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ANALYSIS: Repression & dialogue in Zimbabwe: twin strategies that aren’t working
The Mnangagwa regime's coercive acts are a continuation of the violence and brutality of the Mugabe era, while he seeks global re-engagement and selective national dialogue.
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Mozambique president says 'encouraging progress' in IMF talks
Mozambique has been battling to recover from a debt crisis after admitting in 2016 to $1.4 billion of previously undisclosed lending, prompting the IMF to cut off support and triggering a currency collapse and debt default.
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Malawi leader warns protesters planning airports shutdown
The protesters have threatened a three-day shutdown of the country's borders and airports, starting 26 August.
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Cameroon separatist leader's sentence could increase violence - analyst
Ayuk Tabe, a charismatic leader widely deemed as a moderate in the separatist movement, was convicted with nine others of charges including "terrorism and secession", the state's lawyer, Martin Luther Achet, told AFP.
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Sudan swears in ruling council and prime minister
A government is expected to be formed within a week, after which the new institutions can tackle the daunting task of rescuing a failing economy and ending three different internal armed conflicts.
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Three killed in Chad police station attack
The attack comes after a state of emergency was declared just days ago.
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Zimbabwe charges former Mugabe deputy with abuse of office
The court freed Mphoko on bail. He denies all the charges, his lawyer Zibusiso Ncube said.
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Toll from Tanzania truck blast reaches 100
Officials had put the tally at 95 on Sunday, and another two people were announced dead on Monday.
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Sudan's new ruling body to be sworn in
The body replaces the Transitional Military Council (TMC) that took charge after months of deadly street protests brought down longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir in April.
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Zim govt accuses western diplomats of interfering in internal affairs
The embassies of the European Union, United Kingdom, France, the United States and Canada issued a joint statement on Tuesday criticising President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for cracking down on recent MDC-led protests.
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Zimbabwe police block opposition-led protest in Gweru
The EU, together with the US, Britain and other Western nations, said the recent harassment and intimidation of rights defenders was a cause for great concern.
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Cameroon anglophone separatist leader gets life sentence
Ayuk Tabe, a charismatic 54-year-old computer engineer by training, was the first self-proclaimed president of 'Ambazonia' - a breakaway state declared in October 2017 in two English-speaking regions of the central African country.
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MDC lashes SADC for 'quiet diplomacy' on Zimbabwe
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti said that they are disappointed by the approach of regional leaders.
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Ex-Sudan president got millions from Saudis, court hears
Bashir listened to the testimony without comment, sitting in a metal cage and wearing traditional white robes and a turban in his first appearance in a Khartoum courtroom.
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Will MDC’s ‘Free Zimbabwe’ campaign protest continue today?
It was the second protest march police have banned in less than a week under what the MDC is calling its Free Zimbabwe Campaign.
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Zim court dismisses opposition bid to lift protest ban
There were no reports that opposition supporters tried to defy the ban, nor were there reports of a police crackdown on protesters as there were on Friday in Harare.
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Sudan's Bashir got $90 mn from Saudi royal family members
The former president, who was forced from power by months of protests in April after 30 years in power, sat in a metal cage wearing a traditional white gown.
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Zimbabwe deploys security forces over banned march
Soldiers and armed police on horseback and in trucks patrolled the central business district and most of the high-density suburbs.
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Ebola spreads 200km west to remote, militia-run Congo town
Walikale lies about 200 km (125 miles) west of Goma, one of the towns affected by the Ebola epidemic, and much further away from the epicentre of the epidemic in Butembo and Beni.
