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African press review 30 April 2016

Kenya prays for conjoined twins sharing a liver, while President Zuma is in dire straits again over the reinstatment of 783 criminal charges filed against him.

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We start in Kenya, where the people are praying for the lives of conjoined twins born on Thursday morning in Mombasa.

Daily Nation

The babies who are on life support were reportedly due to be flown to the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi for specialised treatment.

But the Nation says the evacuation was delayed due to a shortage of ventilators. The head of the Coast General Hospital says the boys born through caesarean section, were in a stable condition. He explained that a team of medical experts including paediatricians and plastic surgeons needed to investigate the organs shared by the coinjoined twins who have seperate hearts and kidneys but appear to be sharing a liver.

Standard Digital

The formation of a new cabinet in South Sudan after the return to Juba by rebel leader Reik Machar is a step forward towards ending the two-year civil war that claimed thousands of lives and displaced 2.3 million people.

Standard says one third of the 30-man new cabinet sworn in on Thursday are members of the SPLM-IO party led by President Salva Kiir's long-term rival Riek Machar who returned to Juba on Tuesday. Machar was "swiftly given back his old job", under the UN/US negotiated deal 

Standard Digital recalls that fighting broke out between both men's supporters in the capital in December 2013 after Kiir sacked Machar as first vice president.

Mail and Guardian

South African President Jacob Zuma is  in the eye of yet another gathering judical storm.

This, after the Pretoria High Court ruled to resume 783 criminal charges filed against him during Thabo Mbeki's time in office. M&G says Zuma was indicted in 2007 on multi-counts of fraud, corruption and racketeering, but the cases were dismissed after  political intrusion in the cases.

According to the Johannesburg publication, recordings of tapped phone calls between Leonard McCarthy head of the police investigations Scorpions agency and then National Prosecuting Authority boss Bulelani Ngcuka to Mbeki both officials in Thabo Mbeki administration suggested that they manipulated the timing of Zuma’s trial.

Mail and Guardian says the so-called "spy tapes" revealed that the two officials discussed the prospects of Thabo Mbeki election as President of the ruling African National Congress, and how they would be strengthened if the indictment against Jacob Zuma were to be served before‚ during or after the ANC’s elective conference in Polokwane in December 2007.

Zuma‚ was elected ANC president‚ and eventually charged after the conference on December 28 2007.

The Pretoria high court in Pretoria ruled that it is for a court to decide whether abuse of process has taken place. BusinessDay says President Zuma is now open to prosecution after the recommendation by the full bench of the court to review the corruption charges.

Times live

The Johannesburg newspaper highlights a controversial South African religious leader who claims to have visited heaven.

The paper says that Paseka Motsoeneng‚ popularly known as Pastor Mboro became a star after pictures allegedly taken during his visit to heaven went viral on social media. Times Live reports that Mboro of the Incredible Happenings Ministries, is allegedly selling the pictures for R5000 the equivalent of 300 euros per photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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