Trump says he will have to call up more military at US-Mexico border

SAN ANTONIO, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump said he would have to mobilise more of the military at the U.S. border with Mexico after listening to stories about migrants crossing the border from people attending a Republican fundraiser. “I’m going to have to call up more military,” Trump…

US, China agree to establish trade deal enforcement offices: Mnuchin

WASHINGTON, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States and China have largely agreed on a mechanism to police any trade agreement they reach, including establishing new “enforcement offices,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. Mnuchin, speaking on CNBC television, said that progress continues to be made in the talks, including a…

Venezuela: Pres Maduro says deal reached with Red Cross to send aid

CARACAS, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Nicolas Maduro announced an agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross to bring humanitarian aid into Venezuela. The oil-rich country is enduring acute shortages of food, medicine and other basics, and Maduro is locked in a power struggle with the increasingly popular…

1980s Gukurahundi massacres: Zimbabwe to exhume mass graves

Julius Mvulo Nyathi – killed in 1984 – is just one of the people whose remains have already been found HARARE, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to facilitate the exhumation and burial of victims killed in a state crackdown in the 1980s.Between 5,000 and 20,000…

Zambian villagers can sue copper miner in UK

LONDON, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A UK Supreme Court has ruled that Zambian communities can seek justice and compensation in British courts after accusing mining group Vedanta of being responsible for polluting their water supply. Rights groups are hailing the ruling as a significant breakthrough that could lead to other…

Ethiopian Olympian, an asylum seeker in US, finally accepts prize money from government

Feyisa Lilesa comes from the Oromo ethnic group ADDIS ABABA, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ethiopian runner Feyisa Lelisa has finally accepted the $17,000 prize money offered to him by the government for winning a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.Feyisa refused to return to Ethiopia to accept the money…

Sudan protests: Bashir supporters plan to rally on Thursday

KHARTOUM, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Loyalists of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir have called for a support rally in Khartoum on Thursday. The acting chief of Bashir’s ruling party, Ahmed Harun, is quoted as saying that the rally aims to show that “there are social and political powers that are committed…

Madagascar entire police force suspended following riot

ANTANANARIVO, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The government in Madagascar has suspended the entire police force in a town in the north east after a riot broke out following the death of young man in police custody. The 19-year-old died on Saturday after spending a night in a police cell, prompting…

Death toll from devastating Cyclone Idai rises above 1,000

BEIRA (Mozambique), April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll from a storm that crashed into southeast Africa last month has risen above 1,000, with more than 4,000 cases of cholera reported among survivors in Mozambique, the hardest-hit country.The United Nations has described Cyclone Idai as “one of the deadliest storms…

Pres Bolsonaro targets deadly gangs control from Brazil’s prisons

PORTO ALEGRE (Brazil), April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Before Brazilian prosecutors could conduct an inspection last year of the prison considered the country’s worst, its warden had to clear their visit with the jail’s de facto authorities: in-house prison gangs. As Brazil’s incarcerated prison population has surged eight-fold in three decades…