AFP, Kuala Lumpur
The Philippines on Saturday restarted peace talks with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group, the first under President Rodrigo Duterte aimed at ending decades of violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Negotiators for the two sides said the weekend talks in Malaysia would discuss details of Duterte’s peace road map.
16 dead in Central Africa cholera
outbreak
AFP, Bangui
At least 16 people have died in the Central African Republic’s first cholera outbreak in five years, UNICEF said on Friday.
The UN children’s agency said 66 cases had been recorded along the Oubangui River since the government declared the outbreak on Wednesday.
Rousseff judgment hearings Aug 25
AFP, Brasilia
The final judgement phase in the impeachment of suspended president Dilma Rousseff will start August 25, just four days after the Rio Olympics end, the Senate news service said Friday.
“The judgement session for Dilma Rousseff will start on the 25th at 9:00 am. The notice has been delivered to Jose Eduardo Cardozo, the suspended president’s lawyer,” the official news outlet said.
‘Ghani ‘unfit for presidency’
AFP, Kabul
Afghanistan’s Chief Executive has castigated his ally Ashraf Ghani as “unfit for the presidency”, in a public outburst highlighting bitter internal divisions that threaten their US-brokered power sharing agreement.
Abdullah Abdullah’s comments come ahead of a September deadline for the government to honour the fragile agreement signed after the fraud-tainted presidential election in 2014, which both leaders claimed to have won.
