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The Election Commission on Sunday, October 25, confirmed the election of Wavel Ramkalawan as President of the Seychelles. With 54.9% of the vote, the Anglican pastor of the Linyion Democratik Seselwa party defeated outgoing President Danny Faure in the first round. For the first time in more than 40 years, the Seychelles has a non-issuing head of state from the former single party.…

Sudan signed a "historic" memorandum of understanding on Thursday with General Electric, the US power generation group. The deal comes after decades of US sanctions, with Sudan since 1993 on the US blacklist of countries supporting terrorism. Between 1992 and 1996, the Sudanese dictator Omar-al-Bashir had really welcomed the leader of the jihadist group al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden.…

The Sudanese government and rebel leaders signed a peace deal this Saturday, October 3, in Juba, South Sudan, to end 17 years of deadly war. From our correspondent in the region, This historic agreement is the formal successor progress achieved in August last year. The two parties already agreed on the main points of this historic agreement. Everyhad put his initials on the documentthen negotiations continued until the formal signing, which took place at noon on Saturday. The August text contained a three-year…