TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s coast guard on Monday recovered the bodies of eight African migrants after their boat sank off the country’s coast as it sailed towards Europe, a security official told Reuters, adding that 29 other people were rescued. The boat sank in waters off the city of Abwabed near Sfax, a departure point often …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist miltants killed at least 22 people and wounded several others in two separate attacks over the weekend in northeastern Nigeria, residents and police said, the latest incidents in a region plagued by armed violence. Nigeria has been grappling with a long-running insurgency in its northeast region, primarily …
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By Karin Strohecker WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A slide in crude oil prices is increasing the likelihood that Angola will need an International Monetary Fund loan, Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa told Reuters, adding the government is running stress tests to gauge the impact on its finances. Sub-Saharan Africa’s second-biggest crude oil exporter has based its …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s Prime Minister, Hamza Abdi Barre, reshuffled his government on Sunday, appointing a new defence minister as his government tries to stem an Islamist insurgency. Barre did not give a reason for the reshuffle, which was read out by the government spokesperson in a video posted on the government’s Facebook account. Ahmed …
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By Boureima Balima (Reuters) – Twelve Nigerien soldiers have been killed in an attack in the west of the Sahel country and two suspects have been arrested, the army said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday. The attack took place on Friday near the tri-border region of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, epicentre …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda on Saturday declared an end to the country’s latest outbreak of ebola, three months after authorities confirmed cases of the highly infectious and often fatal viral hemorrhagic infection in the capital Kampala. The East African country announced its latest outbreak on January 30 after the death of a male …
By Khalid Abdelaziz AL-DAMAR, Sudan (Reuters) – At least 11 people were killed after a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces hit a displacement camp in Sudan’s River Nile state, the governor said in a statement, in an attack that also took out the regional power station for the fourth time. The RSF, which …
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By Sonia Rolley and Jessica Donati (Reuters) -Congo and Rwanda vowed to come up with a draft peace deal by May 2 and refrain from providing military support to armed groups, according to an agreement signed in Washington on Friday as part of diplomatic efforts to end violence in eastern Congo. The agreement, reached amid …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisians took to the streets on Friday in a mass protest demanding democracy, freedoms, and an end to arbitrary‮ ‬detention of critics and opponents, escalating pressure on President Kais Saied’s government. The government has come under widespread criticism for a crackdown on dissent following the arrest of prominent lawyer …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen have killed at least 20 people in an attack in a gold mining village in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, residents and Amnesty International said. Details on a possible motive for the attack were not immediately known but Zamfara state has grappled with kidnappings for ransom by armed …
