Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa
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Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa
20 October 2025
1. Madagascar- Antananarivo
Madagascar coup leader Col. Michael Randrianirina sworn in as president, promises new elections within two years
An army colonel who seized power in a military coup was sworn in as Madagascar’s new leader on Friday.
2. Kenya- Nairobi
Kenya holds state funeral for Raila Odinga
Presidents and representatives of African heads of state joined thousands of mourners at a state funeral service on Friday for Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the democratic reformer who died this week in India at the age of 80.
3. Lebanon- Libya
Son of late Libyan leader ordered released in Lebanon if he pays $11 million bail
After 10 years in prison without charge, a Lebanese judge has ordered the release of Hannibal Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan leader, Moammar Gadhafi.
But it’s on condition that he pays $11 million bail, something his lawyers say they will contest.
4. In our historical archives, it was on this day 20 October 1995 when A book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
Peter Houman and Steve McQuillan's book " Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: Mandela's Nuclear Nightmare " claimed that South Africa did not destroy all its nuclear weapons in 1993, as it was initially claimed by the then State President F. W. de Klerk, and that the nuclear weapons programme had been far more sophisticated than de Klerk had admitted.
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