ABIDJAN (Reuters) – The prime minister of junta-ruled Guinea announced a new date of December 2025 for elections, seeking to reassure investors in a speech at an African business forum on Monday. Guinea is ruled by military leader Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power in a coup in September 2021, and in 2022 proposed a two-year …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants attacked a Nigerian army base and captured soldiers and ammunition during a raid in the insurgency-hit northeastern Borno state in the early hours of Monday, two security sources told Reuters. A surge in attacks this year by Boko Haram and its splinter rival Islamic State …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France will respond to Algeria’s “unjustified” decision to expel 15 French officials, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday, as relations between the countries worsened further. France’s ties with its former colony have long been complicated, but took a turn for the worse last year when President Emmanuel Macron angered Algeria by …
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(Reuters) – The first white South Africans granted refugee status under a programme initiated by U.S. President Donald Trump boarded a plane to leave from the country’s main international airport in Johannesburg on Sunday. A queue of white citizens with airport trolleys full of luggage, much of it wrapped in theft-proof cellophane, waited to have …
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ROME (Reuters) – At least three people have died, including two children aged 3 and 4, in a Mediterranean sea crossing from Libya to Italy, a German sea rescue charity said on Sunday, adding that it had rescued 59 survivors. The migrants were intercepted on Saturday on a rubber boat floating adrift south of the …
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BUKAVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (Reuters) – More than 100 people have died after flooding in a village near the shores of Lake Tanganyika in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a local official said. The flooding, which affected the village of Kasaba, comes at a vulnerable moment for the Central African nation. Rwanda-backed M23 …
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) -At least seven people have been killed in two districts of Mogadishu after a flood triggered by severe rainfall swept through the east African nation on Friday night, according to a government official. “We have now confirmed that at least seven people have died, including two women. The rain also …
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By Ben Ezeamalu LAGOS (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead at least 30 travellers in an attack in Nigeria’s southeastern Imo state, Amnesty International said on Friday, raising fresh concerns about violence in a region rife with insecurity. More than 20 vehicles and trucks were set ablaze by the attackers, who were suspected to be members …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Some 52 million people in West and Central Africa will struggle to meet their basic food and nutrition needs in the upcoming lean season, driven by conflict, extreme weather and economic deterioration, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. In the lean season – a period between harvests when food supplies …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ugandan opposition leader and pop singer Bobi Wine said on Friday he plans to run for president for a second time and criticised the West for not speaking out more against “gross human rights violations” in the country. Wine, 43, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, will be challenging long-serving President Yoweri …
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