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Malawi President Peter Mutharika. - Courtesy photo
Malawians vote in tough election for President Mutharika
By FRANK PHIRIBLANTYRE/LILONGWE, MALAWI — Malawians headed to polling stations on Tuesday for presidential and legislative elections seen as a tough test for President Peter Mutharika, who is facing challenges from the deputy president and a former pastor who heads the opposition.Malawi is heavily dependent on foreign aid and is frequently beset by droughts which threaten the lives of thousands of people.Former law professor Mutharika, 78, oversaw infrastructure improvements and a sharp reduction in inflation in his first five-year term, but critics accuse him of corruption and cronyism.Mutharika refutes those accusations.Reuters reporters saw voters casting ballots in Blantyre and Lilongwe, two of the largest cities in the southern African country."I have a strong feeling that the...
May 21, 2019

Malawians vote in tough election for President Mutharika

Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba
Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba named as Congo prime minister
KINSHASA — Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba, a career politician and ally of former President Joseph Kabila, was appointed as Democratic Republic of Congo’s prime minister on Monday, the government said in a statement.Ilukamba was previously the head of Congo’s national railway company, known as the SNCC, and has served in various government posts since the 1970s, according to an official biography released on Monday.Felix Tshisekedi won long-delayed presidential elections in Dec. 30, 2018, defeating a candidate officially backed by Kabila, whose own term limit was up.Opposition politicians say the result was rigged in a secret deal between Kabila’s and Tshisekedi’s camps under which Kabila would officially step down but maintain control, a charge they both denied.Forming a new...
May 20, 2019

Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba named as Congo prime minister

General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and deputy head of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) delivers an address after the Ramadan prayers and Iftar organized by Sultan of Darfur Ahmed Hussain in Khartoum, Sudan, on Saturday. — Reuters
Sudanese military and opposition resume talks after street violence
KHARTOUM — Sudan's ruling military council said it had restarted talks late on Sunday with an alliance of protest and opposition groups that is pushing for a civilian-led transition to democracy.The Transitional Military Council (TMC) had suspended the talks late on Wednesday after two outbreaks of violence around protest sites in the capital Khartoum.Street protests and a sit-in outside the Defense Ministry have continued since the army ousted and arrested former President Omar Bashir on April 11.Demonstrators are calling for a rapid transition to civilian rule, and demanding justice over the deaths of dozens of people killed since protests triggered by an economic crisis and decades of repressive rule spread across Sudan from Dec. 19.The TMC and the Declaration of Freedom and...
May 20, 2019

Sudanese military and opposition resume talks after street violence

Buildings damaged during Cyclone Kenneth are seen from the air in a village north of Pemba, Mozambique, May 1. - Reuters
At disaster forum, storm-hit Mozambique says will seek help to build back better
By MEGAN ROWLINGGENEVA - Mozambique, which was battered by two cyclones in March and April, will hold an international conference in two weeks' time to drum up funding to help it build back stronger, its vice-minister for state administration said Friday."What we have learned from these cyclones (is) we need to build new infrastructure but resilient," Albano Macie told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the sidelines of a global conference on preventing disasters, which ended Friday.Mozambique hopes to attract donors, development banks and aid agencies with cash and technical expertise to the conference May 31 to June 1 in the devastated port city of Beira.Its redevelopment plans include resettling families away from risky areas and rebuilding power grids, water supplies and...
May 18, 2019

At disaster forum, storm-hit Mozambique says will seek help to build back better

Civilians leave the scene of an explosion in KM4 street in the Hodan district of Mogadishu on October 14, 2017. — Reuters file photo
UN says Somali militants using home-made explosives to step up attacks
By Katharine HoureldNAIROBI — Somali insurgents are making their own explosives, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters, as they mount more frequent and deadly attacks.The findings are a blow for internationally backed efforts to fight the Al Shabaab insurgency, which has repeatedly carried out attacks in East Africa and launched dozens in Somalia this year despite a dramatic increase in US air strikes."For the first time, post-blast laboratory analyses ... indicate a clear shift in Al Shabaab construction methods, away from the use of military-grade explosives and towards HME (home-made explosives," said a confidential report by the U.N. panel of experts on Somalia, which was seen by Reuters."Information from a range of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)...
May 17, 2019

UN says Somali militants using home-made explosives to step up attacks

Sudanese protesters burn tires and barricade the road leading to Al-Mek Nimir Bridge crossing over Blue Nile; that links Khartoum North and Khartoum. — Reuters
Sudan military council, opposition inch closer to final deal
KHARTOUM — Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the opposition Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF) agreed the country's transition period would last for three years, a TMC member said on Wednesday, adding a final deal on the transition would be reached within 24 hours.Lieutenant General Yasser Al-Atta also said DFCF will have two-thirds of the seats on a transitional legislative council and parties that are not part of the alliance will take the rest.Satea Al-Hajj, a DFCF member, said: "The viewpoints are close and, God willing, we will reach an agreement soon" on the composition of a new sovereign council that would lead the country until elections.The TMC had said the transition would last a maximum of two years, and the DFCF wanted it to last...
May 15, 2019

Sudan military council, opposition inch closer to final deal

 President Cyril Ramaphosa waves to supporters of his ruling African National Congress (ANC) at an election victory rally in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 12. - Reuters
South Africa's Ramaphosa says to speed up economic reforms, fix Eskom
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday the government will speed up economic reforms to revive an ailing economy and attract foreign investors, after his African National Congress party won re-election.Analysts have said boosting South African growth and overhauling debt-laden power firm Eskom were post-election priorities for the ANC, after a decade of slow growth and rising joblessness."We have to embark on the reforms, speed up on them," Ramaphosa told investors in Johannesburg."(Last year) we embarked on an economic recovery stimulus package and we identified a number of reform issues that we needed to address, we are now going to do that with greater speed. We are going to ensure that the certainty that investors want to see is...
May 15, 2019

South Africa's Ramaphosa says to speed up economic reforms, fix Eskom

Sudanese protesters burn tires and barricade the road leading to Al-Mek Nimir Bridge crossing over Blue Nile that links Khartoum North and Khartoum in Sudan on Monday. — Reuters
Clashes in Sudan’s capital after deal on transitional power structure
KHARTOUM — Violence flared in Sudan’s capital Khartoum late on Monday after the military council and opposition groups said they had agreed to a power structure for the country’s transition following the ouster of President Omar Bashir last month.Heavy gunfire was heard late into the evening, and the council said a military police officer had been killed and many protesters wounded. Local doctors said some were in serious condition.The council accused armed groups unhappy with progress toward a political deal of opening fire at protest sites. Protesters said counterrevolutionaries linked to the former regime were inciting violence.Earlier, paramilitary forces patrolled the streets, using tear gas and gunshots to disrupt protests blocking roads.The Transitional Military Council (TMC)...
May 14, 2019

Clashes in Sudan’s capital after deal on transitional power structure

Workers from China’s Sinohydro Corp. are seen outside the Kariba South hydro electric power plant in Kariba, Zimbabwe, in this March 27, 2018 file photo. — Reuters
Zimbabwe faces worst power cuts in 3 years, mines hit
HARARE — Zimbabwe’s state power utility imposed the worst rolling blackouts in three years on Monday, with households and industries including mines set to be without electricity for up to eight hours daily.The power cuts could stoke mounting public anger against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government as Zimbabweans grapple with an economic crisis that has seen shortages of US dollars used as the official currency, fuel, food and medicines as well as soaring inflation that is eroding earnings and savings.Many Zimbabweans say life is getting harder and that Mnangagwa is failing to deliver on pre-election promises last year to rebuild an economy shattered during Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule.“There is no fuel and now we don’t have electricity, this is just too much,” said...
May 13, 2019

Zimbabwe faces worst power cuts in 3 years, mines hit

Sudanese protesters burn tires and barricade the road leading to Al-Mek Nimir Bridge crossing over Blue Nile that links Khartoum North and Khartoum in Sudan in this May 13, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
Sudan’s military and opposition agree on transitional power structure
KHARTOUM — Sudan’s military council and opposition groups have agreed to a power structure for the country’s transition but have yet to decide how long it will last or the make-up of transitional bodies, the council’s spokesman said on Monday.The military-civilian balance of power and the length of the transition have been key sticking points in talks between the council and an alliance of protest and opposition groups since former President Omar Bashir was ousted on April 11.Those points will be addressed on Tuesday, according to Transitional Military Council (TMC) spokesman Lieutenant General Shams El Din Kabbashi and Taha Osman Ishaq, a spokesman for the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces opposition alliance.Protesters are pushing for a civilian-led transition and have...
May 13, 2019

Sudan’s military and opposition agree on transitional power structure

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