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People queue to shop at a supermarket in Harare, Zimbabwe, January 16, 2019. — Reuters
Zimbabwe warns of power cuts as dam levels fall, ageing plants stutter 
HARARE — Zimbabwe's state-owned power utility on Thursday warned it may ration electricity supplies as low water levels reduce output from its biggest hydro plant, while ageing coal-fired generators are shuttered or running at reduced capacity.Power cuts would hit the mining sector — which contributes more than two thirds of Zimbabwe’s export earnings — hardest, adding to difficulties in a country already grappling with a lack of US dollars, soaring prices and shortages of fuel, food and medicines.The southern African nation, which experienced its worst power shortages in 2016 following a devastating drought, was producing 915 MW on Thursday against peak demand of 2,100 MW.Kariba Power Station, which is already operating at half capacity, will reduce generation further to 358...
May 09, 2019

Zimbabwe warns of power cuts as dam levels fall, ageing plants stutter 

Voters queue to cast their ballots as night falls outside a polling station in Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday. — Reuters
South Africa’s ANC seen winning election but support faltering
JOHANNESBURG/CAPE TOWN — South Africans voting in a national election on Wednesday expressed frustration at rampant corruption, high unemployment and racial inequalities that persist 25 years after the first all-races poll marked the end of white minority rule.The vote for a new parliament and nine provincial legislatures is the toughest electoral test yet for the African National Congress, which has ruled South Africa since that 1994 vote. Nelson Mandela’s former liberation party is hoping to reverse or at least arrest a slide in support.“I’m a member of the ANC but I didn’t vote for them this time,” said construction worker Thabo Makhene, 32, in the commercial hub of Johannesburg.“They need to catch a wake-up. The way they run the state, mishandling state funds, they’ve...
May 08, 2019

South Africa’s ANC seen winning election but support faltering

People queue to withdraw money from an automated teller machine, ATM, in Khartoum, Sudan, on Tuesday. — Reuters
Sudan’s protest coalition calls for civil disobedience campaign
KHARTOUM — Sudanese protest and opposition leaders on Wednesday called for a campaign of civil disobedience in response to what one of them described as the military’s “disappointing” answer to their proposals for an interim government.This could put the protesters and the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) on a collision course following weeks of wrangling over how to manage an interim period after the ousting of long-ruling President Omar Bashir from office.“We call for and prepare for civil disobedience,” Madani Abbas Madani, a leader of the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF), told a news conference in Khartoum.The DFCF, the opposition groups’ umbrella body, did not give details of what it planned. But the DFCF has led work strikes, marches, protest...
May 08, 2019

Sudan’s protest coalition calls for civil disobedience campaign

A Sudanese opposition supporter waves a national flag during a sit-in outside the army headquarters in Khartoum. — AFP
Sudanese protesters call for civil disobedience
KHARTOUM —Sudanese protest and opposition leaders called on Wednesday for civil disobedience in response to what they described as the military's "disappointing" response to their constitutional proposals."We call for and prepare for civil disobedience," Madani Abbas Madani, a leader of the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF), told a news conference in Khartoum.Protest leaders on Wednesday accused Sudan's military rulers of delaying the transfer of power to a civilian administration, amid disagreements over the country's new governance structure after president Omar Al-Bahir's ouster.The two sides are grappling over whether an overall ruling council should have a civilian or military majority.Last week the Alliance for Freedom and Change...
May 08, 2019

Sudanese protesters call for civil disobedience

People queue to withdraw money from an automated teller machine, ATM, in Khartoum. — Reuters
Sudan army rulers delaying transition to civil rule: protest leaders
Khartoum — Sudanese protest leaders Wednesday accused the military rulers of delaying the transfer of power to a civilian administration, amid disagreements between the two sides over the country's new governance structure."The military council's response... is moving in the direction of extending the negotiation and not in the direction of transition" of power, the Alliance for Freedom and Change said in a statement. — AFP
May 08, 2019

Sudan army rulers delaying transition to civil rule: protest leaders

A Sudanese protester carrying a mock-camera interviews a fellow protester outside Sudan's army headquarters in Khartoum.  -AFP
Protesters slam Sudan state media for coverage blackout
By MENNA ZAKIKHARTOUM - Grasping an empty plastic bottle that stands in for a microphone, young Sudanese protester Abu Bakr Marghani pretends to be a journalist interviewing demonstrators at Khartoum’s sit-in outside the army complex.The would-be correspondent is cheered by his small crew each time he thrusts the device in front of a peer and asks a question.“We mean to poke fun at Sudanese state media who did not take our side during the protests,” said Marghani, 18.“They did not cover it at all - only foreign media did,” he said, as one of his buddies holds a wooden stick with a plastic cup dangling from one end, in a creative attempt to mimic an adjustable boom mic.Another friend carries a cardboard box on his shoulder as if it’s a video camera, complete with the scribbled...
May 08, 2019

Protesters slam Sudan state media for coverage blackout

Sudanese volunteers prepare meals for protesters during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in front of the defense ministry compound in Khartoum, Sudan, on Tuesday. — Reuters
Sudan military rulers want Shariah law to guide legislation under interim government
KHARTOUM — Sudan’s military rulers said on Tuesday they generally agreed with proposals made by protest leaders on the structure of an interim government, but want Islamic Shariah laws and local norms to guide legislation.Protesters whose months of street demonstrations helped force longtime President Omar Bashir from office last month have kept up their demands for change, calling on the military officers who took over to hand over power to civilians.Responding to a draft constitutional document presented by a coalition of protest groups and political parties, the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) noted that the document omitted Shariah law.hOur view is that Islamic Sharia and the local norms and traditions in the Republic of Sudan should be the sources of legislation,” TMC...
May 08, 2019

Sudan military rulers want Shariah law to guide legislation under interim government

Residents look at a calcined tanker truck after an explosion which killed more than 55 people near the airport of Niamey on Monday. — AFP
Tanker truck fuel blast kills 58 in Niger
NIAMEY — Fifty-eight people died in Niger’s capital Niamey after an overturned tanker truck exploded as crowds collected spilled fuel, authorities and witnesses said on Monday.The blast on the RN1 route near the international airport on Sunday night left the burned truck’s wreckage, motorbikes and debris scattered over the road. Nearby houses were damaged by fire.The explosion left 58 dead, the presidency said in a statement.“Motorbike riders and people were all around the truck when it exploded all of a sudden,” a local trader said. “I saw at least 40 dead.”Witnesses said people were trying to collect petrol leaking from the truck, which had overturned on railway tracks, when the explosion happened.“Just before midnight I went out and I saw the truck overturned. People...
May 06, 2019

Tanker truck fuel blast kills 58 in Niger

Sudanese protesters attend a demonstration in front of the defense ministry compound in Khartoum, Sudan, on Sunday. — Reuters
At Khartoum sit-in, protesters dream of a new Sudan
KHARTOUM — They brave the sweltering summer heat and the accompanying dust to pursue their dream: building a new Sudan.While some protesters at a weeks-long sit-in outside Khartoum’s army headquarters dare to hope for democracy, others say they will be content just to secure a prosperous future.But they agree on one goal: a Sudan that is free of militants, who one protester said “destroyed the country”.Thirty years after coming to power in a 1989 coup that toppled a democratic government, President Omar Bashir was deposed on April 11.Despite his departure, protesters have continued to camp outside the vast Khartoum military base to insist that the military council which replaced him hand power to civilians.Hundreds walk each morning along the major boulevard that runs alongside the...
May 06, 2019

At Khartoum sit-in, protesters dream of a new Sudan

 President of South Africa's governing African National Congress Cyril Ramaphosa waves to his supporters, as he arrives for the party's final rally at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa on May 5.  REUTERS
South Africa’s Ramaphosa faces obstacles to reform
By ALEXANDER WINNINGJOHANNESBURG - Even with a decisive election victory for South Africa’s ruling party this week, the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa could still struggle to push through the tough reforms needed to galvanize Africa’s most developed economy, say analysts and some party insiders.The former union leader turned business tycoon has promised to introduce major economic reforms and extend a crackdown on corruption if his African National Congress (ANC) party is returned to power in Wednesday’s national election. Ramaphosa’s allies say a result close to 60 percent in this week’s parliamentary vote, which some opinion polls suggest could be possible, would strengthen his hand to deliver on those pledges.But some analysts and ANC party insiders are skeptical that...
May 06, 2019

South Africa’s Ramaphosa faces obstacles to reform

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