South Africa’s former president de Klerk withdraws from racism talk in the US

The De Klerk Foundation said he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts JOHANNESBURG, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Africa’s former President FW de Klerk has withdrawn from a US seminar where he was to speak on the rule of law, racism and minority rights. His foundation said…

Cattle thieves kill 10 vigilantes in Nigeria: police

KANO (Nigeria), June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Gunmen believed to be cattle thieves have shot dead 10 vigilantes in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, police said, in the latest violence to hit the restive region. But local residents said 21 people were killed and 16 were seriously injured in the attack on…

Libya unity govt says Egypt threat ‘declaration of war’

A man waves a Libyan flag as people walk on protest signs showing “X” marks on the faces of French President Emmanuel Macron, Egyptian President Abdelfattah el-Sisi, and Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, during a demonstration in the Martyrs’ Square in the centre of the…

Nine die from gastrointestinal disease outbreak in Zimbabwe, 1,000 infected

HARARE, June 23 (NNN-XINHUA) – Nine people in Zimbabwe’s second largest city Bulawayo have died from a gastrointestinal disease outbreak, while about a thousand have been infected with the water-borne disease. The local authority said in a statement that one of the possible causes of the outbreak was water contamination…

UK Stabbing Declared “Terrorist Incident”

LONDON, June 22 (NNN-XINHUA) – Britain’s counter-terrorism police, said, the stabbing incident taking place in southern England’s town of Reading on Saturday night, “has now been declared a terrorist incident.” “Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing South East, have been working closely with Thames Valley Police’s Major Crime Department, throughout the…

ECOWAS urges Mali to re-run disputed elections amid mass protests

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets on Friday BAMAKO, June 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — West African regional bloc ECOWAS called on Mali to re-run some of its contested local elections and convene a government of national unity after anti-government protests swept the capital Bamako. Tens of thousands of…

US accuses UN body of hypocrisy after condemnation of US police brutality

WASHINGTON, June 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of hypocrisy after the organisation condemned racism and police brutality in the US following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month. Pompeo said the 47-member forum’s unanimous resolution on…

Egypt warns of ‘direct intervention’ in Libya after ally east-based LNA suffers setback

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi CAIRO, June 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Egypt’s president warned that advances by Turkey-backed Libyan forces on the Libyan city of Sirte could prompt an Egyptian military intervention in the neighbouring country in support of Cairo’s ally Khalifa Haftar. Meanwhile, Ankara has urged forces led by the…

Burundi’s new president vows to unite nation isolated over rights abuses

Evariste Ndayishimiye at his inauguration ceremony as Burundi’s new president GITEGA, June 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Burundi’s new president, Evariste Ndayishimiye, promised to unite a country that has been cut off by aid donors due to rampant human rights abuses, after he was sworn in early following the sudden death of…

DRC President’s Chief of Staff Vital Kamerhe guilty of corruption; sentenced to 20 years imprisonment

KINSHASA, June 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) —A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has found President Felix Tshisekedi’s chief of staff guilty of corruption. Vital Kamerhe was sentenced to 20 years’ hard labour on Saturday, after facing charges of embezzling almost $50m of public funds. The judge presiding over the case was murdered…
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