Gen Seare was assassinated on the same day

Wives of assassinated Ethiopian generals call for justice

Politics Jun 23
The wife of the late Ethiopian army chief, who was shot dead a year ago today, has said she has failed in her efforts to meet Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in order to be updated on the state of the investigation into her husband's killing that shocked the country.
South Africa’s last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk
Former South African president De Klerk withdraws from U.S. rights talk
Politics Jun 22
South Africa’s last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged racial climate, his foundation said on Sunday.
Bedie, 86, was president from 1993-1996
Ivory Coast ex-president Bedie says he will run in 2020 election
Politics Jun 21
Ivory Coast’s octogenarian former President Henri Konan Bedie will run for office again in presidential elections in October, he said in a statement on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets on Friday
ECOWAS urges Mali to re-run disputed elections amid mass protests
Politics Jun 21
West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Saturday called on Mali to re-run some of its contested local elections and convene a government of national unity after anti-government protests swept the capital Bamako.
Egypt’s President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Egypt has a legitimate right to intervene in Libya, Sisi says
Politics Jun 21
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday said his country has a legitimate right to intervene in neighbouring Libya and ordered his army to be ready to carry out any mission outside the country, if necessary.
Opposition groups are calling for widescale political and economic reform in Mali
Thousands of protesters call for resignation of Mali president
Politics Jun 20
Thousands of protesters in Mali have gathered in the capital, Bamako, calling for the president to resign.
Anastacio Matavele, whose picture is being held by a family member, was killed in October
Four Mozambique policemen jailed for poll observer's murder
Politics Jun 19
Four policemen in Mozambique have been given jail terms of more than 20 years each for murdering an election observer ahead of last October's election.