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AFRICAN BRIEFS
Mugabe threatens tried to appease them by to restore stability after are ia Africa. The war in between the Muslim takeover of foreign- giving them access to weeks of violent protests Ivory Coast also took a north and Christian and owned firms in long- [oil] resources... but by soldiers, students, toll as fighting closed off animist south every two suffering Zimbabwe they have turned on business people and resi- a key import route for years. him,” he said. dents demanding an end months. A president from the
(GIN) -- Zimbabwe The President's plan to police brutality, crime Compaore came to north should have been President Robert Mugabe was dismissed by Prime and skyrocketing food power in a bloody coup in power until 2015 but
^Jtandin^fc^^ith his Minister Morgan prices. ^ OV& for- Tsvangirai who called it It was the first time eign-owned companies "looting and plunder" by police were taking part in which refuse to transfer a greedy elite. Tsvangirai an uprising that began in majority shareholding to and Mugabe currently the capital, < black lead the country under a Ouagadougou, late
Thursday. In the western city of Koudougou, protesting students burned down the premises of the ruling party and
He was re- plans went awry when \ ember by the previous president,
a landslide in a disputed Umaru Yar’Adua, died in
poll
Zimbabweans. power-sharing arrange-
Mugabe said foreign ment.
mining| companies had On Monday, the two until h4ay 9 to submit leaders delivered sharply a share transfer, different messages as the
te Indigenization country marked 31 years a home of ex-prime minEconomic of independence from ister Tertius Zongo, witicnt Act, Britain. Mugabe, 87, nesses said, line law in asked for an end to the Anti-Compaore pro-
foreign- power-sharing deal and testers
must for elections to be held "We want to make the
achievejM leMt SA per- Ihis vear. •> , ruling power ... look into
s at
black ^ownership i:dfsvahgif^;|wteJ^feour concerns" and estabnot get- to address the lish "truth and justice for Prime Minister Morgan Independence yflDay Uustin Zongo and all vicTsvangirai opposes crowds at Harare’s giant tims of repression", the Mugabe plans. National Sports Stadium, students said in a state"We are not afraid to wrote instead: “There are ment sent to the news declare our program pub- some among us who are agency AFP. Holy,** Mugabe said. “We determined to take this , They were referring to are saying, ’Britain and country back to the dark a student who died in a
Goodluck Jon wins Nigeri
presidential po
office. Jonathan, a vice president from the south, should have stepped down after completing his predecessor’s term of office. He did not, t
(GIN)—Religious
political loyalties appeal to have determined the outcome of Nigeria’s presidential poll over the past weekend, with northern states throwing
d( the nomn Buhari’s
their support behind los- rejecting the \ ote ing former military ruler and has filed a challenge. Muhammadu Buhari of They hav^also issued a the predominantly call to law and order as Muslim north, while the deadly.tints spread southern states backed through several northern incumbent President cities inf an apparent Goodluck Johnson of the protest of the result. f§|| predominantly ChristiaEfS Meanwhile, social
south. * Jonathan,
* medkit groupghat moni-
America, Ibis is Sour years of repression, vi<g February demonstration, accused of spreading bil-
who was tored reports of electoral
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country and we have a lence and intimidation... killed by police accord
abuse.
gave
right over its resources “1 hope we will all
to” 1 # " '
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^ ill.
diers "have not d their pay for the f March", said a lose to the gener-
lions in “walking around thumbs up to the votei;
money” as it is called in the United States, was declared winner Monday after t mark vote. He garnered 57 pe the vote total or 2
lion votes to received 1 votes or 31
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powers, citing the case of Protests spread against percent higher than this Buhari’s loss could review of the impact of Libyan strongman Burkina Faso president time a year ago, and the sound the death knell to our work - and also plan
Muammar Gaddafi, a pinch is being felt most an unwritten power-shar- for the journey ahead, political ally. (GIN)—Burkina Faso’s in some of the world’s ing arrangement which "Look at what they are President Blaise poorest and hungriest had handed the presidendoing to Gaddafi. He Compaore is struggling countries, many of which cy back and forth