KHARTOUM – A Sudanese judge formally indicted former president Omar al-Bashir on charges of possessing illicit foreign currency and corruption on Saturday.Questioned in court for the first time, Bashir said that he had received $25 million from Saudi C…
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At US-Mexico Border, Africans Join Diversifying Migrant Community
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS � It took Julia and her two daughters five years to get from Kassai, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to a cot on the floor of a migrant shelter in Laredo, Texas, on a Sunday night in August 2019.First, it was four years in Angol…
Read MoreSOUTH SUDAN / CANTONMENT SUPPLIES
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / CANTONMENT SUPPLIESTRT: 1:45 SOURCE: UNMISSRESTRICTIONS: NONELANGUAGES: ENGLISH /NATSDATELINE: 29 AUGUST 2019, JUBA, SOUTH SUDANSHOTLIST:28 AUGUST 2019, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN1. Wide shot, cargo plane arriving2. Various shots, tr…
Read MoreTanzanian Journalist’s Lawyer Presses for Trial, Medical Care
A lawyer for Tanzanian investigative journalist Erick Kabendera on Friday asked that he get a speedy trial and medical attention after more than four weeks of incarceration.Appearing with Kabendera at a hearing in magistrate’s court in Dar es Salaam, a…
Read MoreTanzanian Journalist’s Lawyer Presses for Trial, Medical Care
A lawyer for Tanzanian investigative journalist Erick Kabendera on Friday asked that he get a speedy trial and medical attention after more than four weeks of incarceration.Appearing with Kabendera at a hearing in magistrate’s court in Dar es Salaam, a…
Read MoreNigerian Government Accuses Local Shiites of Plotting Violent Revolution
ENUGU, NIGERIA – Abdullahi Musa, a Nigerian engineer, does not sleep in the same house for long these days. He frequently moves around different neighborhoods throughout Abuja, where he was born and reared. Musa has been increasingly concerned about hi…
Read MoreNigerian Government Accuses Local Shiites of Plotting Violent Revolution
ENUGU, NIGERIA – Abdullahi Musa, a Nigerian engineer, does not sleep in the same house for long these days. He frequently moves around different neighborhoods throughout Abuja, where he was born and reared. Musa has been increasingly concerned about hi…
Read MoreUganda Returns 5 to DRC; All Had Contact With Ebola Victim
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Uganda’s Health Ministry on Friday evening repatriated five Congolese people who had contact with a 9-year-old girl with Ebola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The girl, also of Congolese origin, traveled with her mother Wednes…
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