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[RFI] A number of high-ranking members of Omar al Bashir's now-dissolved National Congress party (NCP), including its former leader, Ibrahim Gandour, were released by military authorities as demonstrators continued to take to the streets to protest the military coup.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Ethiopia says it will start filling the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in July, after Sudan rejected a request for a partial agreement without Egypt.
On May 13, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, in a letter to his Ethiopian counterpart, Dr Abiy Ahmed, said the issues regarding the dam need a tripartite agreement between Khartoum, Addis Ababa and Cairo, before the first filling.
The tripartite negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have stalled since February, when Ethiopia boycotted the talks accusing Sudan of using the US to put pressure on them.
Egypt now wants the issue be decided based on international law, and has reached out to the US, the Arab League and the UN to put pressure on Ethiopia.
Last week, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, wrote a letter to the UN Security Council about Ethiopia’s unilateral move to fill the dam outside the tripartite discussions.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The G7 Ambassadors in Tunisia Monday stressed the need for «a swift return to a constitutional order, in which an elected parliament plays a significant role».
Analysis - The soldiers who ousted Guinean President Alpha Conde have moved quickly to quash any resistance. Guineans have mixed feelings about the coup, while analysts say Conde is partly to blame for the situation.
Khartoum — On Thursday, the gardens of the Republican Palace in Khartoum witnessed a symbolic vigil in commemoration of the violent dismantling of the sit-in in front of the army command in Khartoum on June 3 last year, in which more than 100 people were killed.
'Achieving justice will not frighten anyone, but will help to strengthen this transitional period, and create a solid climate for building a democratic state' - Abdallah Hamdok
During the ceremony on Thursday, Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok stated that the perpetrators must be held accountable.
\"The main goals of the December revolution were 'freedom, peace, and justice', therefore, achieving justice will not frighten anyone, but will help to strengthen this transitional period, and create a solid climate for building a democratic state.\"
According to a detailed first investigation report of the Sudanese Archive and the Human Rights Center Investigation Lab, UC Berkeley, members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), commanded by the deputy president of the Sovereign Councuil, Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan 'Hemeti', and other security forces are to be held accountable for the violent dispersal of sit-ins across Khartoum in June last year.
The US State Department issued a statement on Wednesday, June 3, in which it expressed its support and solidarity with the Sudanese people in their quest to achieve justice and democracy.
As it battles mounting cases of coronavirus, Sudan is grappling with acute medicine shortages at a time of economic woes largely blamed on the policies of ousted president Omar al-Bashir.
Healthcare providers have reported shortages of basic medications in pharmacies and hospitals, while patients suffering from critical diseases struggle to find drugs.
\"I've been looking for my medicine for three days, and I still can't find it,\" Abdul Aziz Adam, who has asthma, told AFP outside a Khartoum pharmacy.
\"Sudan needs to import medicine at (a rate of) $55 million a month,\" said Jalal Mohammed Ahmed, who runs a pharmaceuticals import company.
In a March report, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Sudan's imports of medicines were already 20 percent lower in 2019 compared to 2017.
The House of Representatives has urged the Board of African Development Bank (AfDB) to halt further harassment of the bank's President, Akinwumi Adesina.
According to the lawmaker, on May 8, 2015, a distinguished Nigerian and one time Minister of Agriculture, Mr Adesina, was elected the presumptive President of the bank, being the first Nigeria to hold the office.
Mr Elumelu said Mr Adesina has been very remarkable in steering the AfDB as its presence was highly visible and that it impacted much in less than five years.
The lawmaker said that Mr Adesina had remained Afrocentric and had insisted on the independence of the bank.
Nicholas Ossai (PDP-Delta) said that there was no true African that did not support how Mr Adesina had run the bank in the last four years.
Yeşim Oruç (left), new United Nations Resident Coordinator to Guyana, presented her letters of credence to Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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[MAP] Abu Dhabi -- Morocco has joined the Charter of the Arab Space Cooperation Group during the recent visit of a delegation from the Royal Moroccan Center for Remote Sensing (CRTS), led by its DG Driss Al Haddani, to Abu-Dhabi.
Souad Abdelrassoul, an Egyptian, lives and works in Cairo and is married to another distinctive artist, the Sudanese Salah Elmur, who is also known for the deliberately distorted figures in his paintings.
And it is the Circle that is currently hosting an online exhibition of recent work by Abdelrassoul.
Perhaps this is partly because Abdelrassoul expresses her beliefs through deliberately distorted figures not to reveal more about the individual (as in a Bacon portrait, for instance), but rather to promote a general point about our ultimately self-defeating attempts to impose sovereignty over Nature.
Online (circleartgallery.com) in her exhibition entitled Confusion, are 10 of Abdelrassoul’s paintings and 13 of her drawings of faces and figures on maps.
Flowers and fruit appear in all but a few of these paintings and mixed media drawings — rather bizarrely two bananas frame the figure in It’s Not my Food — and reinforce the artist’s thesis that all is one.
Alabamaag.gov Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Friday that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the felony ethics convictions of former Birmingham Water Works Board Chairwoman Sherry Lewis. Lewis was convicted in October 2019, following a one-and-one-half week trial, of having used her position as a director of the Birmingham Water Works Board to […]
A Zambian couple jailed for homosexuality in 2019 were freed this week as part of an amnesty for convicted prisoners to mark Africa Freedom Day, a government gazette said.
Japhet Chataba, 39, and Steven Samba, 31, were both found guilty of \"performing unnatural acts\" and sentenced to 15 years in prison in November last year.
Their names were among the 2,984 prisoners pardoned by President Edgar Lungu as part of Africa Freedom Day celebrations on Monday.
The pair's conviction had sparked a diplomatic row with US ambassador to Zambia, Daniel Foote, who said he was \"horrified\" by the judgement.
Foote was accused of \"questioning the constitution\" and recalled to the US last December after Lungu declared him persona non grata.
[Atlantic Council] The world received a wake-up call about the state of Sudanese democracy last week as forces bent on thwarting that progress--allegedly loyal to toppled dictator Omar al-Bashir--attempted a coup against the fragile government.
[Algerie Presse Service] Algiers -- Candidates for the legislative elections of June 12th on Sunday, the fourth election campaign day, prompted citizens to be judicious in the choice of their representatives in the future People's National Assembly (lower house of Parliament), by focusing on skills, adding that the building of the new Algeria is the responsibility of every Algerian.
Tennis star Sloane Stephens opened up about being the target of online abuse after losing in the third round of the US Open, ESPN reported. After being defeated by Angelique Kerber in three sets on Friday, Stephen’s shared on her Instagram story that she received so many vile messages that it affected her mental health.…
Electoral authorities in Guinea on Saturday declared President Alpha Conde winner of Sunday's election with 59.49% of the vote, defeating his main rival Cellou Diallo.
\t Some people went to the streets to protest immediately after the announcement. Such demonstrations have occurred for months after the government changed the constitution through a national referendum, allowing Conde to extend his decade in power.
\t Opposition candidate Cellou Diallo received 33.50% of the vote, the electoral commission said. Voter turnout was almost 80%.
\t Political tensions in the West African nation turned violent in recent days after Diallo claimed victory ahead of the official results. Celebrations by his supporters were suppressed when security forces fired tear gas to disperse them.
They accuse the electoral authorities of rigging the vote for incumbent president Alpha Conde.
\t At least nine people have been killed since the election, according to the government. The violence sparked international condemnation by the U.S. and others.
\t ``Today is a sad day for African democracy,'' said Sally Bilaly Sow, a Guinean blogger and activist living abroad. The government should take into account the will of the people who have a desire for change, he said.
ICC warning
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor warned on Friday that warring factions in Guinea could be prosecuted after fighting erupted.
“I wish to repeat this important reminder: anyone who commits, orders, incites, encourages and contributes in any other way to crimes … is liable to prosecution either by the Guinean courts or the ICC,” she said.
#ICC Prosecutor #FatouBensouda: "I wish to repeat this important reminder: anyone who commits, orders, incites, encourages or contributes, in any other way, to the commission of #RomeStatute crimes, is liable to prosecution either by #Guinean courts or by the #ICC."
— Int'l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) October 23, 2020
Last week, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, wrote a letter to the UN Security Council about Ethiopia's unilateral move to fill the dam outside the tripartite discussions.
[SAnews.gov.za] The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has joined the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to caution against the use of Ivermectin to treat COVID-19.
[East African] Most families in the expansive region are struggling and looking for another way of getting food; some have ventured into small businesses such as selling firewood to get money and buy food
New data reveals a stark difference in Covid-19 cases between schools that mask and schools that don't.
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ROME (AP) — Worldwide confirmed coronavirus infections hit the 10 million mark Sunday as voters in Poland and France went to the polls for virus-delayed elections.
New clusters of cases at a Swiss nightclub and in the central English city of Leicester showed that the virus was still circulating widely in Europe, though not with the rapidly growing infection rate seen in parts of the U.S., Latin America and India.
While concern in the U.S. has focused on big states like Texas, Arizona and Florida reporting thousands of new cases a day, rural states are also seeing infection surges, including in Kansas, where livestock outnumber people.
READ MORE: Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations on the rise in California, Arizona and Texas
But he acknowledged that hospitalizations and deaths could increase in the next few weeks.
Globally, confirmed COVID-19 cases passed the 10 million mark and confirmed deaths neared half a million, according to a tally by the Johns Hopkins University, with the U.S., Brazil, Russia and India having the most cases.
[Premium Times] Sam Amadi, who led the electricity regulatory body, criticises Nigeria's decision to privatise the sector the way it did.
These Braves don’t much like Atlanta. Alcorn State, team nickname: the Braves, entered the 16th MEAC/SWAC Challenge on Aug. 28 as the No. 2 team in black college football to kick off the season. Most [...]
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Marshaling collective action to combat climate change has been listed as a key agenda at the inaugural CARICOM-Africa Summit set to begin on Tuesday, September 7.
