September 16, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir could return to South Africa in December.

Zimbabwe's main opposition questions Robert Mugabe fitness to hold office after he read a wrong speech at the opening of parliament

And, the US and South Africa have reached an agreement on poultry imports. 

 

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir could return to South Africa this year for a talk shop, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.

He told reporters in Pretoria that Sudan was a member of the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation, which South Africa will host in December.

Zuma said government was studying the International Criminal Court’s (or ICC’s) order, which was issued on September 4.

The court gave South Africa until October 5 to explain its failure to arrest Bashir in June, while he was in Johannesburg for an African Union Summit.

The ICC had issued a warrant of arrest for Bashir and wanted him to stand trial on charges of war crimes and genocide.

 

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament.

The leader delivered the same speech he gave on August 25, pinning his hopes on China to help revive Zimbabwe's struggling economy. He finished the speech without interruption.

His spokesperson George Charamba blamed officials, and added that the president would read the correct speech at a later date.

But the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change, which is critical of Mugabe's long rule, said the blunder called into question Mugabe’s fitness to hold office.

Mugabe showed no visible signs of illness and denied reports that he suffers from prostate cancer.

 

US and South African agricultural officials agreed at a crucial meeting in Pretoria this week to take steps to ensure US poultry imports to South Africa resume by the end of the year.

Although the two countries had agreed in June on a yearly quota of 65 000 tons of US poultry imports into South Africa to end a long ban, the quota had not been implemented because of South African concerns about avian flu in the US.

The US had however warned that if the barriers to poultry and other US meat imports weren’t lifted soon, South Africa could lose its duty-free access to the lucrative US market for about $1.6-billion worth of exports a year.

The South African government hailed the agreement by US and SA veterinary experts on the meat import issues as a breakthrough.

Until now South Africa has insisted that it would not import any US poultry as long as there was avian flu anywhere in the country.

 

Also making headlines:

President Jacob Zuma said the impact of war and poverty in the world was manifesting itself in the refugee crisis in Europe.

Tunisia hopes that increased security at hotels, airports and museums could start to restore some confidence in the country following the tragedy in June when a gunmen killed holidaymakers at a beach resort.

And, eight Mexicans died in Egypt in an apparently mistaken aerial bombing of a tourist convoy by Egypt's army. 

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today