France’s foreign minister said on Thursday that the transition in Mali needs to be quick, but that the coup d’etat in the country would not stop French military operations targeting Islamist militants. The leaders of the military coup that ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Mali on Aug. 18 have told a delegation of West…
Namibia Apartheid politician turned independence advocate dies of COVID-19
Dirk Mudge, a white Namibian who began his political life with the pro-Apartheid National Party but later lobbied for Namibia’s independence from South African white-minority rule, has died after contracting COVID-19, aged 92. He died in a hospital in the capital Windhoek late on Tuesday. A polarizing figure, Mudge’s opponents accused him of delaying Namibia’s…