(Reuters) -Congolese former president Joseph Kabila has arrived in the rebel-held eastern city of Goma for talks with locals, three people close to him told Reuters, a month after declaring he wanted to help end the crisis in the war-ravaged region. If confirmed, the visit could complicate a U.S.-backed bid to end a rebellion by …
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KINGSTOWN (Reuters) -Police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Tuesday said they found a boat beached on the shore of Canouan island carrying the remains of what they believed to be 11 people who may be from Mali, though investigations into their identities are ongoing. “Several passports were recovered at the scene which appear …
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By Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) -The United States is assessing the future of its military command for Africa, its top general for the continent said on Tuesday, and called on African governments to make their views on its possible elimination known in Washington. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering merging AFRICOM, which became a distinct …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -At least 42 people were shot dead by suspected herders in a series of weekend attacks across Gwer West district in Nigeria’s central Benue state, a local official said on Tuesday. Thirty-two bodies were recovered from Sunday’s assaults on the Ahume and Aondona villages, while 10 more were killed in …
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ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian police said on Monday that they were investigating an explosion outside an army barracks in the centre of the capital Abuja and that one person was receiving medical attention in hospital after the incident. The police said in a statement that its Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit had been sent to the scene, …
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By Tim Cocks KIMBERLEY, South Africa (Reuters) -Until the last half-decade, the majestic lesser flamingo had four African breeding sites: two salt pans in Botswana and Namibia, a soda lake in Tanzania, and an artificial dam outside South Africa’s historic diamond-mining town of Kimberley. Now it only has three. Years of raw sewage spilling into …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Uganda’s military has severed all military cooperation with Germany after it accused Berlin’s ambassador to Kampala of involvement in “subversive activities” in the East African country, its spokesperson said. A spokesperson for Germany’s foreign ministry said at a press conference in Berlin on Monday that the accusations were “absurd and without any merit …
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By Ben Ezeamalu LAGOS (Reuters) -A sit-at-home order by banned separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra in Nigeria’s southeast has led to the death of over 700 people in the region over the past four years, an intelligence consultancy said in a new report. The IPOB, campaigning for the secession of the southeast that is …
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(Reuters) – An oil leak forced the shutdown of a pipeline south of Libya’s city of Zawiya, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Saturday. Zawiya, 40 km (25 miles) west of the capital Tripoli, is home to Libya’s biggest functioning refinery, with a capacity of 120,000 barrels per day. The refinery is connected to …
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By Mark Gleeson PRETORIA (Reuters) -Egypt’s Pyramids equalised four minutes into stoppage time to snatch a 1-1 draw at Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa in the first leg of the African Champions League final on Saturday. With the away goals rule still applying in African club competition, the momentum now swings the way of the …
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