Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador left the country’s national palace on Tuesday in the front passenger seat of a white Volkswagen Jetta, swarmed by hundreds of jubilant supporters including one waving a live rooster. There was not a bodyguard in sight. Since claiming victory on Sunday, the leftist politician
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The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea have signed a declaration saying that the "state of war that existed between the two countries has come to an end", Eritrea's information minister tweeted. A peace deal that ended the 1998-1999 border war between the two countries has never been fully implemented. There
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Leaders of South Sudan’s warring parties have reached a peace agreement that will see rebel leader Riek Machar reinstated to the vice presidency and a possible end to the 5-year-old civil war. “It has been agreed that there will be four vice presidents: the current two vice presidents, plus Riek
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One person was killed when unidentified gunmen attacked a convoy of humanitarian trucks belonging to a contractor of U.N. children’s agency UNICEF north of South Sudan’s capital Juba on Wednesday, according to the agency. Africa’s youngest nation has been gripped for nearly five years by a conflict triggered by a
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One of France’s biggest companies was placed under formal investigation Thursday over allegations that it financed terrorist groups, including the Islamic State group, and aided and abetted crimes against humanity in a bid to continue operating in Syria as a civil war raged there. In a rare move against a
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The 2018 Careers in Africa Employer of Choice Survey has ranked the 100 best companies to work for in Africa. Of 100 companies listed, the top four include the World Bank Group, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and the African Development Bank. The 100-list includes banks, oil companies, FMCG brands and mobile
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The South Sudan rebels now want amendments to the Framework Agreement penned in Khartoum on Tuesday. The rebel movement’s director of information and public relations, Mr Mabior Garang de Mabior, said that they were opposed to the dividing of the country into three regions, the invitation of foreign forces and
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Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed escaped a grenade attack on Saturday at a rally in the capital that killed one person and left scores wounded, officials and witnesses said. The attack was launched by an unidentified assailant moments after 41-year-old prime minister, a former soldier who took office in
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An explosion rocked a stadium in Zimbabwe where President Emmerson Mnangagwa was addressing a political rally on Saturday, his spokesman said, adding the head of state was unhurt and taken to safety. "There has been an incident at Bulawayo (White City Stadium) where the president was addressing a rally. This
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US President Donald Trump has renewed sanctions on North Korea, citing an "extraordinary threat" from its nuclear weapons - just 10 days after saying there was no risk from Pyongyang, BBC reports. "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea," he tweeted on 13 June, a day after
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