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AN INVESTIGATION by South Sudan authorities into the strangling to death of two children, aged 8 and 10, allegedly at the hands of their father, is under way.
Radio Tamazuj reported that the son and daughter of the man were murdered in the town of Bor in South Sudan’s Jonglei state on Saturday.
Police said Majok Maketh Koor handed himself over to police in the Tibek area. The reasons for the double murder are unclear and police are investigating. | African News Agency (ANA) STARS COME OUT TO PLAY THE Lost City Golf Course will host a trio of Masters champions when Gary Player, Ian Woosnam, right, and Trevor Immelman get together with other stars in golf, business and sport at the Gary Player Invitational at Sun City on November 22 to 25.
The three have five Masters titles between them, with Player donning the green jacket in 1961, 1974 and 1978, Woosnam winning in 1991 and Immelman claiming his Masters title in 2008.
And with Golf Hall of Fame’s Annika Sorenstam in the field, this year’s Gary Player Invitational has one of its strongest representations of Major champions in its history. | African News Agency (ANA)
MURDER SUSPECT HELD
A MURDER suspect was arrested by Blue Security officers in the Durban CBD at around midnight on Saturday.
The security company’s community and media liaison officer, Andreas Mathios, said officers responded to a call from flats in Diakonia Avenue, Albert Park, where a man was said to be hiding after fleeing a crime scene. “The victim was at a tavern with friends when the suspect approached him. An altercation broke out and the victim was stabbed several times.” | Own Correspondent
ANTI-VIOLENCE SUMMIT
THE government will hold a presidential summit on Thursday and Friday on gender-based violence and femicide to help end the scourge.
About 2 000 women under the #TotalShutDown banner marched to the Union Buildings on August 1 and handed in a memorandum to protest against oppression, inequality and violence.
According to Stats SA, the murder rate for women increased drastically by 117% in less than 24 months between 2015 and 2017. | African News Agency (ANA)
RELATIONS THAWING
THE resumption of bilateral ties between Sudan and Eritrea in the near future is a possibility, reports the daily Al Meghar in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and his Sudanese counterpart Omar Al Bashhir, left, are due to meet following a visit by Sudan presidential assistant, Faisal Ibrahim, to the Eritrean capital Asmara in the next few days, the paper reported.
The border between the two countries was closed in January after Sudan accused Eritrea of backing rebel groups and unidentified opposition groups. Troops were also deployed by Khartoum to the border area. | African News Agency
NATO WORRY FOR RUSSIA
MOSCOW: Ukraine and Georgia membership of Nato would pose an enormous economic and military problem for Russia, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for European Co-operation, Andrey Kelin, said yesterday.
Speaking at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club forum, he said Russia would have to build a “defence belt” near the Black Sea resort city of Sochi and “spend enormous resources”. | Sputnik/ African News Agency (ANA)