CAIRO – Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi is to go on trial on 4 November on charges of inciting murder and violence, state media report. The charges relate to the deaths of at least seven people during clashes between opposition protesters and Muslim Brotherhood supporters outside a presidential palace in Cairo last year. Mr Morsi…
PRETORIA – Former South Africa police chief and convicted criminal Jackie Selebi, who was released on medical parole in 2012 in a reportedly critically-ill state, was photographed shopping in Pretoria. He was chauffeured in his luxury BMW 6-series to a shopping centre in Monument Park to buy the Sunday papers, said Beeld. Selebi spoke to…
LAGOS – Africa has 55 billionaires, far more than previously thought, Nigeria-based Ventures financial magazine says. They include three women – the mother of Kenya’s president, a daughter of Angola’s president and a Nigerian oil tycoon and fashion designer. The richest man is Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote, with a fortune of $20.2bn (£12.5bn), Ventures said. The…
CAIRO – Egyptian security forces have been targeted in several attacks around the country, reports say. Gunmen killed five Egyptian soldiers who were in a patrol vehicle outside of the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya, say security officials. A large car bomb struck headquarters of the security forces in southern Sinai, killing five, while a…
LAGOS – A plane carrying 20 people crashed on takeoff from Nigeria’s Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, killing at least eight, officials said. Five or six people were hospitalized after the Embraer 120 jet crash-landed at 9 a.m., said Yakubu Dati, a spokesman for the federal airport authority. The Associated Airlines flight had been slated…
JOHANNESBURG – The DA has approached the Western Cape High Court for an order compelling the public works department to hand over a report into the more than R200m upgrade of President Jacob Zuma’s private residence at Nkandla. “In this application I am acting in my personal capacity, my capacity as the leader of the…
ABIDJAN – The International Criminal Court has made public an arrest warrant for Ivorian ex-minister Charles Ble Goude over war crimes allegations. He is wanted by the ICC for alleged crimes against humanity during violence which erupted following disputed elections in Ivory Coast in 2010. Some 3,000 people lost their lives in the crisis after…
CAIRO – Work is under way to establish political stability in Egypt following the ouster of President Mohamed Morsy, the country’s interim foreign minister told the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday. Nabil Fahmy sought to assure the world that the temporary government is following a road map that will see nationwide elections by next spring….
NAIROBI – Kenya has begun three days of national mourning following the end of the four-day siege by Islamist militants on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping centre. In a televised address, President Uhuru Kenyatta said six members of the security forces were among 67 people who had died. Declaring the siege over, he said five militants had…
NAIROBI – His face wet with rain and tears, Nairobi banker Ali Valli plunged through the police barricades outside the Westgate mall, rushing desperately down the road toward the building where his wife and son were hostages of Islamist militants. “Let me in, let me in, let me in,” he pleaded with the police. “I…
