Mozambique’s peaceful new opposition
Mozambicans go to the polls tomorrow with the newest political player offering a non-violent alternative to the old actors who resumed a low-level conflict. The Mozambique Democratic Movement is a breakaway from the Renamo movement which went back the bush in 2012 — twenty years after fighting an exhausting 16-year war against the ruling Frelimo […]
Ravalomanana’s return seen a chance for reconciliation
Madagascar authorities continue to hold ousted president Marc Ravaolomanana who slipped back into the country on Sunday, ending five years of exile in South Africa. Key ambassadors in Antananarivo, including South Africa’s envoy Gert Grobler met in the capital today to decide how best to react to this destabilising development on the island state struggling […]
Ravalomanana’s family don’t know here he is.
The family of outsted Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana say they don’t know his whereabouts after he was seized by security forces yesterday. Ravalomanana slipped into the island state on Sunday, leaving South Africa, where he’s spent five years in exile, without a passport. Madagascar president Heri Rajoanarimampiani told South Africa’s ambassador Gert Grobler today that […]
Ravalomanana’s family demand access to him
Madagascar authorities confirm it’s they who seized ousted president Marc Ravalomanana who slipped back home on Sunday ending five years of exile in South Africa. His family fear he has been injured and are demanding to know his whereabouts to get him medical attention. Madagascar President Heri Rajoanarimampiani says Marc Ravalomanana is being held for […]
Ebola the most severe medical emergency of modern times: WHO
The World Health organisation warns that the Ebola epidemic threatens the very survival of societies and could lead to failed states. It’s calling the outbreak, that’s killed more than 4 000 people in West Africa, the most severe medical crisis of our time. WHO head Margaret Chan says the panic in Ebola-hit West Africa is […]