Julius Maade Bio will probe alleged election irregularities in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maade Bio will appoint an extra-parliamentary committee to look at claims of irregularities in the run-off election that brought him to power. On Sunday he and his beaten challenger Samura Kamara attended a church service illustrating national reconciliation. President Julius Maade Bio promises to probe allegations that violence by his Sierra […]
257 dead in Algerian Air Force plane crash
At least 257 people have died in an military airplane crash southwest of Algiers. The victims include 26 members of the Polisario Front fighting for the independence of Western Sahara that’s been occupied by Morocco since 1975. The Russian-made Illyshin aircraft of the Algerian Air Force was bound for Tindouf on the Algerian border with […]