afraid

President Donald Trump asserted that Iran is engaged in negotiations, accusing Tehran of publicly denying talks out of fear that Iranian negotiators could be killed by hardliners — or by the United States. "They are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly. But they're afraid to say it, because they figure they'll be killed by their own people," Mr Trump told a dinner for Republican members of Congress. "They're also afraid they'll be killed by us." The president's remarks came after Iranian Foreign…

It is a day of mourning this Friday in Senegal at the urging of the opposition collective M2D, the movement for the defense of democracy, in memory of the victims of last week's clashes between police and protesters, which left at least five dead. It all started with the arrest of opponent Ousmane Sonko, accused of the alleged rape of a young Senegalese woman. Aljoner Tine heads the West African think tank Africajom Center. He's one of the people President Macky Sall has heard in recent days. Online from Dakar he gives…