A traditional chief in Zimbabwe has ordered that the remains of the country’s former president Robert Mugabe be dug up and reburied at a national cemetery.Mugabe’s successor, President Mnangagwa and others had hoped that he would be buried at the National Heroes Acre in the capital. However, when Mugabe died in 2019, his burial took place in his rural home ...
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On Monday, the military in Mali arrested the country’s president, Bah Ndaw, and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane after a cabinet reshuffle. Reports say that the two, along with Defense Minister Souleymane Doucoure were arrested and taken to Kati, a centre outside Bamako.The circumstances under which the military held them are currently unclear.Former president Boubacar Keita got overthrown in August ...
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Troops have been deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) according to military sources. The reason for their deployment there is to fight and flash out rebel groups intending to destabilize Uganda and cause havoc among civilians. The first troops are said to have been deployed on May 17th in areas of Kasindi, ...
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Adji Sarr is a Senegalese woman who accused the leader of the opposition of rape. She has come to learn in the hardest way possible, the consequences of speaking out about sexual abuse in the conservative West African country. In February, Sarr who is in her early 20s told police that opposition leader Ousmane Sonko forced her to sleep with ...
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During an evacuation in a March air rescue in Mozambique, white people were given preferential treatment over black people. This happened after Islamic State-linked fighters raided the town of Palma. After interviews with 11 black survivors, a report compiled showed that they pulled even dogs to safety ahead of the black people. They hid them in a hotel where they ...
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