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Uganda’s anti-riot policemen stand guard in front of the house of Ugandan musician turned politician, Robert Kyagulanyi, commonly known by his stage name Bobi Wine in Kampala, on April 23, 2019. — AFP
Ugandan pop star opposition MP arrested again
KAMPALA — Ugandan police arrested pop star turned MP Bobi Wine on Monday, barely two days after lifting the house arrest of one of the potential challengers to veteran President Yoweri Museveni, one of his lawyers and a police spokesman said.Wine, at 37, is the figurehead of a new generation who grew up under Museveni but want to see change and his anti-government songs have helped win him a big following.Police arrested him after he answered a summons to the Criminal Investigations Directorate on Monday morning, said one of his lawyers, Asuman Basalirwa.“This time we have not been informed why he has been detained,” he added.Wine entered parliament in 2017. One of his songs contains the lyric “freedom fighters become dictators,” while others hint that Museveni has stayed in...
April 29, 2019

Ugandan pop star opposition MP arrested again

Residents push a car through the floods in Mazive, southern Mozambique, on Sunday. — AFP
Dozens killed as floods worsen in Mozambique after second cyclone
PEMBA, Mozambique — Heavy rain battered northern Mozambique on Monday as residents and relief workers confronted the widespread devastation wrought by Cyclone Kenneth, the strongest cyclone to ever hit Africa, which killed 38 people and destroyed thousands of homes.Roads have been washed away, fields submerged and many buildings wrecked by the storm, which came weeks after Cyclone Idai hit the Mozambican city of Beira, 1,000 km to the south.Cyclone Kenneth made landfall late on Thursday in Cabo Delgado province, packing wind gusts of up to 220 km per hour.The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described it as the strongest cyclone to ever lash the continent, and predicted further heavy rain over the coming days.“Cyclone Kenneth made landfall at the end of the...
April 29, 2019

Dozens killed as floods worsen in Mozambique after second cyclone

Sudanese protesters wave the current and former national flags during a rally outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum. — AFP
Sudan army rulers agree to form a joint civilian-military council
Khartoum — Sudanese protesters Sunday welcomed a breakthrough in talks with army rulers who agreed to form a joint civilian-military council, paving the way for the civilian administration demanded by demonstrators.Saturday’s agreement would replace the existing 10-member military council that took power after the army ousted veteran leader Omar Al-Bashir on April 11 amid massive protests.“What happened yesterday is a step to have a civilian authority,” said Mohamed Amin, one of thousands of demonstrators who have been camped for weeks outside the army headquarters.“We are happy about the progress in the talks, but we are still waiting for the composition of the council and the civilian government.”The joint civilian-military council will be the overall ruling body, while a new...
April 28, 2019

Sudan army rulers agree to form a joint civilian-military council

A woman arrives to vote at the Agla East State primary school in Cotonou on Sunday. — AFP
Benin votes, with not many choices
COTONOU — The people of Benin voted on Sunday for a new parliament but without a single opposition candidate to choose from, as rights groups warn of a crackdown in a country once seen as a model for democracy.When polls opened at 7:00am (0600 GMT), voters in the small West African state were given the choice to select their 83 members of parliament from two parties both allied to President Patrice Talon.In the run-up to polling, protests have been broken up by force. Late on Saturday, some roads were blocked by angry demonstrators in opposition areas.Internet access was tightly restricted with blocks on the main social media and messaging apps.Five million people are registered to vote, but on Sunday morning, turnout was slow at voting booths in the economic capital Cotonou.The main...
April 28, 2019

Benin votes, with not many choices

Residents walk past Macomia's heavily defended government quarter where two mature Baobab trees fell on Sunday during Cyclone Kenneth destroying the pavement. — AFP
Mozambique families count the cost of Cyclone Kenneth
MACOMIA, Mozambique — Soaking mattresses, bent corrugated iron sheets, some wooden chairs and two slender chickens are about all that Assan Madal and his wife Maria Mendosa were able salvage from the wreckage of their wood and mud home.They laid out all their possessions neatly around a murky puddle, as their five children looked on quietly, and the chickens pecked for food in thick clumps of mud.Mendosa, 37, cooked cassava paste on a small wood fire and her husband picked through the devastation wrought by Cyclone Kenneth on Nacate, a village of a few hundred people in Mozambique's far north."We were inside the room, and the roof started to fly, and then the house fell apart because it was it was a mud house," said Madal, 62."Now we are sleeping under the palm trees....
April 28, 2019

Mozambique families count the cost of Cyclone Kenneth

A group of Sudanese boys interview protesters with a fake camera and microphone acting like journalists during an a sit-in outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum on Saturday.  — AFP
Sudan sit-in to continue
KHARTOUM — Sudan’s leading opposition figure and former prime minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi called on Saturday to the continuation of the sit-in until all the people’s goals are met.In a press conference, Mahdi said: “We call for the continuation of the sit-in until all the people’s goals are met.”Mahdi, Sudan’s last democratically elected premier also expressed appreciation for the Transitional Military Council respect for the opposition’s role, saying: “We seek to agree with the military council on the constitutional declaration.”The top opposition leader also called for Sudan to join the International Criminal Court which has indicted its ousted president Omar Al-Bashir.Mahdi also told reporters that the army’s ouster of Bashir was “not a military coup”.His comments...
April 27, 2019

Sudan sit-in to continue

A destroyed house in Macomia district in Mozambique. The back-to-back cyclones that have ravaged Mozambique are unprecedented in recorded history, the UN said on, as it planned to examine the country's defenses against extreme weather in the light of climate change. — AFP
Cyclone Kenneth wreaks havoc on Mozambique
BEIRA, Mozambique — A powerful cyclone pounded northern Mozambique on Friday, leaving one person dead and wrecking homes and communications, barely a month after the country was hit by one of the worst storms in its history.Cyclone Kenneth, a Category Three storm on the hurricane scale, made landfall in Cabo Delgado province late Thursday after swiping the Comoros islands.By mid-Friday, its peak winds of 160 km an hour had fallen back to about 70 kph, according to the national meteorological institute.But heavy rains were forecast over the next 24 hours, fueling the risks of floods and mudslides in the poor region.Mozambique's emergency agency, the INGC, reported a death caused by a falling coconut tree in the port city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado's provincial capital, along with...
April 27, 2019

Cyclone Kenneth wreaks havoc on Mozambique

Sudanese protesters wave national flags as they chant slogans during an a sit-in outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum on Friday. — AFP
Sudan protesters keep up campaign for civilian rule
KHARTOUM — Thousands of Sudanese protesters performed the weekly Muslim prayers outside army headquarters on Friday, a day after a vast crowd of demonstrators flooded Khartoum to demand the military rulers cede power.Protesters have massed outside the army complex in central Khartoum since April 6, initially to demand the overthrow of longtime leader Omar Bashir.But since his ouster by the army on April 11, the protesters have kept up their sit-in, demanding the military council that took over hand power to a civilian administration.Despite international support for the protesters, the 10-member council has so far resisted, although three of its members resigned on Wednesday under pressure from the street.The resignations triggered jubilation among the protesters, who massed in their...
April 26, 2019

Sudan protesters keep up campaign for civilian rule

People stand by damaged houses and fallen trees on Thursday in Moroni after tropical storm Kenneth hit Comoros before heading to recently cyclone-ravaged Mozambique. — AFP
First death as powerful cyclone smashes into Mozambique
MAPUTO — A powerful cyclone smashed into northern Mozambique, leaving one person dead on Friday, barely a month after a super-storm hit the center of the country, devastating the area and leaving hundreds dead.Category three Cyclone Kenneth, packing winds of 160 km an hour, struck the north coast’s Cabo Delgado province late Thursday after swiping the Comoros islands.The United Nations warned of flash flooding and landslides as Mozambique’s emergency agency the INGC reported one person was killed by a falling coconut tree in the port city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado’s provincial capital.On the tourist island of Ibo, 90 percent of homes for the 6,000 population had been flattened, according to a spokesman for the agency, Antonio Beleza.“I don’t expect to find my hotel undamaged,”...
April 26, 2019

First death as powerful cyclone smashes into Mozambique

Sudanese protesters wave the national flag during a “million-strong” march outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum on Thursday. — AFP
Huge crowd floods Khartoum pushing for Sudan handover
KHARTOUM — Tens of thousands of protesters converged from all directions on Sudan’s army headquarters Thursday after calls for a “million-strong” demonstration to demand the ruling military council cede power.The day after three council members resigned following talks with protest organizers, demonstrators flocked toward the central Khartoum site on Thursday evening, beating drums and singing revolutionary songs, said a journalist at the scene.“We want the military council out. We want a civilian government,” said protester Adam Ahmed, a medical student.The rally came after Sudan’s new military rulers and protest leaders agreed to set up a joint committee, to chart the way forward two weeks after the ouster of veteran president Omar al-Bashir.The Alliance for Freedom and...
April 25, 2019

Huge crowd floods Khartoum pushing for Sudan handover

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