[wanabidii] Killing of Lesotho ex-army chief, arrests deepen instability as MPs and lawyers stage boycott over security (M&G Africa)

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30 Jun 2015

Killing of Lesotho ex-army chief, arrests deepen instability as MPs and lawyers stage boycott over security   A military court document lists the names of 45 soldiers detained on suspicion of planning a mutiny.

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Uganda 2016 vote hots up; opposition's Besigye plans to take on president Museveni for fourth time   Uganda leader is one of longest-serving African rulers after Equatorial Guinea's Nguema, Angola's dos Santos, Zimbabwe's Mugabe and Cameroon's Biya.

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