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US announced on Thursday that it has imposed sanctions against the chief of Kinshasa police in the Democratic Republic of Congo for allegedly being involved in violence against civilians. General Celestin Kanyama is accused of making illegal arrest, brutally dispersing demonstrations, kidnappings that have multiplied over the last several months reports RFI.

Gen. Kanyama is the first senior security official in the DRC to receive such measures. The US Government has frozen his assets and barred Americans from transacting with him.

The US is sending a clear message that is condemns the violence against violence in the DRC. According to the special envoy to the Great Lakes Region in Africa believes that the United States has given sufficient time to the personalities involved in violence to change lanes. For months the US had been threatening of sanctions if the violence didn’t desist.

According to the US, President Joseph Kabila’s regime is repressing the people as the President’s tenure comes to an end this year. Kabila is expected to leave power because he has served his two terms allowed by the constitution, but his government has been delaying organizing elections.

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Angola’s President Jose’ Eduardo has confessed that his country is broke. He attributed the situation to failure of the national oil company to remit cash to the government.

Angola is the second-largest crude oil producer in Africa and the country relies on crude exports for two-thirds of its tax revenues and 95 per cent of its foreign currency exchange.

According to the United Nations, 38 per cent of the 26 million Angolans still live in poverty despite the country’s economy growth of more than 7 per cent annually.

While addressing the Cabinet council meeting on Wednesday, President Eduardo said that the country’s economy is recording just 1 per cent growth contrary to five and six per cent in a recent past.

According to him the country is now without money to import goods since it heavily relies in imports

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Former Senegalese President Adboulaye Wade’s son Karim Wade was released from prison in Dakar after a Presidential pardon.

Wade has been in prison for over three years of his six year imprisonment sentence following a series of judicial investigations against the former President’s relatives accused of getting rich illegally. The anti-corruption campaign was launched by President Macky Sall after coming into power on 2012. Wade was arrested with seven of his relatives and friends in a conviction by the Court for illegal enrichment.

Senegal’s President Macky Sall announced the release of Wade in June, assuring the media that he will no longer be incarcerated before the month of Ramadan ends.

Wade’s release has been met with mixed reactions by the Senegal political class. But huge crowds welcomed him home after his release late Thursday according to Presse Afrik.

The Presidential pardon covers the convicts’ sentence, but the financial sanctions and the procedure for recovery of misappropriated funds remain in force.

“The President of the Republic, by Decree No 2016-880 of 24 June 2016, pardoned gentlemen Karim Meissa Wade Ibrahima Aboukhalil said Bibo Bourgi and Alioune Samba Diasse . It should be clarified that this exemption only sentenced to undergo imprisonment remaining. Thus, the financial sanctions contained in the judgment of 23 March 2015 and the recovery procedure initiated remain.” Said the Statement from the Presidency

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United Kingdom: David Cameron Announces Resignation As Prime Minister Following UK Vote To Leave The EU

Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down by October after the UK voted to leave the European Union.

Mr Cameron made the announcement in a statement outside Downing Street after the final result was announced.

He said he would attempt to "steady the ship" over the coming weeks and months.

He had urged the country to vote Remain, warning of economic and security consequences of an exit, but Leave won by 52% to 48%.

England and Wales voting strongly for Brexit, while London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed staying in.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed it as the UK's "independence day" but the Remain camp called it a "catastrophe".

The pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985 as the markets reacted to the results.

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Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped four foreign nationals while they were being transported to work at United Cement Company Limited factory in the Cross River Area.

Three Australians and one New Zealander are among those kidnapped.

Apart from the foreign nationals, two other workers said to be Nigerians were also kidnapped.

It is strongly suspected that another foreign national, a white man, escaped the kidnapper’s drag- net during the incident.
It is also believed that their local driver was killed during the attack on the group’s vehicle.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the Australian high commissioner in Nigeria is at the scene while New Zealand has no diplomatic mission in the country limiting its capacity to coordinate the rescue.

The incident occurred at Akansoko community in Akpabuyo Local Government Area,near Calabar,after the kidnappers waylaid the bus carrying them to the Unicem factory. This according to ThISDAY Nigeria

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The 51-year-old wealthy businessman is currently out of Democratic Republic Congo seeking medical treatment.

He was found guilty of illegally selling a property in Lubumbashi, his eastern power base.

The court in Lubumbashi, DR Congo’s second city, also fined the football tycoon $6m (£4.1m) for illegally selling the property, which a Greek citizen claimed belonged to his family.

Katumbi flew out of the country on 20 May, a day after the authorities issued an arrest warrant for him on separate charges of hiring foreign mercenaries – allegations he denies.

Moise Katumbi was governor of the south-eastern Katanga province for almost a decade.

In September last year he broke ties with the ruling party when he accused President Kabila, his former ally, of wanting to cling to power.

His popularity is partly down to his job as the president of a great source of Congolese pride – football club TP Mazembe who are Africa’s reigning football champions, having won the African Champions League for the fifth time in November.

Katumbi had the backing of seven opposition parties to run for the presidency in elections due to be held in November.