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sudan sudan reviewing military deal with
russia sudan's military chief has said
the country is currently reviewing an
agreement to host a russian naval base
on its red sea coast which was reached
under the former president
omar al-bashir who was overthrown two
years ago after nearly 30 years
in power news about the deal surfaced
late
last year on the official portal of the
russian
government the deal allows russia to set
up a naval base
with up to 300 russian soldiers and
also to simultaneously keep up to four
navy ships
including nuclear-powered ones in port
sudan
on the red sea in exchange russia is to
provide sudan with weapons
and military equipment the agreement is
to last for 25 years with automatic
extensions for 10-year periods
if neither side objects to this
mauritius
mauritius moan's political veteran
anarud jagnos
the former prime minister of mauritius
anuruddh
who was credited with steering the
island nation's economic transformation
as its
longest serving leader had died at age
91.
his funeral and cremation will be held
on saturday
two days of the morning have been
declared with the nation's flag lowered
to half
mast on all public buildings born march
29
1930 jagnorth trained as a lawyer and
entered politics
in 1963 when he was elected to
parliament
in 1965 jugnos participated in a
historic conference in london
that paved the way for the adoption of a
constitution
in the then british colony and
independence
some three years later he was always
fiercely campaign he always fiercely
campaigned to have
the chagos islands a british overseas
territory in the indian oceans
that hosted key us air base returned to
mauritius
africa wide why united nations
peacekeeping missions have
failed to pacify africa's hot spots
military interventions under the united
nations banner are deployed to deal with
armed conflicts
on the continent however despite having
superior weapons
compared to armed groups scattered
across africa these
u.n missions have failed and continue to
fail dismally on their mandates
unfortunately for example in 1999
when the united nations organization
stabilization mission
in the drc monasco was founded it was
tasked with
neutralizing armed groups reducing the
threat posed
to state authority and civilian security
space
for stabilization activities but to date
south and north kivu regions remain
lawless with the dozens of marauding
militians
um who continued to kill rape young
girls women and girls
and and terrorized innocent civilians
algeria
algerians waiting for total recognition
of all crimes perpetuated by a colonial
france
president of algeria has announced that
algerians are waiting for a total
recognition of all crimes
perpetua perpetuated by colonial france
pointing out
that the fact of recognizing its crimes
is a form of repentance
he cites at the beginning of the
colonization with the extermination
for 40 years of entire tribes
and dissemination of whole villages
there were then
the period of spoliation where the land
was confiscated from the algerians to be
distributed to europeans
he also cites it the horrors of the 8th
of may 1945
with 45 000 deaths and finally the
liberation war
when the algerians took up arms to free
their country
president taboon said the country once a
peaceful
and recognized memory he stressed
insisting on the fact that
it is the colonial france that we're
judging
and not voltaire's france or the
enlightenment
france rwanda
rwanda to host bal in the next two years
rwanda will host the basketball africa
league bal games in the next
two years 2022 and 2023
however this time around only a couple
of key games will be played
in the country particularly finals and
the playoffs
via her twitter account on wednesday
claire akamazi
the rwandan development board ceo
clarified that the country's partnership
with bal
is for three years a total of 31 teams
from 31 countries will participate
in the qualifying rounds from which six
teams will book
tickets to play the bal inaugural season
in 2022
along with six other sides which
qualified for the bal finals upon
becoming champions in their respective
domestic leagues this year zamalek were
crowned the first champions of the bal
after beating the united states
monastery 76-63 in the final
rwandan representatives patriots
finished in third place
south africa authorities seeks interpol
assistance in arresting the guptas
the national prosecuting authority has
tweeted a press release
announcing a request to interpol for
assistance in the execution
of arrest warrants for artu and rajesh
gupta
their wives and a number of their
business associates
the gupta brothers have allegedly
expanded their
business interests through their alleged
close ties with former south african
president
jacob zuma zuma has been accused of
having
sold executive power to the
controversial family whose ties to
high-ranking officials have been
examined in the zondo commission of
inquiries probe
into alleged state capture thank you so
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