ZIMBABWEAN COUPLE DEPORTED OVER SECRET BURIAL OF CHILD IN BOTSWANA.(PHOTO)
ZIMBABWEAN COUPLE DEPORTED OVER SECRET BURIAL OF CHILD IN BOTSWANA A Zimbabwean couple has been deported from Botswana after secretly burying their child without notifying authorities. Motilinah Mpofu and Christopher Ncube were convicted on Thursday of concealing a death after they allegedly dug a grave for their child in the dead of night. The Gaborone court heard the child had died suddenly. Instead of reporting the death to police, health officials, or traditional leaders, the couple quietly buried the youngster and hoped no one would find out. But the secret did not stay buried for long. Police moved in and arrested the pair. In sentencing, the court ordered that the couple be taken to the Plumtree Border Post for deportation to Zimbabwe. Top Botswana lawyer Winnie Masitha who offered the couple free legal representation during the trial, confirmed the deportation to BTV News. Masitha believed that the matter should not be viewed only through the lens of crim...
Today wednesday,South Sudan's president signed a peace deal to end a 20 month conflict with rebels but he told regional African leaders at the ceremony in Juba that he had serious reservations.President Salva Kiir,who led South Sudan since it seeded from Sudan in 2011,asked for more time for consultations last week,drawing threats of UN sanctions if he failed to sign the peace deal with a two week deadline.Kiir said ''With all those reservations that we have,we will sign this document''.His long time rival and rebel leader Riek Machar,who is expected to become the first vice president under the deal,signed the document since last week in the Ethiopian capital.The conflict erupted in December 2013 after a power struggle between Machar,an ethnic Nuer,and Kiir from the dominant Dinka group.The deal follows month of on off negotiations,hosted by Ethiopia,and several broken ceasefire agreements.Rebels said they captured a town South of Juba today wednesday after their troops were attacked,and that there had been others fighting with government forces.Kiir told the ceremony that rebels launched a raid in the north of the county earlier in the day.''Now you can see who is for peace and who is for continued war''.Machar was Kiir's deputy until he was sacked in 2013 under the deal,he is expected to become Kiir's top deputy again.One more photo below. 
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