DR CONGO PRESIDENT PARDONS COUP PLOTTERS OF AMERICAN ORIGIN. (PHOTO).

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 DR Congo president pardons coup plotters of American origin    President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi has granted a presidential pardon to several coup plotters of American origin, who had been sentenced to death, according to official sources, Xinhua reported. Marcel Malanga, born in Utah, United States, and two other Americans who were sentenced to death last September, "will not be executed, as the death penalty is commuted," said Tina Salama, spokesperson for the DRC presidency late Tuesday. Tshisekedi has ordered the commutation of Marcel Malanga's sentence to life imprisonment, said Salama, adding that the measure also applies to the other American nationals convicted. Thirty-seven alleged coup plotters were convicted and sentenced to death in September last year by a Kinshasa military court in a trial against the failed coup. The coup plotters attacked the residence of Vital Kamerhe, then vice-prime minister, before targeting the ...

SHOPRITE IN MOZAMBIQUE HAS SUFFERED EXTENSIVE LOOTING AMID ONGOING POLITICAL UNREST. (VIDEO/PHOTO).

 


 Shoprite in Mozambique has suffered extensive looting amid ongoing political unrest, and will require millions of meticals in repairs before it can reopen.

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Mozambique president-elect urges 'unity' amid unrest


Mozambique's president-elect Daniel Chapo has called for "non-violence" and "unity", after widespread rioting this week sparked by his ruling party's contested election win, Reuters reported.


Chapo, who said he "regretted" the violence, promised that after his inauguration in mid-January, he would be "the president of all" in the southern African country, despite opposition claims of vote-rigging.


Some businesses including banks were closed in Mozambique's capital Maputo on Friday and patrols were set up in some areas following a deadly prison riot and breakout on Wednesday.


Mozambique has been gripped by violent protests for about two months since the electoral commission said the ruling Frelimo party had retained power and its candidate won the presidency in the election.


Frelimo denies opposition accusations of electoral fraud.


Mozambique's main opposition leader Venancio Mondlane, who the Constitutional Council said had come second in the presidential election and who rejects the results, has called for more protests from his supporters but urged them not to loot and damage infrastructure.


Frelimo has ruled Mozambique since the end of the war against Portuguese colonial rule in 1975.


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