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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -Tanzanian authorities arrested and later deported human rights activists from Kenya and Uganda who had travelled to Dar es Salaam to observe a hearing in the treason case against detained opposition leader Tundu Lissu, advocacy groups said. Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan lawyer Agather Atuhaire went to Dar es Salaam …

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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Tanzania’s main opposition leader Tundu Lissu told his supporters to have no fear as he appeared in court on Monday on charges including treason, as President Samia Suluhu Hassan warned foreign rights activists against interference.    Lissu, who was appearing in court for the first time since his arrest, had earlier refused to participate …

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Monday that Equatorial Guinea has a legal claim to a cluster of small islands in potentially oil-rich waters in the Gulf of Guinea, settling a decades-long dispute with neighbouring Gabon. In its final and binding ruling the ICJ, also known as the World …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah Burhan appointed Kamil Idris, a former UN official and ex-presidential candidate, as prime minister of Sudan’s military-led government on Monday. The appointment installs a prime minister for the first time since a coup in 2021 ousted civilian leadership and established a caretaker government. It is unclear how much …

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) -At least 10 people were killed on Sunday after a suicide bomber targeted a queue of young recruits registering at the Damanyo military base in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Reuters, in an attack claimed by militant group al Shabaab. Teenagers were lining up at the base’s gate when the attacker detonated …

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