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Ex-state governor charged in Flint water crisis

Washington (AFP) - Ex-Michigan governor Rick Snyder is among a number of former state officials charged over the Flint water crisis, authorities said Thursday, the latest development in a years-long health scandal that has come to symbolize social injustice in the US. Prosecutors allege that Snyder willfully neglected his duty to protect residents of the decaying former industrial city that switched its drinking water source to the polluted Flint River to cut costs in 2014. Officials failed to add corrosion controls to the new tap water source, allowing lead and other contaminants to leach fro...

Doubts about safety of Flint's water 6 years after crisis

Flint (United States) (AFP) - Authorities say Flint's water meets federal safety guidelines, outperforming comparable cities. Residents remain unconvinced.On a Tuesday morning this month, blocks and blocks of cars waited near a church in the eastern part of the Midewestern city to receive value packs of bottled water.These giveaways still happen three days a week, some six years after residents began complaining that a decision to supply the city from the Flint River was making them sick."We're still leery of drinking the water," said Cleophus Mooney as he waited in his car to collect his week...

Ethiopia accuses Trump of inciting 'war' over Nile dam

Addis Ababa (AFP) - Ethiopia on Saturday accused Donald Trump of inciting "war" over a massive Nile River mega-dam after the US president spoke out against the project and suggested Egypt might destroy it.Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew summoned US ambassador Michael Raynor to clarify Trump's comments, which mark the US president's latest foray into a delicate, long-running dispute between Ethiopia and downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan.  Gedu told Raynor that "the incitement of war between Ethiopia and Egypt by a sitting US president neither reflects the long-standing partnership and str...