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South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the churchman's death marked "another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans". He said Archbishop Tutu had helped bequeath "a liberated South Africa". Tutu was one of the country's best known figures at home and abroad. A contemporary of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, he was was one of the driving forces behind the movement to end the policy of racial segregation and…

Burkina Faso Government Resigns Over Insecurity Burkina Faso is one of the world’s poorest countries and its armed forces are ill-equipped to tackle highly mobile jihadists. Burkina Faso’s premier and Government resigned on Wednesday, following protests over their inability to prevent Jihadist attacks. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore accepted the resignation letter presented to him by Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire, in accordance with a presidential decree. According to the law of Burkina Faso, the resignation of a prime minister requires the resignation of the entire government. Dabire, on his Facebook page urged citizens to “support the president… and…

Son of the former Libyan leader, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has registered as a presidential candidate for the December 24 poll, the country’s electoral commission says. While Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi is likely to play on nostalgia for the era before the 2011 uprising that swept his father from power, analysts say he may not be a front runner, AlJazeera reports. “Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi submitted … his candidacy for the presidential election to the High National Electoral Commission office in the [southern] city of Sebha,” a statement by the commission said on Sunday. Gaddafi is one of the most prominent…