Event in Lesotho
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LESOTHO, 2015/08/19
Crisis-ridden Lesotho was on Monday passed over for the second year in a row as chair of Southern Africa’s premier body in charge of regional security.
The mountain kingdom’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili was supposed to take over the reigns from South Africa’s Jacob Zuma as chair of the Southern African Development Community’s Organ for Politics, Defence and Security.
But on Monday Zuma’s office announced at SADC’s summit here, that the year-long tenure had gone to Mozambique instead, represented by President Filipe Nyusi, and would go to Tanzania at next year’s summit.
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BOTSWANA, 2015/07/29
Barack Obama has chided African leaders who refuse to give up power in his initial speech at the African Union headquarters by a US president.
The scolding came in the course of his address on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to the 54-member continental bloc.
"Africa's democratic evolution is as well at risk at the same time as leaders refuse to step aside at the same time as their terms end," Obama said. "No one should be president for life."
