BY NANGAYI GUYSON – Maputo – Authorities in Mozambique have arrested at least 150 people over last week’s riots in which 10 people were killed, the country’s state-run radio reported on Monday. Mozambique’s capital Maputo was rocked last week by the riots. Protests also erupted in the central town of Chimoio and Matola, an industrial suburb of the capital. According to Reuters, police spokesperson Joaquim Selemane was quoted saying police were attempting to identify the ringleaders of the protests, which were organised by cell phone text messages and which left hundreds of people injured. He told reporters that 142 people... Continue Reading
BY NANGAYI GUYSON IN KAMPALA UGANDA – Khartoum – At least seven people have been killed and 20 injured in clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region by armed men on Saturday in a sign of mounting violence in and around the area’s displacement centres, peacekeepers said. The clashes came two days after rebels said pro-government fighters killed up to 54 people at a market in North Darfur’s Tabarat village. Most of the reported victims were residents of a nearby refugee camp. According to Darfur’s joint UN/African Union (Unamid) peacekeeping force , gunfire broke out at the Hamidiya... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Correspondent – It was the worst violence in Mozambique since 2008. Mozambique police kept a close watch over the capital Maputo on Saturday after three days of riots over food and fuel price hikes that left ten people dead. No new cases of unrest had been reported since last night, when three police officers were injured in clashes with demonstrators, police officials said. “Three police were injured when protesters threw stones at them. When we tried to stop them some people threw stones and other objects at police,” said police spokesman Arnaldo Chefo. Ten people were killed and... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Correspondents – Egypt’s most prominent democracy advocate accused President Hosni Mubarak’s government Saturday of posting Facebook photos of his daughter in swimsuits and at events where alcohol was served in an attempt to discredit him. Mohammed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.N. nuclear chief, was quoted in the independent Al-Dustour newspaper as saying the government is “waging a campaign of sheer lies” by using the photos to portray him and his family as nonbelievers — a politically damaging accusation in an increasingly conservative Muslim country. The Facebook photos were an unusual personal attack on him... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News – CAIRO – The bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians who adopt Western lifestyles and values. His followers beat up an opponent. That is the image of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood depicted in a TV miniseries airing in Egypt that casts a harsh light on the country’s largest opposition movement just three months before a crucial parliamentary election that is expected to pit it against President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party. Supporters accuse the government of... Continue Reading
