Elsewhere in Africa
Elsewhere on the continent, Africa correspondent Jean-Jacques Cornish reports. Israel and Guinea have re-established diplomatic relations severed 49 years ago when Israel was fighting the six-day war against its Arab neighbours. Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu says his country’s about to tie the diplomats knot with another African country shortly. Kidnappings in Central Africa by the Lord’s Resistance Army hit a six – year high in the first half of 2016. Uganda’s threatening […]
State of Emergency allows Erdogan to rule by decree
Turkey’s president has declared a state of emergency for three months following Friday night’s failed army coup. The measure will allow him to rule by decree and limit human rights. ends intro The declaration could be used to extend the detention of nearly 10 000 people rounded up since the failed coup. More than 50 […]
Hundreds protest more foreign peacekeepers in South Sudan
Hundreds have taken to the streets in Juba in a government-organized a protest against the deployment of foreign troops to secure the South Sudanese capital after recent clashes between opposing army factions that left hundreds dead. The African Union summit this week backed a regional protection force to bolster a 12 000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission […]