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The African News and Politics Thread

andruid

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South Sudan warring parties have agreed to delay the formation of a unity government by 100 days, avoiding a possible return to violence as warned by local civil society groups.
The resolution was reached on Thursday in Entebbe, Uganda after President Yoweri Museveni hosted South Sudan leaders for a meeting.
It means President Salva Kiir, his former Vice President Riek Machar and other splinter groups who signed the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (RARCSS), will not be forming a transitional unity government on November 12 as earlier decided.
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South Sudan Unity government postponed yet again
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/ne...-government/4552908-5340730-3pdmxbz/index.htm

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The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda on Thursday to 30 years in prison for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers.
Ntaganda, 46, was found guilty in July on 18 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for acts committed when he was military operations chief at the Union of Congolese Patriots(UPC) militia in east Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002-2003.
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Justice for DRC as warlord gets 30 years https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/ne...ars-in-jail/4552902-5340136-rj9n7b/index.html
 
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andruid

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Terrifyingly sad what is going on in Mozambique

I left Beira on Saturday at around 9am. About an hour and a half out going west to Chimoio, I encountered huge flood waters crossing this main newly built highway - vast amounts of water half a metre deep, six to seven kilometres (four to five miles) wide.

I managed to get through this and reached a little sugar town called Lamego. It was here that I became stranded, as ahead it turned out was a further 7km of flooded road, and where I witnessed the most horrific scene.
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StephenZA

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andruid said:
Yes there was. Paradoxically the rest of the region is suffering severe drought.
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Not much being said about this... but it is a severe issue, that is just going to get worse.

phys.org/news/2019-11-drought-parches-southern-africa-millions.html
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-29-forget-el-nino-drought-is-already-scorching-southern-africas-economies/
city-press.news24.com/News/4-day-outages-for-zims-parched-bulawayo-as-water-supply-dwindles-20200102

Much of these problems are not just about the drought, but also the poor and corrupt governance. But people in these southern african countries are going to struggle to cope as climate change produces extreme weather patterns. .
 
Magrat Garlick

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StephenZA said:
Not much being said about this... but it is a severe issue, that is just going to get worse.

phys.org/news/2019-11-drought-parches-southern-africa-millions.html
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-29-forget-el-nino-drought-is-already-scorching-southern-africas-economies/
city-press.news24.com/News/4-day-outages-for-zims-parched-bulawayo-as-water-supply-dwindles-20200102

Much of these problems are not just about the drought, but also the poor and corrupt governance. But people in these southern african countries are going to struggle to cope as climate change produces extreme weather patterns. .
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a drought due to corrupt and failing government, can't possibly see what analogues this has to other CW threads
 
andruid

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Magrat Garlick said:
a drought due to corrupt and failing government, can't possibly see what analogues this has to other CW threads
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That article doesn't even take into account post harvest losses due to poorly maintained storage facilities, xad transport and outright grain theft. In East Africa there are places where excess of 50% of maize harvests are lost due to mismanagement.
 
StephenZA

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While SA continues to fight the xenophobia in the country the government makes sure it does its part!

businessinsider.co.za/rules-update-bans-refugees-in-south-africa-from-politics-2020

Refugees now face deportation from South Africa if they engage in any political activity related to their country of origin – including voting in elections.

Asylum seekers and refugees have also been explicitly banned from any involvement in South African politics – just as SA erects a "paper wall" against immigration.

The changes, plus limitations on employment and other new rules, came into effect on 1 January.
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StephenZA

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SeamUp

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SA actually building a 40km x 1.8m high fence on the border to Zimbabwe because of the Coronavirus.
 
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