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Suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, right, appears at the Code of Conduct Tribunal during his final judgement on corruption allegations in Abuja on Thursday. — AFP
Nigeria’s ex-top judge appeals graft conviction
LAGOS — Nigeria’s former most senior judge who was found guilty of graft charges has appealed his conviction, his lawyers said on Friday.Former chief justice Walter Onnoghen was banned from holding office for 10 years by an ethics court on Thursday in a case the opposition said was politically motivated.Onnoghen was tried for failing to divulge cash in five foreign bank accounts in contravention of rules governing the declaration of assets by public officials.The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT)also ordered the seizure of the funds in the accounts since the embattled judge could not justify how he acquired the money.“In a notice of appeal filed at the Registry of the CCT, shortly after the judgment, Onnoghen raised 16 grounds on which he faulted the decision and urged the Court of...
April 19, 2019

Nigeria’s ex-top judge appeals graft conviction

Villagers are seen following the March 23 attack by militiamen that killed about 160 Fulani people, in Ogossagou Village, Mali, in this March 31, 2019 file photo. —  Reuters
Mali’s government resigns as anger mounts over massacre
BAMAKO — Ethnic violence that has gripped central Mali has led to the downfall of the government, accused of failing to stem bloodshed that has claimed about 600 lives.A statement from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s office late Thursday said he had accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga and his entire Cabinet.Maiga was appointed in December 2017 and renamed to the job only last September, after Keita was re-elected.But he became the lightning rod for anger, led by influential Muslim clerics and vocalized by mass protests, over massacres in the Mopti region, an ethnic mosaic in the center of the country.On Wednesday, lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties submitted a motion of no confidence blaming Maiga and his administration for failing to...
April 19, 2019

Mali’s government resigns as anger mounts over massacre

Sudanese protesters shout slogans during a protest outside the army complex in the capital Khartoum on Thursday. — AFP
Sudan protest leaders to unveil civilian ruling body
KHARTOUM — Protest leaders on Friday announced plans to unveil a civilian body to take over from Sudan’s ruling military council as crowds of demonstrators kept up the pressure outside army headquarters and Washington said it will send an envoy to encourage the transition.The military council, which took power after ousting Sudan’s longtime leader Omar Bashir on April 11, has so far resisted calls from protesters to quickly make way for a civilian administration.The Sudanese Professionals Association, which has been spearheading the protests, said in a statement that the civilian council members would be named at a news conference at 1700 GMT on Sunday outside the army complex to which foreign diplomats are also invited.“We are demanding that this civilian council, which will have...
April 19, 2019

Sudan protest leaders to unveil civilian ruling body

Sudanese protesters wave signs as they continue to protest outside the army complex in the capital Khartoum on Wednesday. — AFP
Bashir moved to prison
Uganda may offer ex-president political asylumKHARTOUM — Deposed ex-Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has been moved to Khartoum’s grim high-security Kobar prison from the presidential residence, family sources said on Wednesday, and transitional military rulers announced steps to crack down on corruption.The Sudanese Professionals’ Association (SPA), leading the revolt, has called for sweeping change to end violent crackdowns on dissent, purge corruption and cronyism and ease an economic crisis that worsened during Bashir’s last years in power.In initial moves to tackle graft, the Transitional Military Council (TMC) ordered the central bank to review financial transfers since April 1 and to seize “suspect” funds, state news agency SUNA said on Wednesday.The TMC also decreed...
April 17, 2019

Bashir moved to prison

A man paints the Sudanese flag on a demonstrator's face in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday. — Reuters
Sudan protesters toughen stand
Khartoum — Sudanese protesters have hardened their stand, demanding a transitional military council be scrapped and immediately replaced with civilian rule as Tuesday they refused to end a days-long sit-in outside army headquarters.Protest leaders have gradually toughened their approach towards the transitional military council, as policy announcements from its uniformed officers have multiplied.Amid widespread anger at the number of faces from the old regime, the protesters secured the replacement of its first chairman, a longtime Bashir loyalist after just 24 hours last week.As weekend talks on the transition failed to make headway, protest leaders who initially demanded a "swift" handover to civilian rule, began demanding first an "immediate" handover then the...
April 16, 2019

Sudan protesters toughen stand

Sudanese demonstrators gather near the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum on Monday. — AFP
Sudan restructures military council
Khartoum — Sudan's military council on Monday said it was restructuring the military command council and appointed Col. Gen. Hashem Abdel Muttalib Ahmed Babakr as army chief of staff.Col. Gen. Mohamed Othman Al-Hussein was appointed as deputy chief of staff, the council said in a statement.But military rulers faced pressure from demonstrators and Western governments to hand power to a new civilian government as activists warned of an attempt to disperse a 10-day-old mass protest outside army headquarters.Thousands remained camped outside the complex in Khartoum overnight after protest leaders issued demands to the military council set up following the ouster of veteran president Omar Al-Bashir.The organization that spearheaded the months of protests leading to Bashir's fall, the...
April 15, 2019

Sudan restructures military council

A woman takes a photograph with her smarphone of a billboard showing a reproduction of a picture of Alaa Salah, a Sudanese woman who has become an icon of the protest movement after a video of her leading demonstrators' chants went viral, in the capital Khartoum. — AFP
Sudan awaits civilian govt
Khartoum — Sudanese protest organizers have presented demands to the country's new military rulers, urging the creation of a civilian government, the group spearheading demonstrations said.Thousands remained encamped outside Khartoum's army headquarters overnight to keep up the pressure on a military council that took power after ousting veteran leader Omar Al-Bashir on Thursday.A 10-member delegation representing the protesters delivered their demands during talks with the council late Saturday, according to a statement by the Alliance for Freedom and Change umbrella group."We will continue... our sit-in until all our demands are met," including the formation of a fully civilian government, said one of the alliance's leaders, Omar al-Degier.The group insists on...
April 14, 2019

Sudan awaits civilian govt

Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan Abdulrahman, new chief of Sudan's ruling military council, addressing the nation on Saturday. — AFP
New head of military council promises civilian government
KHARTOUM — The new head of Sudan's transitional military council said on Saturday that a civilian government would be established after consultations with opposition forces and promised that the transitional period would last for a maximum of two years.In his first televised address, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan Abdulrahman said he was canceling a night curfew ordered by his predecessor and ordered the release of all prisoners jailed under emergency laws ordered by ousted President Omar Al-Bashir.He also vowed to "uproot" the regime of ousted Bashir and its symbols."I announce the restructuring of state institutions according to the law and pledge to fight corruption and uproot the regime and its symbols," Lt. Gen. Burhan said, a day after he was sworn in to...
April 13, 2019

New head of military council promises civilian government

This picture taken on Friday shows a view of a mural painting of Alaa Salah, a Sudanese woman propelled to internet fame after clips went viral of her leading powerful protest chants against President Omar Bashir, painted by a Syrian artists collective called “Kesh Malek” (Checkmate) on the wall of a farmhouse building in the rebel-held Syrian town of Kafranbel in the northwestern Idlib province. — AFP
Sudanese woman in iconic protest image reports getting death threats
NEW YORK — A woman who has come to symbolize protests in Sudan after being photographed chanting atop a car during protests against President Omar Bashir said on Thursday she had received death threats since her image went viral.Clad in white, Alaa Salah can be seen poised above the crowds in Khartoum, where demonstrators gathered to demand the military hand over power to civilians.The ouster on Thursday of Bashir, 75, followed months of protests against his rule.“I wanted to get on the car and speak to the people,” according to a post on a Twitter account for Salah, 22, an engineering and architecture student at Sudan International University.“We need international support, for people to be aware of what’s happening and to understand our demands.”The post praised the role of...
April 12, 2019

Sudanese woman in iconic protest image reports getting death threats

Security officers question civilians at a roadblock near the scene where gunmen abducted two Cuban doctors as they were going to work, in Mandera county, Kenya, on Friday. — Reuters
Two Cuban doctors in Kenya kidnapped by suspected jihadists
NAIROBI — Suspected Somali Al-Shabaab militants kidnapped two Cuban doctors in northeastern Kenya on Friday and killed their police escort officer, officials said.The operation happened as the two doctors — a general practitioner and a surgeon —were on the way to work in the town of Mandera, close to the border with Somalia.“Today at around 9:00 a.m., suspected Al-Shabaab militants abducted the two Cuban doctors stationed at the Mandera County Referral Hospital,” the county’s governor, Ali Roba said in a statement.Kenyan police spokesman Charles Owino said the assailants used two Toyota Probox cars to block the vehicle that the doctors were travelling in.One of the two police officers escorting them “was shot by the attackers and died on the spot. The attackers succeeded to...
April 12, 2019

Two Cuban doctors in Kenya kidnapped by suspected jihadists

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