NAIROBI (Reuters) -Tanzania’s main opposition party said on Friday it could not establish the whereabouts of its leader Tundu Lissu after he was moved from a jail where he was being held following his arrest on treason charges last week. Senior CHADEMA party officials, Lissu’s lawyers and family members said they had tried unsuccessfully on …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -A Tunisian court is set to issue a ruling in the conspiracy case against prominent opponents, as lawyers protested and described the trial as a farce, while others called the proceedings a symbol of President Kais Saied’s authoritarian rule. Rights groups say the trial highlights Saied’s full control over the …
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PARIS -Liberia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Friday. The disease, commonly called bird flu, has spread around the globe in the past years, leading to the culling of hundreds of millions of poultry. The outbreak, detected in February …
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(Reuters) – Rwanda has agreed to allow troops deployed by the Southern Africa bloc to fight rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to evacuate from the rebel-held city of Goma through its territory to Tanzania, three diplomatic sources said on Friday. The 16-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) said in mid-March it had terminated …
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – The Ugandan government intends to introduce a law to allow military tribunals to try civilians for certain offences even after the practice was banned by the Supreme Court. Human rights activists and opposition politicians have long accused President Yoweri Museveni’s government of using military courts to prosecute opposition leaders …
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By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Two Egyptian clubs face two from South Africa this weekend in the semi-finals of this season’s African Champions League in a rare bilateral contest. Holders Al Ahly continue their bid for a fifth title in six seasons in Pretoria on Saturday against Mamelodi Sundowns, a side who once …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Two joint Somali-U.S. airstrikes killed 12 al Shabaab militants in central Somalia and destroyed a ship carrying weapons for the al Qaeda-linked group, the Somali government said on Thursday, following recent advances by the Islamists. The airstrikes came hours after the Islamists attacked the strategic town of Adan Yabal, which lies about 245 …
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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana has assumed operational control of Gold Fields’ Damang mine after it rejected an application from the South African company to renew its lease, the government said on Wednesday, breaking a tradition of automatically renewing licenses and calling it a critical step in the country’s …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Al Shabaab fighters captured a town in central Somalia on Wednesday that government forces had been using as a staging area to drive back an offensive by the militants that has gained ground in recent weeks, residents and soldiers said. Advances by the al Qaeda affiliate, which included briefly capturing villages within 50 …
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By Maha El Dahan and Nafisa Eltahir DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) – A top Emirati diplomat said the Gulf state was disappointed at the failure of a London conference this week to find consensus on ending the two-year war in Sudan, as sources blamed differences between Arab states. Both Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces …
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