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BISSAU, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s electoral commission said on Tuesday it was unable to complete the November 23 presidential election process after armed men seized ballots and vote tallies from its offices, while servers storing the results were destroyed. Army officers in the West African state seized power on November 26, a day before …

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By Tarek Amara TUNIS, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Police arrested prominent Tunisian opposition figure Ayachi Hammami at his home on Tuesday to enforce a five-year prison term on a conviction for conspiracy against state security, his family told Reuters. An appeals court handed down jail terms of up to 45 years last week to dozens …

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By Ahmed Kingimi ABUJA, Dec 2 (Reuters) – President Bola Tinubu nominated Nigeria’s former top general to replace the defence minister, who resigned amid a surge in mass kidnappings and Islamist attacks in the north that has led the president to declare a security emergency. Christopher Musa, 58, served as Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff …

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CAIRO, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Monday that it seized full control of Babanusa, a transport junction in the country’s oil-producing south, though its rival, the Sudanese army, disputed the claim. In a statement on Monday, the RSF said its “liberation” of Babanusa in West Kordofan state — …

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BISSAU, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Nigeria has offered Guinea-Bissau’s opposition presidential candidate Fernando Dias protection at its embassy in the capital Bissau following a military coup, the Nigerian foreign ministry said on Monday. The offer came as leaders from the Economic Community of West African States regional bloc, led by Sierra Leone President Julius Maada …

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By Reade Levinson TINE, Chad, Dec 1 (Reuters) – At a transit camp here on the Chad-Sudan border, Najwa Isa Adam, 32, hands out bowls of pasta and meat to orphaned Sudanese children from al-Fashir, the site of a recent violent takeover by paramilitary forces in Sudan. Adam herself is a refugee from the city …

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(Refiles to include words missing from headline) KINSHASA, Dec 1 (Reuters) – An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now over, Congolese health officials and the U.N.’s World Health Organization said on Monday, after the country went 42 consecutive days without recording a new case.  The outbreak, declared on September 4 after …

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