[wanabidii] ‘I’m open to going or not going’, Rwanda’s Kagame reveals, but says term limits shouldn’t be changed (M&G Africa)

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08 Apr 2015

'I'm open to going or not going', Rwanda's Kagame reveals, but says term limits shouldn't be changed   A big part of the global "Brand Kagame" could well be lost if he continues in office; and his enemies just can't wait for the moment.

Terrorists kill 4 Tunisian soldiers; Africa watches nervously if Arab Spring poster child can hold up   For the continent, a failure in Tunisia would send the message that popular uprisings are in vain, because nothing good comes of them in the end.

African chiefs and their planes: South Africa plans to splash on three jets for Zuma & Co.   From state-owned companies to prosecution services, tax collectors to police, South Africa's most important institutions are battling themselves.

These African leaders lived opulently. Here are the sad shells of their once posh palaces   In Benghazi traders turned Gaddafi's more than 10-hectare palace grounds and barracks into a marketplace to sell birds, dogs and other pets.

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African countries and the death penalty: A bad relationship they want to, but just can't, give up Mass rulings in Egypt and Nigeria increase death sentence rates worldwide

Stench of death envelopes Kenya massacre university's halls, with signs of painful ordeal everywhere It "bodies everywhere in execution lines... people whose heads had been blown off, bullet wounds everywhere, it was a grisly mess," said a medic.

A trade dispute with flying feathers: South Africa, US meet to resolve chicken fight In 2000 a commission sought provisional duties on U.S. frozen whole chickens, drumsticks, leg quarters, breasts and thighs going to South Africa.

Zimbabwe inflation expected to remain below 0% in 2015 – for the wrong reasons, though The Zim dollar, abandoned in 2009 after inflation hit 500 billion percent, isn't likely to be reintroduced until the economy normalises.

By succeeding, they fail: Al-Shabaab and its 'jihad dilemma' "Most of their top strategic thinkers are now dead. So I think all they want at this point is to go out in a blaze of glory."

Are we Africans, like the 'bad' white man claimed, no longer able to keep our spaces clean? On April 1, Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai would have marked her 75th birthday. She would most likely turn in her grave now.

Actress Pamela Anderson pleads with Zimbabwe to stop export of baby elephants African elephants could be extinct in the wild within a few decades due to poaching for ivory.

Very terrifying map of Africa: How desert, and best friend water, could be our worst enemies At least 25% of Africa's population lives within 100km of a sea coast. Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Lagos, Abidjan, Nouakchott should be afraid.

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