BAMAKO, July 20 (Reuters) - Mali's interim President Assimi Goita was the target of an attempted stabbing attack during Eid al-Adha prayers at Bamako's Grand Mosque, the West African nation's presidency said in a statement on Twitter on Tuesday.
"The attacker was immediately overpowered by security. Investigations are ongoing," the presidency said.
Two military sources told Reuters that Goita was unharmed following the attack.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The corruption trial of former South African president Jacob Zuma, who is currently in prison, has been postponed to August 10 as it is decided whether he must be physically present in the courtroom or can appear via video from where he is in detention.
PIETERMARITZBURG (South Africa), July 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The long-running corruption trial of South Africa’s jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma to resume virtually on Monday, despite deadly violence that swept the nation after his imprisonment in an unrelated case.
Zuma faces 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering related to the 1999 purchase of fighter jets, patrol boats and military gear from five European arms firms when he was deputy president.
KIGALI, July 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 285 asylum seekers who were stranded in Libya and hosted in Rwanda have been relocated to third countries, the Rwandan government said.
It comes as a new group of 133 asylum seekers arrived in the East African country.
Upon arrival early Friday, the sixth group was subjected to coronavirus tests before being sent to the Gashora Emergency Transit Centre in eastern Rwanda.
The evacuated asylum seekers, including women and children, are from Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria July 17 (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted at least 60 people and killed one person in northwestern Nigeria after riding motorbikes into five villages and firing sporadically into the air, a police official and several residents said on Saturday.
Nigeria is battling an increase in armed robberies and kidnappings for ransom, mainly in northwestern areas, where thinly stretched security forces often fail to stop the abductions.
17 July 2021; MEMO: Amnesty International today urged the Ethiopian authorities to end arbitrary detention of Tigrayans, Anadolu Agency reports.
In a statement, the global human rights watchdog said: "The arrests appear to be ethnically motivated, with former detainees, witnesses and lawyers describing how police checked identity documents before arresting people and taking them to detention centres."
MOGADISHU, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Somali National Army (SNA) said Saturday that its forces killed a senior al-Shabab terrorist in Middle Shabelle, central part of the country.
The SNA said Nuh Dhagool, who was leading the operation to extort the local populace to fund the group's activities in town, was killed Friday night.
"The terrorist was the head of extortion in the coastal area," the military said in a brief statement.
16 July 2021; MEMO: The Paris Club of official creditors has agreed to cancel $14 billion owed by Sudan and restructure the rest of the more than $23 billion it owes, Paris Club Chairman Emmanuel Moulin said today Reuters reported.
A deal was reached yesterday with Moulin urging Sudan's other private and public creditors to grant the country debt relief on the same terms.
JOHANNESBURG, July 16 (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday he would not allow "anarchy and mayhem" to prevail and suggested that a wave of looting and arson that has destroyed hundreds of businesses had been deliberately provoked.
Ramaphosa said his government was doing all it could to deal with the unrest that has killed more than 100 people in the past week.
KINSHASA, July 15 (Reuters) - Former Congolese Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon has been freed from house arrest after he agreed to make himself available to answer questions about the alleged misappropriation of government funds, his lawyer said.
The house arrest order was lifted late on Wednesday, said the lawyer, Laurent Onyemba.
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