Quotes

 ‘We have revoked their diplomatic status and we have also informed the US Government that they are not there as Malawian diplomats.’

– Malawi’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Rejoice Shumba after her government on Saturday revoked the diplomatic status of eight recalled diplomats who had refused to leave the US in a stand-off over the shipping home of their personal effects

 

‘The erection of the plaques was an unlawful act as it is not in tangent with the government's policy’. You don't just in a sovereign country with a competent government just go and erect a monument in a community without involving the state. Where is that done? We are not a lawless society.’

– Zimbabwe’s deputy chief secretary George Charamba on the erection of Gukurahundi memorial plaques at the Bhalangwe mass grave. The site is where thousands of Ndebeles were massacred and thrown into the disused Antelope Mine in the 1980s.

 

‘Some of the bodies were tied with ropes, others had deep cuts and others had polythene bags on the heads.’

– Haki Africa executive director Hussein Khalid after it counted 21 unidentified bodies in a hospital morgue that workers there said had been retrieved from the River Yala in a scenic area of western Kenya