here is your latest african news mali mali military government warns denmark and france
against internal interference mali's government has advised france defense minister florence
perlay to observe the greatness of silence after she accused the army leadership of
provocation in an interview broadcast on state tv military spokesman colonel abdullah maiga
also accused france of colonial reflexes and of using regional organizations to divide malians
relations between mali's ruling military and france have worsened since the army seized power
in a coup in august 2020 but tensions have risen since december when the east african block echoes
imposed sanctions including a trade embargo and border closures on the conflict torn nation
the military spokesman also repeated the demand that denmark withdraw its troops which have
arrived in mali to join the french-led taboka force of european special forces
malawi malawi president excludes party officials from new cabinet malawi's president lazarus
chakrera has named what he calls a partial cabinet in which he has left out several senior members
president akura dissolved his entire cabinet earlier this week made a public outcry over
corruption saying he was taking the decision to confront all forms of lawless conduct by
public officials in total eight ministers were retained and two new appointments were made
president aguero also departed from the tradition of including his own name and that of his vice in
the cabinet list president chacura's first cabinet had 31 members it is expected he will name more
ministers in due course the opposition democratic progressive party has asked the president to
reduce the size of its cabinet from 31 to less than 20 ministers anti-government protests
have been held since last november to condemn the rising cost of living and allegations of nepotism
and corruption africa scopa will not summon ramaphosa parliament standing committee on public
account scopa has decided not to summon president cyril or mafosa to appear to provide information
on the leaked audio recording parliament's legal service and various committee members have agreed
that a summon should be the last resort this comes after african national congress anc member
of parliament marvin dykes requested scopa to summon rama foster to appear before the committee
dykes wants the president to share information about his knowledge of their alleged misuse of
public funds for political party activities a parliamentary committee has the power to summon
any person to appear before it when required to do so section 58 of the constitution makes provision
for the national assembly or any of its parliament committees to summon anyone to provide information
rwanda rwanda to reopen the border with uganda after two years rwanda has announced that its
main border with uganda that was closed in 2019 will reopen cross-border movement of people and
goods at the gatuna or katuna border was barred over tension between the two east african nations
only goods were allowed in through the other two borders chineka and gakitumba the re-opening was
announced after president yowari museveni's son lieutenant general mohozi ke nerugaba met
president paul kagame in rwanda rwanda had accused uganda of arresting and deporting its citizens and
supporting rebels from the democratic forces for the liberation of rwanda the ugandan government
denied the allegations and instead accused rwanda of infiltrating its security agencies
namibia nama of a hero petition new german government the nama and over
hero representatives have petitioned germany's new foreign minister and elena berbock calling
her to restart what they termed as a failed german namibia intergovernmental negotiations
on the genocide of their ancestors the petition is seeking 500 signatures and by yesterday afternoon
it had collected 355 signatures in june last year the german government had acknowledged the mass
killings and agreed that germany would apologize for the genocide and extend financial assistance
of 1.1 billion dollars in project funding over 30 years the descendants of affected communities
however the majority of the affected communities including opposition members of parliament feel
that germany must do more to atone for its sins the group added that germany both of
its self-critical culture of remembrance especially regarding the commemoration of
the holocaust and should show the same sentiment to the genocide that committed to the over hero
and nama south and africa zambia's president visits south africa to discuss trade and security
zambian president hakienda hichalema arrived this week in south africa to discuss security and trade
between the two nations hichalema has met with south african president syria rama fossa who is
currently chair of the sadc on matters of politics defense and security cooperation this is the ninth
trip abroad from the zambian president since taking office last august zambia's opposition has
criticized the visit questioning the president's motives after he described it as a courtesy call
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