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South African official urges MPs to block ombudsman inquiry

Bloomberg A senior official in South Africa’s ruling party said the government should reject an attempt to impeach the country’s public prosecutor, according to the Sunday Times. According to Ace Magashule, a motion to investigate Busisiwe Mkhwebane is a strategy by the main opposition party to divide the governing African National Congress. The motion from the opposition Democratic Alliance for ...

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Unrest grows in Senegal as protests rage

Bloomberg Anti-government activists in Senegal announced three days of nationwide protests from Monday as death toll in most violent demonstrations in years rise to five, triggered by the arrest of the country’s main opposition leader. The opposition called on Senegalese people “to pursue its mobilisation and peaceful struggle by using all of its constitutional rights to reject dictatorship of Macky ...

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Paraguay president upends cabinet amid protests

Bloomberg Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benitez said he will name new cabinet ministers amid unrest over his government’s handling of the pandemic that has left at least one person dead. In an address to the nation, Abdo Benitez said he would name a new cabinet chief as well as new health and education ministers in the coming hours “for the ...

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