Monthly Archives: September 2016

Opposition parties dig in

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BY Everson Mushava For the past few months, Nera has been protesting against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, but most of the demonstrations have been thwarted by the police. After a meeting of the Nera technical group on Monday, the opposition parties resolved to intensify their push through both protests and other strategies that would also include ratcheting up international pressure… Read more »

Cameroonian electricity company Eneo returns more than 700 Km of fibre optic to the State

The Cameroonian Minister of Posts and Telecoms, Minette Libom Li Likeng, and the Managing Director of Eneo, Joël Nana Kontchou, signed on 20 September 2016 in Yaoundé, the capital of the country, an agreement on the retrocession to the State of Cameroon of a network of more than 700 Km of fibre optic built by the public electricity service concessionaire…. Read more »

Gambia: Disgraced EX-Gambian Interior Minister Avoids The Public View After Been Sacked!

Gambia: Disgraced EX-Gambian Interior Minister Avoids The Public View After Been Sacked! The exact whereabouts of the sacked Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, has become a major talking point in intelligence circles in The Gambia. A law enforcement source, who spoke to this medium said Sonko, was briefly missing from the public view shortly after his weekend unceremonious sacking—hence leading to… Read more »

South Africa rape: ‘Shocking’ levels of violence in mining area

One in four women living in a key platinum mining area in South Africa has been raped in her lifetime, a survey by medical charity MSF has said. About half of women in Rustenburg had been subject to sexual violence or intimate partner violence, it said. The charity said the findings of its survey were “shocking but not uncommon” in… Read more »

Protests over black girls’ hair rekindle debate about racism in South Africa

PRETORIA, South Africa — In recent years, staff members at the prestigious Pretoria High School for Girls in South Africa’s administrative capital had taken to telling black students to “fix” their hair, according to some current and former pupils. Exactly what “fix” meant depended on who was issuing the order, the young women said: Some were told to use chemical… Read more »

‘Not out of the woods yet’ in yellow fever outbreak in Angola, Congo, WHO says

Some 6,000 people in Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo may be infected with yellow fever, six times the number of confirmed cases, but no new infections have been found since July 12, an “extremely positive” trend, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The looming rainy season has raised fears of further spread of the worst outbreak in decades… Read more »

DR Congo puts fighters on trial for civilian massacres

   Human rights monitors say Allied Democratic Forces have been involved in killing more than a thousand civilians. A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has begun the trial of 215 members of an armed group accused of killing hundreds of civilians in and around Beni town in the country’s northeast. Eighty accused members of the Allied Democratic… Read more »