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U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign staff amid sliding poll numbers and signs of disarray, U.S. media reported early on Wednesday.

    Trump made senior advisor Kellyanne Conway his campaign manager, and Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen Bannon has been brought on as the campaign's chief executive, the New York Times reported citing Conway.

Paul Manafort would remain as campaign chair, it said. The Washington Post cited campaign aides as saying that while Trump respected Manafort, he felt "'boxed in' and 'controlled' by people "who barely knew him".

Manafort was forced to deny any impropriety this week after the New York Times reported his name was on secret ledgers showing cash payments designated to him of more than $12 million from a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russia. Manafort has denied impropriety.

Manafort took on the role in March after Trump fired his predecessor Corey Lewandowski.

The shakeup comes as opinion polls show Trump, a wealthy New York businessman who has never held elected office, falling behind Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the race for the Nov. 8 election.

The Wall Street Journal said on Monday in an editorial that Trump should fix his stumbling White House campaign by Labor Day on Sept. 5 or step down.

Reuters

 

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The Former Delegate General in-charge of National Security in Cameroon, Pierre Minlo’o has passed away. The veteran administrator died Tuesday , August 16, 2016 at the CNPS hospital in Yaoundé at the age 86 years old.Pierre MINLOO MEDJO was DGSN for four years, between (2000- 2004)

The Former Delegate General for National Security has held several high positions in the Biya's administration, amongst others as director of presidential security, a position he held for 15 years.

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A Malawian man accused of sleeping with 100 girls and women in a series of ritual cleansing acts, on Monday failed in his second bid to be freed on bail.

Prosecutor Christopher Botoman opposed the bail request for Eric Aniva over fears that he could “intimidate and influence” witnesses not to testify in court.

Given the “nature and seriousness of the offence and the severity of the punishment if convicted” it would “not be in the interest of justice to release the accused on bail.”

Malawi, which has one of the highest HIV infections in the world, criminalises sex with a person under the age of 16.

The prosecution also said the 45-year-old — who has said he is infected with the AIDS virus — was likely to jump bail and cross the border into Mozambique.

But Aniva, whose first bid to secure bail was earlier this month, rejected the idea, saying he was “not scared” to face trial.

The little-known local practice of having sex with adolescent girls to mark their passage to womanhood is performed in southern Malawi by men known as “hyenas” at the behest of a girl’s parents after her first menstruation.

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Tanzania is mourning Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi, President of Zanzibar until 1984

Mzee Jumbe died at the age of 96 in the East African nation’s capital Dar es Salaam.  Mzee Jumbe ruled from 1972 until 1984 until he was forced by the ruling party, CCM, to resign.

“During his leadership, he played a key role in building and defending the Tanzania we see today” spoke President Magufuli of the Mzee Jumbe 

Mzee Jumbe was President of ASP while Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was President of TANU. He succeeded late Abeid Amani Karume as president, following his assassination in 1972 according to the Daily News.

“Mzee Aboud Jumbe will be remembered for being committed to what he believed in. He was stripped of all his leadership posts for defending a three-tier union government. He leaves behind a legacy–in the form of a memoir–that can be used as a platform to learn more about our country,” said ACT-Wazalendo party leader Kabwe, according to the citizen

ABOUD JUMBE MWINYI: FACTFILE

• Born: June 14, 1920
• Positions held: Second President of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Vice- President of the Union, and the Vice-Chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. 
• President of Zanzibar from April 11, 1972 until January 30, 1984.
• He succeeded Sheikh Abeid Karume as Zanzibar president following Karume’s assassination on April 7, 1972. He also became President of the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP). While in office, on February 5, 1977, ASP and Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), merged to form CCM.
• In 1979, Jumbe introduced the first post-revolution constitution of Zanzibar. This separated the powers of the Revolutionary Council and the House of Representatives.
• The new constitution established elections by universal suffrage, instead of being elected by the Revolutionary Council.

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Fourteen former Cameronian hostages recently freed in Central African Republic arrived Garoua, the regional capital of the North, by Camair-Co flight  yesterday 14th Agust 2016.

The hostages were freed in an operation by the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Central Africa,in the night of 8-9 July 2016 after spending over a year in captivity at the hands of  a rebel group from the Central African Republic.

The Cameroonian former hostages were in Yaounde ever since their release.While in the nation's capital, they received medical care and an audience by the Prime Minister of Cameroon who was acting On behalf of the President of Cameroon, Paul Biya.

Upon their capture on the 19th of March 2015 ,one of the hostages, Abakai said, the group was divided into pairs and chained at the leg and abdomen and, at times, the hands. Two people were given a liter of water to share for 24 hours, and they ate the same meal, once a day, for 16 months. One captive reportedly was held for 18 months.The captives were allowed to go to the toilet twice a day, at 10 a.m. and at 5 p.m.

The captives lost hope, Abakai said, when rebels told them that if the government of Cameroon did not pay for their liberation by July 31, 2016, they would be killed.

Abakai said two of the hostages died in those deplorable conditions, and he expressed gratitude to God and the government of Cameroon for helping to save his life. He did not know if ransoms were paid.

Captive Daouda Abdoulaye, 48, said the armed men told them they were members of a movement fighting for liberation of the Central African Republic; they vowed to kill the hostages if the government of Cameroon refused to pay undisclosed sums of money to secure their release.

A group of soldiers armed with rifles, claiming to belong to the Democratic Front for Central African People, led by Aboubakar Sidiki, took the captives to the bush, where they were tortured every morning, Abdoulaye said. They were kept in villages, away from other human settlements.

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