“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...

RISK OF ETHNIC GENOCIDE 'VERY HIGH' IN SUDAN- UN. (PHOTO).


 Risk of ethnic genocide 'very high' in Sudan: UN


The risk of genocide in Sudan's devastating civil war remains "very high", amid alleged ethnically motivated attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the UN warned on Monday, AFP reported.


Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.


"The risk of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan remains very high," said Acting Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, Virginia Gamba.


The fighting has killed tens of thousands and displaced 13 million, including four million who fled abroad, triggering what the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis.


"Both parties have committed serious human rights violations," said Gamba who is also a UN under-secretary.


"Of specific concern to my mandate is the continued and targeted attacks against certain ethnic groups, particularly in the Darfur and Kordofan regions," she told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.


She added in particular that the RSF and allied armed Arab militias "continue to conduct ethnically motivated attacks against the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur groups".

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