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Zambia Elections

It’s a tight presidential race between President Edgar Lungu, Patriotic Front (PF) and the opposition Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND). Each candidate must win over 50% of the vote to avoid a run-off. There are nine presidential candidates each with running mates to avoid a presidential by-election if the president dies in office, which has happened twice in…

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Feisal Mohammed was found guilty of possession of 413 pieces of ivory worth at least $400,00 and sentenced to 20 years in jail. Link in bio. #AfricanCapsule #FeisalMohammed #ivorysmuggler #poaching #ivory

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He’s songs are about 5-6 minutes long, so think wisely before you accept that dance. 60 year old “Loi” singer Koffi Olomide, one of Africa’s biggest musicians, was arrested and deported after he was filmed kicking a woman at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. Link in bio. #AfricanCapsule #KoffiOlomide #CongoleseRumba #africanews

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Could this be the waking up call for Zimbabweans? The country’s war veterans’ association, which played a key and sometimes violent role in supporting President Robert Mugabe, has released a statement withdrawing its support for the dictator. Link in bio. #AfricanCapsule #Zimbabwe #Mugabe #africanews

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Zimbabwe’s war veterans cut ties with Mugabe. Koffi Olamide deported from Kenya. Most wanted ivory smuggler sentenced to 20 years in jail.

Zimbabwe’s war veterans cut ties with Mugabe. Koffi Olamide deported from Kenya. Most wanted ivory smuggler sentenced to 20 years in jail.

NO MORE HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL Could this be the waking up call for Zimbabweans? The country’s war veterans’ association, which played a key and sometimes violent role in supporting President Robert Mugabe, has released a statement withdrawing its support for the dictator. The statement accuses Mr. Mugabe of dictatorial tendencies, egocentrism and misrule. The veterans further accused the…

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Lamiya Aji Bashar, an 18-year-old Yazidi girl who escaped her Islamic State group enslavers, talks to The Associated Press in northern Iraq in this May 5, 2016 photo. She described how she was abducted along with her sisters and brothers when IS overran her village in 2014 and was passed around from militant to militant, trying to escape many times. Finally she succeeded in March, but only after a mine exploded, killing two girls fleeing with her and leaving Bashar’s face scarred and blinding her in one eye. #APPhoto by @balintszlanko To learn more about this story and see the full photo essay, visit blog.apimages.com - link at profile #Yazidi #LamiyaAjiBashar #IslamicState #slavery #mine #news #BalintSzlanko #AP #photojournalism #AssociatedPress

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#WithMyBookbag I read "The Dork Diaries" to my little brother. 😜 ____ #STFScholar Kalkidan G. reads funny books her little brother Nite, 5, at their home with our Ethiopian partner @selamtaproject. According to Kalkidan, this book is "like real school life!" ____ 📸: @katelordphoto #Ethiopia #GirlsEducation #Reading #Siblings @dorkdiaries

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How will Brexit Impact Africa? Link in bio. #africancapsule #brexit #Africa #BrexitImpactonAfrica

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Brexit impact on Africa

Brexit impact on Africa

BRITAIN OUT! CAMERON OUT! On Thursday 23 June more than 30 million people voted on a referendum on whether the UK should leave or remain in the European Union. Leave won by 52% to 48%. The referendum turnout, at 71.8%, was the highest turnout in a UK-wide vote since the 1992 general election. Take about falling on your own sword… In 2013, besieged by the increasingly assertive anti-European Union…

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Former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for rape and pillage committed by his troops, becoming the highest-level official to be handed down a sentence at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Link in bio. #AfricanCapsule #JeanPierreBemba #DRC #ICC #Africanews #internationalcriminalcourt

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DRC former rebel leader and vice-president sentenced to 18 years in prison.

DRC former rebel leader and vice-president sentenced to 18 years in prison.

FROM SILVER SPOON TO STEEL BRACELETS Former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for rape and pillage committed by his troops, becoming the highest-level official to be handed down a sentence at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mr. Bemba faced three war crimes counts and two counts of crimes against humanity before the ICC in a case related to…

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Rome's first female mayor! In Italy on Sunday, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement candidate Virginia Raggi, a little-known lawyer and former member of Rome’s city council, won a surprising victory. Raggi, who received over 35 percent of the vote, is now predicted to beat the center-left Roberto Giachetti, who came in second this week with 25 percent of the vote, in a June 19 runoff election. A victory will make her Rome’s first female mayor in history and signal a change in the political tides in Italy. #AfricanCapsule #VirginiaRaggi #Rome #FirstFemaleMayor #Italy #mayor

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Truth! #AfricanCapsule #AfricanProverbs #AfricanWisdom

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Beauty is all I see... #AfricanCapsule #africabeauty

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At the conclusion of a landmark trial in the global fight against impunity for atrocities, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, Hissène Habré, former dictator of Chad from 1982 until 1990, was found guilty of crimes against humanity, summary execution, torture and rape and was sentenced to life in prison. Link in bio. #AfricanCapsule #africanews #Chad #Senegal #ReedBrody #hissenehabre #EAC

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Former Chad dictator sentenced to life in prison.

Former Chad dictator sentenced to life in prison.

AFRICA TO WORLD: WE CAN BRING POWERFUL LEADERS TO JUSTICE At the conclusion of a landmark trial in the global fight against impunity for atrocities, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, Hissène Habré, former dictator of Chad from 1982 until 1990, was found guilty of crimes against humanity, summary execution, torture and rape and was sentenced to life in prison. Former Chadian…

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Militant Islamists attack a Mogadishu hotel. Famous Kenyan writer attacked in Germany. Alleged mastermind of the April 2015 Garissa University attack killed. Zanzibar introduces first state pension plan.

Militant Islamists attack a Mogadishu hotel. Famous Kenyan writer attacked in Germany. Alleged mastermind of the April 2015 Garissa University attack killed. Zanzibar introduces first state pension plan.

MILITANT ISLAMISTS ATTACK A MOGADISHU HOTEL On Wednesday al-Shabab militants, who have a strong presence in Somalia, stormed the Ambassador Hotel in Mogadishu, which is mostly frequented by business executives, government officials and diplomats, and opened fire. The scene of a suicide car bombing outside the Ambassador Hotel on Maka Al Mukaram Road in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, June 1, 2016.…