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A Sudanese protester gestures as another waves a national flag during a demonstration in front of  the defense ministry compound in Khartoum on Friday. — Reuters
Unbowed Sudanese protesters vow to campaign during Ramadan
KHARTOUM — Defiant Sudanese protester Ahmed Hamid insists nothing can stop him campaigning for the army to relinquish power — not even the start next week of strength-sapping fasting during Muslim holy month Ramadan.Demonstrators remain camped out in the soaring heat of Khartoum calling for civilian rule three weeks after the military ousted veteran leader Omar Bashir.“We cut the head and part of the body is still there and holding the head of this president,” Hamid, 21, said on Friday at the sprawling protest site.“We will stay fasting here the whole of Ramadan and even after Ramadan until we meet our demand.”Sudan has been rocked by months of nationwide protests that initially targeted Bashir’s 30-year rule, accusing the leader and his regime of running the country’s...
May 03, 2019

Unbowed Sudanese protesters vow to campaign during Ramadan

Sudanese chant slogans as they gather during a demonstration outside the army headquarters in Khartoum on Thursday. — AFP
Huge crowds join sit-in outside Sudan’s defense ministry
KHARTOUM — Hundreds of thousands of protesters joined a sit-in outside Sudan’s defense ministry on Thursday to press the ruling military council to hand over power to a civilian government.The huge crowd was answering a call by an alliance of activists and opposition groups to join a protest march through Khartoum.The Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF) alliance said on Thursday it had submitted a draft constitutional document containing its vision for the transitional period to the Transitional Military Council (TMC).Protesters and activists have been negotiating with the TMC to form a joint civilian-military body to oversee the period following the forced departure of long-term President Omar Bashir.But the parties are deadlocked over who would control the new council,...
May 02, 2019

Huge crowds join sit-in outside Sudan’s defense ministry

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir attends a medals awarding ceremony for long serving servicemen of the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in the Bilpam, military headquarters in Juba, South Sudan, in this Jan. 24, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
South Sudan adversaries meet in bid to save peace deal
ADDIS ABABA — South Sudan’s rival parties began two days of talks in Addis Ababa on Thursday in a bid to salvage a peace deal, with just days left before a unity government is meant to be formed.President Salva Kiir, rebel leader Riek Machar and a handful of other groups inked the peace deal in September 2018, the latest in a string of efforts to end a devastating conflict now in its sixth year.But the parties have failed to resolve several crunch issues before a power-sharing government is to be installed on May 12.Representatives of the parties gathered in Addis for a meeting called by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional bloc for East Africa, holding prayers before going into a closed session.Government has insisted the meeting focus on how to push...
May 02, 2019

South Sudan adversaries meet in bid to save peace deal

Supporters of Ugandan musician turned politician, Robert Kyagulanyi a.k.a. Bobi Wine react as he gestures attending a court via video link in Kampala on Thursday. — AFP
Ugandan pop star and critic of President Museveni freed on bail
KAMPALA — Bobi Wine, a Ugandan pop star and lawmaker who is seeking to challenge veteran leader Yoweri Museveni for the presidency, was freed on bail on Thursday after spending two days in jail on charges of staging unlawful protests.Magistrate Esther Nahirya granted bail after hearing Wine’s application, but told him he would be returned to jail if he engaged in unlawful demonstrations while free.Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has rattled authorities with a fast-growing base of supporters who are electrified by his combination of music and biting criticism of Museveni.He was jailed after being charged with several offenses stemming from his championing a demonstration against taxes on social media usage last year.Wine told the court after submissions by his attorneys that...
May 02, 2019

Ugandan pop star and critic of President Museveni freed on bail

Sudan’s top opposition leader and former prime minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi, whose elected government was toppled in a 1989 coup, speaks during an interview at his residence in Omdourman, Sudan, on Wednesday. — AFP
Don’t provoke army, Sudan opposition chief warns protesters
OMDOURMAN, Sudan — Sudan’s main opposition leader on Wednesday warned protest leaders against any provocation of the country’s army rulers, saying they will soon hand power to a civilian administration as demanded by demonstrators.“We shouldn’t provoke the army council by trying to deprive them of their legitimacy, by depriving them of their positive role in the revolution,” National Umma Party chief Sadiq Al-Mahdi said in an interview.“We must not challenge them in a way that makes it necessary for them to assert themselves in a different way,” the veteran politician said.Al-Mahdi’s elected government was toppled by now deposed President Omar Bashir in a coup in 1989.Since then Al-Mahdi has fought Bashir politically, and in January threw his weight behind the protest...
May 01, 2019

Don’t provoke army, Sudan opposition chief warns protesters

A Sudanese protester with the national flag of Sudan painted on her face, flashes the victory sign during a sit-in outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum on Wednesday. — AFP
Sudan council gets 60-day deadline
CAIRO — The African Union said on Tuesday that Sudan’s military rulers should hand over power to a civilian-led transitional authority within 60 days.In a statement, the AU said it noted “with deep regret” that the military had not stepped aside and handed power to civilians within a 15-day period set by the AU last month.The 60 days were a final extension for Sudan’s Transitional Military Council to hand over power to civilians, the AU said.Meanwhile, the UAE said Wednesday it supported an “orderly” transition in Sudan.“Totally legitimate for Arab states to support an orderly and stable transition in Sudan,” the UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, said on Twitter. “One that carefully calibrates popular aspirations with institutional stability....
May 01, 2019

Sudan council gets 60-day deadline

Female truck drivers stand at the Ladybird Logistics meeting point before the start of the workday in Takoradi, western Ghana. AFP
Female lorry drivers change gears in Ghana
BY STACEY KNOTTTAKORADI, GHANA - Rumbling along the rutted roads of Ghana at the wheel of her giant truck, Abigail Asumadu-Amoah turns heads but keeps her focus.She is one of 21 drivers working for Ladybird Logistics, a company that claims to be “the first company globally to employ only female drivers.”In a tough industry dominated by men, the women are changing attitudes.“What men can do, women can also do,” said Asumadu-Amoah, who hopes other women will be inspired by their achievement. “It’s (a question of) determination.”Ladybird’s all-women team drive 47,000-litre trucks, delivering fuel to Ghana’s gold mines.But for Asumadu-Amoah, 44, the biggest challenges she faces are the state of the pot-holed roads in the West African country.“Drive defensively and...
May 01, 2019

Female lorry drivers change gears in Ghana

Polling officials check ballots before voting at a polling station during the elections for a new parliament in Cotonou in this April 28, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Record low turnout at Benin polls with no opposition
COTONOU — Benin’s electoral commission has announced the results of controversial elections that were held without any opposition candidates and saw a record low turnout just under 23 percent.All candidates contesting the April 28 vote came from just two parties, the Republican Bloc and the Progressive Union, both allied to President Patrice Talon.The small West African state was long held up as a model for democracy, but the main opposition parties were effectively barred from fielding candidates by tough new eligibility rules.Many citizens heeded opposition party calls to boycott the polls.The election commission announced late on Tuesday that 22.99 percent of the almost five million eligible voters had cast ballots.Turnout had never previously been below 50 percent since the...
May 01, 2019

Record low turnout at Benin polls with no opposition

Aid is unloaded off a truck and taken to a waiting World Food Programme (WFP) helicopter to be deliver to Ibo Island and Quissanga in northern Mozambique on Tuesday. — AFP
As rains break, aid workers rush to reach Mozambique cyclone victims
MAPUTO — Aid workers in northern Mozambique scrambled planes and helicopters packed with aid to communities cut off, sometimes without any supplies, for at least two days after Cyclone Kenneth brought torrential rain to the region.Kenneth slammed into Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, flattening entire villages and bringing relentless downpours that grounded aid operations and turned streets in the port city of Pemba to rivers.More rain was expected on Tuesday, and aid workers raced to mobilize before it started again.A light plane was on its way to Matemo island with medical supplies while a helicopter was moving food and health provisions to the mainland district of Quissanga, the United Nations (UN) said via WhatsApp and on Twitter.After...
April 30, 2019

As rains break, aid workers rush to reach Mozambique cyclone victims

Sudanese protesters walk between barricades on a road leading to the defense ministry compound in Khartoum on Tuesday. — Reuters
Sudan protesters call mass rally as tensions rise
KHARTOUM — Sudan’s leading protest group called on Tuesday for a mass rally, as tensions mounted over the makeup of a new joint civilian-military council to run the country.Demonstrators reinforced their barricades outside the army headquarters in Khartoum after the two sides failed to agree on the number of council seats for civilian and military representatives.The joint council is supposed to replace the military body that took power after the army ousted veteran President Omar Bashir on April 11 in the face of mass protests against his three-decade rule.But the two sides are at odds over its composition, with the military pushing for a 10-member council including seven military representatives and three civilians.The disagreements prompted the Alliance for Freedom and Change to...
April 30, 2019

Sudan protesters call mass rally as tensions rise

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