KINSHASA Authorities in western Congo say at least 30 people are dead and another 200 are missing after a boat sank on a lake.Simon Mboo Wemba, the mayor of Inongo, told The Associated Press on Sunday night that many of those aboard the boat that sank …
Day: May 26, 2019
Sudan’s Leading Opposition Party Rejects Strike Call
KHARTOUM A leading Sudanese opposition party says it is refusing a call by protest leaders for a two-day general strike, in a sign of divisions within the pro-democracy movement that is challenging military rule in Sudan.The opposition Umma Party said …
Libya’s Haftar Says to Fight Until Tripoli ‘Militias’ Defeated
PARIS Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who is leading a military offensive against the U.N.-recognized government in Tripoli, said in an interview published Sunday he will continue fighting until militias in the city laid down their arms.Haftar had jus…
Botswana’s Former President Quits Ruling Party
GABORONE, Botswana, Botswana’s former president, Seretse Khama Ian Khama, on Saturday, quit the southern African country’s ruling party, citing deepening differences with the current administration under President Mokgweetsi Masisi.Khama made the annou…
Botswana’s Former President Quits Ruling Party
GABORONE, Botswana, Botswana’s former president, Seretse Khama Ian Khama, on Saturday, quit the southern African country’s ruling party, citing deepening differences with the current administration under President Mokgweetsi Masisi.Khama made the annou…