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South Africa playing a high-stakes game as president and treasury square off
Guardian Africa network South Africa playing a high-stakes game as president and treasury square off
Claims that businessmen close to Zuma offered deputy minister a cabinet job provides latest twist ahead of crucial succession battle -
North Korea: UN investigator outlines 15-point plan to deal with Kim Jong-unMichael Kirby, who found evidence of systematic human rights abuses in the DPRK, suggests ways to address the ‘existential threat’ it poses
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Who else has North Korea locked up for 'crimes against the state'?As student Otto Warmbier joins two westerners currently detained in the DPRK, we look at the other victims of Pyongyang’s erratic detention system
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Why North Korea might not be bluffing about its nuclear plansSkeptics have dismissed the threat posed by Pyongyang’s weapons programme but the regime has a track record of getting there – eventually
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Angola's president says he's giving up 37-year rule. Should we believe him?In a shock move that’s inspired much scepticism, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos claims he’ll be leaving office in 2018. The Daily MaverickQuiz: how much do you know about Africa’s ‘presidents for life’?
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By matching Moscow's paranoia, the west plays into Putin's handsOnly propagandists and arms dealers benefit from the regular claims that everything is being ‘weaponised’ by the Kremlin
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You may free apartheid killers but you can't force their victims to forgiveWife of slain South African leader Chris Hani lashes out as judge orders the release of his murderer and tells his family to ‘move on’
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Moscow restaurant draws on collective Soviet nostalgia – and adds a salad barNamed after communal housing in the days of the USSR, Kommunalka features an authentic menu, homemade vodka and a washing line
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South Sudan journalist kidnapped and torturedReporter who criticised goverment is attacked soon after being released from detention by security services as media crackdown intensifies
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Why Ukraine needs Russia more than everAs the country risks becoming a failed state, Kiev must recognise that economic survival depends on Moscow not the west
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Russia warns North Korea over threats of nuclear strikeOne of Pyongyang’s few remaining allies says country is in danger of creating legal grounds for international military intervention. NK News reports
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Waiting for Trump: watching US elections in TehranIranians ponder the possible implications of the US presidential election on the future of the nuclear agreement
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The Syrian refugee restaurateurs spicing up Armenian cuisineChefs and bakers fleeing the civil war are transforming Yerevan’s food culture with new eateries offering Middle Eastern recipes. Eurasianet.org reports
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North Korea steps up army recruitment ahead of US military exerciseBiggest ever joint exercise planned across the border prompts DPRK regime to launch mass recruitment drive. Daily NK reports
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Hi, my name is Evita and I'm a racistAs South African students protest over ongoing inequality, the nation’s beloved fictional character enters the debate on white privilege
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Tears and hashtags as Chechens beg leader Ramzan Kadyrov not to quit Posts of crying children and adoring crowds flood Instagram as the pro-Russia strongman hints he may step down. RFE/RL reports
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30 Sudanese journalists launch country's biggest ever hunger strikeReporters protest against the forced closure of El Tayar, as the newspaper’s editor-in-chief faces the death penalty
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Crimea hands out military draft papers to newborn boysRussian authorities in annexed territory celebrate Soviet holiday by telling male infants to report for duty in 2032. Meduza reports
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‘Tehran is now free': Iranians celebrate reformist victory onlineAs moderate-leaning candidates lead in the capital, citizens turn to social media to take aim at conservative hardliners, RFE/RL reports
Guardian Africa network Knives are out for Jacob Zuma as South Africa's Guptagate grows