Zambia's government takes Edgar Lungu's remains from Pretoria, as family disputes burial rights, igniting outrage over the legal battle for his body.
Zambia's government takes Edgar Lungu's remains from Pretoria, as family disputes burial rights, igniting outrage over the legal battle for his body.
Kenya's William Ruto, the sharp-suited deputy president now running for the top office, is one of the wealthiest men in the country but likes to portray himself as a champion of the poor and downtrodden. Not just a few at the top," Ruto said as he criss-crossed the country promoting his "bottom-up" economic plan.
Raila Amolo Odinga, a veteran Kenyan political leader and one-time prime minister, has long cast himself as an anti-establishment firebrand, despite belonging to one of the country's top political dynasties.
Once a street child in Nairobi and a grave digger in Britain, George Luchiri Wajackoyah barged onto the political scene with a "bhang": vowing to legalise marijuana, breed snakes and sell hyena testicles to China to offset Kenya's mammoth debt.
Millions of Kenyans head to the polls next Tuesday, with two political veterans locked in a fierce battle for the presidency. - 'Driving the apathy' - The political gamesmanship has fuelled frustration, especially among young Kenyans.
Burkina Faso's army said on Wednesday that civilians had been killed in an air strike against jihadists, as local inhabitants reported around 30 people had died. Local residents said around 30 people had died, most of whom were women.
At funerals, in rap videos or even inside public toilets: Kenya's election candidates are leaving no stone unturned in their fight for votes. Since then, he has made a no-holds-barred bid to win the governorship, doing everything from cleaning public toilets and washing cars to selling chapatis (an Indian flatbread) in the street.
From a makeshift camp in Ethiopia's Afar region for people displaced by war, herder Abdu Robso stares in bewilderment at the food aid trucks rolling up the nearby hill towards Tigray. After days of walking and an hours-long truck journey, Abdu along with his wife and several of their 22 children reached a camp for displaced people in Afdera, hundreds of kilometres from Erebti.
The All Blacks will be desperate to bounce back and prove their critics wrong when they go behind enemy lines to face world champions South Africa on Saturday. But Smith said the All Blacks have a great chance in South Africa to prove their critics wrong.
Violent anti-UN protests that rocked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week, claiming 36 lives, reflect local anger at persistent insecurity in the turbulent region. Local anger boiled over on July 25, when anti-UN protesters ransacked MONUSCO bases in North Kivu's capital Goma.
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