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on that point, the military has<br />
agreed to set a clearer timeline<br />
for elections, ending military<br />
trials for civilians and lifting<br />
emergency laws. The military<br />
said it would also consider allowing<br />
international monitoring<br />
of the elections.<br />
aLmost 100 arrested this<br />
year at Lagos airport for<br />
drug trafficking<br />
Nigeria’s drug law enforcement<br />
agency said in a statement that<br />
it had arrested 82 men and 10<br />
women at the Lagos airport<br />
on suspicion of trafficking in<br />
drugs between January and<br />
September. Drugs worth $10<br />
million had also been confiscated<br />
during the same period.<br />
The agency vowed to intensify<br />
its battle against drug trafficking,<br />
which has been growing<br />
as Nigeria is used as a transit<br />
point for getting drugs into the<br />
US and European markets.<br />
Lam Akol returns to South Sudan (Reuters)<br />
specuLation mounts over<br />
mugabe’s heaLth<br />
Amid spin from his government,<br />
reports appear to have<br />
established that President<br />
Robert Mugabe returned to<br />
Zimbabwe on Sunday from an<br />
Asian country. Which country<br />
and what he was doing there<br />
is however still the subject of<br />
much speculation. The Zimbabwe<br />
Standard newspaper,<br />
quoting Mugabe’s information<br />
minister, reported that<br />
Mugabe was in Singapore<br />
– the seventh such visit this<br />
year – for a follow-up on a<br />
cataract operation he had<br />
earlier in the year. However,<br />
Mugabe told broadcasters on<br />
Monday that he was in Hong<br />
Kong visiting his daughter<br />
who is studying there.<br />
Mugabe’s frequent and secretive<br />
visits have fuelled speculation<br />
that his health may be<br />
in decline. A recent Wikileaks<br />
briefs<br />
report claiming that Mugabe<br />
has prostate cancer has added<br />
to speculation.<br />
cameroon separatist<br />
Leader under house<br />
arrest<br />
Africa Review reported that<br />
Cameroon’s government has<br />
placed Mola Njoh Litumbe<br />
– the man chosen by ex-pat<br />
Cameroonian separatists to<br />
lead a bid for independence<br />
for the English-speaking part<br />
of the country – under house<br />
arrest. Litumbe circulated a<br />
statement saying that when he<br />
tried to leave his house on Sunday,<br />
police outside stopped him<br />
from leaving, apparently under<br />
order from the governor of<br />
the country’s <strong>south</strong>ern region.<br />
Litumbe said the police gave no<br />
reason for his house arrest.<br />
exiLed <strong>south</strong> sudan Leader<br />
returns<br />
Lam Akol, leader of South Sudan’s<br />
official opposition, ended<br />
his months-long exile since the<br />
independence of the country<br />
in July, Africa review reported.<br />
Akol fled fearing arrest for<br />
his alleged association with a<br />
renegade general. His party, a<br />
break-away faction of the ruling<br />
Sudan People’s Liberation<br />
Movement, welcomed his return<br />
saying it marked the start<br />
of cooperative relationships<br />
between political parties in the<br />
country.<br />
tuesday - 4 october 2011
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