KHARTOUM – A Sudanese judge formally indicted former president Omar al-Bashir on charges of possessing illicit foreign currency and corruption on Saturday.Questioned in court for the first time, Bashir said that he had received $25 million from Saudi C…
Month: August 2019
Botswana to hold general elections on Oct 23: election body
GABORONE, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has instructed that the country’s general elections will be held on Oct 23, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said.The announcement came after Masisi dissolved the parliament on Wednesday midnight…
At US-Mexico Border, Africans Join Diversifying Migrant Community
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS � It took Julia and her two daughters five years to get from Kassai, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to a cot on the floor of a migrant shelter in Laredo, Texas, on a Sunday night in August 2019.First, it was four years in Angol…
Nigerian Government Accuses Local Shiites of Plotting Violent Revolution
ENUGU, NIGERIA – Abdullahi Musa, a Nigerian engineer, does not sleep in the same house for long these days. He frequently moves around different neighborhoods throughout Abuja, where he was born and reared. Musa has been increasingly concerned about hi…
Nigerian Government Accuses Local Shiites of Plotting Violent Revolution
ENUGU, NIGERIA – Abdullahi Musa, a Nigerian engineer, does not sleep in the same house for long these days. He frequently moves around different neighborhoods throughout Abuja, where he was born and reared. Musa has been increasingly concerned about hi…
Tanzanian Journalist’s Lawyer Presses for Trial, Medical Care
A lawyer for Tanzanian investigative journalist Erick Kabendera on Friday asked that he get a speedy trial and medical attention after more than four weeks of incarceration.Appearing with Kabendera at a hearing in magistrate’s court in Dar es Salaam, a…