CAIRO – Egypt’s state prosecutor says he has referred ousted President Mohammed Morsi for trial on charges of inciting the murder of protesters. The accusations relate to violence outside the presidential palace in Cairo last December when at least seven people were killed in clashes. Fourteen other members of the Muslim Brotherhood are to stand…
NAIROBI – A severed human head has been sent to the boss of Kenya’s police commission, Johnston Kavuludi, who has been trying to reform the service. A box containing the head and two human hands covered in blood also had the message: “Kavuludi, you are next”. The police say they are interpreting it as a…
CAIRO – Leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Mohammed al-Beltagi has been arrested, according to Egyptian state media. Mr Beltagi, secretary-general of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), is accused of inciting violence, Channel One TV said. Prosecutors had ordered his arrest on 10 July. It comes as Egypt’s military moves against Brotherhood leaders following the…
TUNIS – Thousands of Tunisians have rallied in front of the National Assembly in the capital Tunis calling for the Islamist-led government to resign. The opposition National Salvation Front has called for a week of protests over what it says is the government’s inability to guarantee security. The protests come a month after the assassination…
JOHANNESBURG – The Central African Republic’s ousted dictator Francois Bozize says President Jacob Zuma’s broken promises made during a secret back-room deal led to his downfall. In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Times in Paris last week, the deposed strongman said that he sent his son, Jean Francis Bozize, then the CAR’s Defence minister,…
CAIRO – Egyptian judiciary officials say former president Hosni Mubarak could be freed from custody this week. They say a court on Monday ordered his release in a corruption case that alleged he and his two sons embezzled funds for presidential palaces. Mubarak has been ordered released in two other court cases against him —…
JOHANNESBURG – The court ruling compelling the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to release the controversial spy tapes into President Jacob Zuma’s alleged corruption could plunge the country into “constitutional, political and moral crisis”, analysts have warned. On Friday, Judge Rammaka Mathopo of the Pretoria High Court ordered the NPA to comply with last year’s judgment…
CAIRO – At least 24 Egyptian policemen have been killed in an ambush attack in the Sinai peninsula. Medical sources and officials said the police were in two buses which came under attack from armed men close to the town of Rafah on the Gaza border. Three policemen were also reported to have been injured…
BAMAKO – Mali’s presidential election has been won by Ibrahim Boubacar Keita after his rival conceded defeat in the second round run-off. Ex-Finance minister Soumaila Cisse said he had congratulated his rival Keita on winning the vote and wished him good luck, the AFP news agency reported on Monday. Cisse’s concession, hours after he complained…
CAIRO – Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have stormed a government building in Cairo and set it on fire. The move comes a day after security forces broke up the Brotherhood’s protest camps, leaving hundreds dead. Brotherhood members had been protesting for weeks about the army’s overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in July. The government…
