AFRICA

20 killed at ethnic flarepoint in central Mali

11:42 pm February 14, 2020

Bamako: Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight on a village in central Mali, local officials said Friday, in an apparent spate of ethnic violence in the deeply troubled region. The attack occurred in Ogossagou, a village mainly inhabited by Fulani people where around 160 died last March in a massacre blamed on Dogon […]

Sudan says leader made no promises to Israel PM

6:30 pm February 6, 2020

Khartoum: Sudan’s cabinet said on Thursday that the country’s leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had made no promise to Israel’s prime minister of “normalising ties” between the two countries. Burhan, who heads Sudan’s ruling sovereign council, met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for previously unannounced talks in Entebbe on Monday that appeared to signal an […]

Police say Lesotho’s first lady to be charged with murder

11:18 pm February 4, 2020

Maseru (Lesotho): The first lady of Lesotho is set to be charged with murder in connection with the 2017 killing of the prime minister’s former wife, police said Tuesday. Maesaiah Thabane, who fled the country on January 10 to escape arrest, returned to the small southern African kingdom Tuesday afternoon and handed herself to police […]

Kenyan president says ex-president Daniel arap Moi has died

1:43 pm February 4, 2020

Nairobi: Daniel arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and economic turmoil fueled by runaway corruption, has died. He was 95. Moi’s death was announced by President Uhuru Kenya in a statement on the state broadcaster on Tuesday. Moi, who ruled Kenya for 24 years, had […]

India sends aid to cyclone-hit Madagascar

6:48 pm February 2, 2020

New Delhi: India has sent relief supplies to cyclone-hit Madagascar using its naval ship INS Airavat, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday. In a tweet, Jaishankar said India was an early responder to the natural disaster that hit the island nation. “INS Airavat delivers relief supplies to cyclone-hit #Madagascar. #SAGAR Policy at work […]