By Nellie Peyton and Siyanda Mthethwa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s Democratic Alliance party is going to court to challenge a new employment law that sets racial targets for large employers in an attempt to address the economic inequality that is a persistent legacy of former racist white minority rule. The Employment Equity Amendment Act, which …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan court on Monday charged four police officers with crimes against humanity over accusations of killing a baby during a crackdown on protests after a disputed election in 2017, according to court documents, media and rights groups. Charges against eight other officers were dropped due to what the prosecutor’s office said …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Rwanda is in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants deported from the United States, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on television late on Sunday. Rwanda has in recent years positioned itself as a destination country for migrants that Western countries would like to remove, despite concerns by rights groups that …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a drone attack on a military air base and other facilities in the vicinity of Port Sudan Airport, a Sudanese army spokesperson said on Sunday, in the first RSF attack to reach the eastern port city. No casualties were reported from the attacks, the …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court has sentenced two Israeli citizens to five years in jail for assaulting hotel workers in the Red Sea town of Taba near the border with Israel last year, an Egyptian security source said on Saturday. In August, three Arab Israeli tourists and two Egyptian hotel workers were injured when …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -At least seven people were killed and 20 injured and the last remaining hospital and pharmacy in the country’s Fangak county were destroyed in bombings, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Saturday. MSF said a bomb was dropped on the pharmacy, burning it to the ground and damaging the hospital, followed by …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -A Tunisian court on Friday handed down a 34-year prison sentence against former Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, a senior figure in the opposition Ennahda party, on charges of facilitating the departure of jihadists to Syria over the past decade, his lawyer told Reuters. Larayedh, who served as prime minister from …
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By Siyanda Mthethwa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African court found a mother and two accomplices guilty on Friday of kidnapping and trafficking her 6-year-old daughter, in a case that gained nationwide attention since the child went missing last year. Joshlin Smith, then 6, disappeared from her home in the small town of Middelpos, Saldanha …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) -The U.N. Mission in Libya said on Friday its advisory committee finished its consultations and finalized a set of options to address contentious issues in Libya’s current electoral framework, adding that the Mission will start talks with Libyan stakeholders based on these options. The Advisory Committee was formed by UNSMIL in February to …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Uganda’s military chief, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, says he is holding an opposition activist in his basement and has threatened violence against him, after the man’s party said he was abducted by armed men last week. Eddie Mutwe, who also acts as the chief bodyguard for Uganda’s leading opposition figure, Bobi …
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