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Month: June 2019

Africa 

Algeria detains businessman in corruption investigation – radio

Village Reporter
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria has detained businessman Hassan Larbaoui in an anti-corruption investigation launched after protests ended the rule of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, state radio said on Friday. Larbaoui is director of a private company called Global Group, which runs a car assembly plant set up in joint venture with South Korea’s Kia Motors. Bouteflika stepped down on April 2… Read More
Africa 

Italy protests Swiss delay in releasing evidence in Nigeria graft case

Village Reporter
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors have complained to Switzerland about lengthy delays in obtaining evidence they have requested in an international corruption case involving oil firms Shell and Eni, a source familiar with the matter said. Milan prosecutors wrote in April to the Geneva prosecutors’ office in a previously undisclosed letter, describing their three-year wait for documents to be handed… Read More
Africa 

Sudan junta deputy says rogues behind June 3 chaos identified

Village Reporter
The deputy chief of Sudan’s ruling military council said Thursday the military has identified the perpetrators of the violent dispersal of a pro-democracy sit-in earlier this month, but said he won’t reveal their identities because of an ongoing investigation. Sudan’s security forces violently swept away a camp of demonstrators in the capital of Khartoum on June 3. They had been… Read More
Africa 

South Africa president delivers State of the Nation, opposition critique

Village Reporter
South Africa’s president declared Thursday the country’s struggling state-owned power utility Eskom “cannot be allowed to fail” and said he wants more funding to keep it afloat after its cash runs out in October. President Cyril Ramaphosa in his first State of the Nation address since last month’s election acknowledged “enormous and severe challenges” including the economy’s sharpest decline in… Read More
Africa 

Despite peace deal, Central African Republic’s population faces daily acts of violence, UN envoy warns

Village Reporter
In a briefing, Mankeur Ndiaye, head of the UN Mission to the country, known by the French acronym, MINUSCA, made reference to the “cowardly killing” of 39 people by members of the “3R” armed group – one of the signatories to the accord – in the Ouham-Pendé region of the country on May 21, which led to some 12,000 people being displaced from their homes.  … Read More
Human Rights 

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder ‘an international crime’, says UN-appointed rights investigator

Village Reporter
“Subsequently, I have undertaken far more work in the context and subsequences of the crimes, and in particular I have reviewed and analyzed the evidence collected in Turkey and elsewhere on the basis of international human rights law”, she said. These findings are the basis of her 100-page report looking at the various forms of State’s responsibilities for Mr. Khashoggi’s… Read More