here's your latest african news burkina faso burkina faso resumes trial of thomas
sankara's alleged killers the trial of 14 men including burkina faso's former president
accusing the assassination of loved african leader thomas and kara 34 years ago resumed at a military
court in augadugu on monday the proceedings opened on october 11 and were adjourned at the request of
the defense lawyer who wanted more time to study the 20 000 items in the dossier 12 of
the 14 accused were in court on monday including general gilbert dendera a senior army leader at
the time of the 1987 coup the trial resumed with a presentation of a list of 60 witnesses that
the court wants to hear including by video link for those who are abroad among the witnesses are
former french minister ronald dumas former culture minister jack lang and jin christophe mitterrand
son of late president francois mitterrand compared the main accused announced through his lawyer this
month that he would boycott the trial sudan sudan suspends flights from the main airport
civil aviation authorities in sudan have suspended flights to the main airport in
the capital khartoum flight activities will be suspended until saturday a statement posted on
facebook said anti-coup protesters took to the streets on tuesday a day after deadly clashes
earlier in the day co-leader general abdel fattah al-bruhan said the military seized
power on monday to prevent civil war adding that the deposed prime minister abdallah hamduk was
being kept at the general's house for his own safety and will be allowed home soon
agnes wanjiru murder kenyan family angered of a uk army cover-up the family of a kenyan
woman allegedly killed by a british soldier in 2012 are in anger and despair that no one has
yet been convicted of wanjiru's murder the uk defense ministry says it has been cooperating
with a kenyan inquiry into agnes wanjiru's death following allegations of her cover-up her body
was found in a septic tank at a hotel in central kenya nearly three months after she had spent an
evening partying with soldiers the 21 year old left behind a five-month-old daughter who is now
being cared for by her sister for decades locals have complained about the british army which has
a training base in nanuki as many of the issues go unaddressed her murder is yet to be investigated
as her family is awaiting justice nigeria stolen benin bronze still remains at bristol museum
and art gallery benin bronze belonging to nigeria is still at bristol museum and art gallery despite
an agreement to return the sculpture 18 months ago the bronze is one of hundreds stolen during
the invasion of benin city by the british in 1897 a council spokesperson said the museum would also
return the bronze but they were subjected to a national conversation between the uk and nigeria
last year prince edin akinswa of the royal court of benin pleaded for the bronze to be returned
stating they were not originally made as museum objects south africa court rejects zuma's push
to dismiss prosecutor a high court in south africa has dismissed an application by former president
jacob zuma to have a lead prosecutor removed from his corruption and racketeering trial in his
application mr zuma has accused billy downer of being biased against him and leaking his private
medical records to the media the former president has avoided prosecution for almost two decades
over charges of allegedly receiving kickbacks from french arms company thales relating to a
2 billion or 1.4 billion pound weapons contract both mr zuma and thales have denied the charges
the judge lamented the numerous delays to the trial saying that in the interest of justice
the matter should be heard as soon as possible mr zuma's legal team has said it intends to appeal
against the latest ruling in a high court ghana popular ghanian musician chatawale granted bail
popular ghanian arches shata wallet has been granted bail by a court in the capital accra the
artist whose real name is charles niarma mensah turned himself in last week after police accused
him of spreading false information over an alleged gun attack the musician had posted a statement
on facebook saying his life was in danger he was taken to court after his arrest and denied
charges of publishing false news and causing fear and panic on tuesday he and his three core
accused were released on the bale of a hundred thousand ghanian cities an equivalent of 16
400 or 11 900 pounds each local media has shared a video showing the moment the musician was released
nigeria looted bronze cockerell set for handover to nigeria cambridge university will on wednesday
become the first british institution to return a benign bronze to the nigerian authorities
jesus college will hand over a statue of a cockrell to a delegation from nigeria in a
ceremony that will take place at the college it follows decades of campaigning by activists
for the bronze statue to be returned home the cockrell is one of the thousands of priceless
artifacts taken by british soldiers from the palace of the then rule of the kingdom of benin
the loot happened during a punitive expedition by the british military in 1897 which resulted in the
ancient city of benin being razzed to the ground this marked the end of the kingdom of benin then
one of the most powerful in africa the artifacts were then sold and gifted to individuals as well
as museums around the world on thursday aberdeen university will also return one of its bronze
nigerian authorities and activists have long called for their repatriation arguing that
they are part of their cultural heritage they hope these returns will mark the beginning of a
large-scale repatriation of the bronze to nigeria which plans to build a museum to house them
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