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Colombia’s VP calls on former colonial powers to confront past as UN forum opens

14 Apr 2025 14 Apr 2025

By Catarina Demony (Reuters) -Colombia’s Vice President Francia Marquez, an advocate of slavery reparations, urged former colonial powers to take responsibility for their past wrongs and called for a global reparations fund, at a United Nations forum on Monday. In her opening speech at the fourth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African …

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Junta leader Nguema vows to rebuild Gabon after landslide vote win

14 Apr 2025 14 Apr 2025

By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome and Ngouda Dione (Reuters) -The commanding win of junta leader Brice Oligui Nguema in Gabon’s presidential election over the weekend gives him a seven-year mandate to turn the page on more than half a century of father-and-son rule by the Bongo family. The 50-year-old – who ousted President Ali Bongo in …

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Swiss citizen abducted in Niger – foreign ministry

14 Apr 2025 14 Apr 2025

ZURICH (Reuters) – A Swiss citizen has been abducted in the West African country of Niger, the foreign ministry in Bern said on Monday. The Swiss representation in capital Niamey is in contact with local authorities and further investigations are underway, a spokesperson added. It declined to give further details of the person or circumstances …

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Former Mauritius finance minister granted bail in fraud case

14 Apr 2025 14 Apr 2025

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) – A court in Mauritius has granted bail to a former finance minister charged with fraud over alleged embezzlement at a state-owned company, his lawyer and the financial crimes commission said on Monday. Renganaden Padayachy and former central bank governor Harvesh Seegolam were arrested and charged last week over the reported embezzlement …

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Gabon’s leader Nguema elected president with 90.35% of vote, interior minister says

14 Apr 2025 14 Apr 2025

By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome and Ngouda Dione LIBREVILLE (Reuters) -Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won Saturday’s presidential election with 90.35% of votes cast, according to provisional results, the Central African country’s interior minister said on Sunday. The result cements Nguema’s grip on power 19 months after the coup …

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Musk says Starlink now available in Somalia

13 Apr 2025 13 Apr 2025

(Reuters) -SpaceX’s Starlink satellite system is now available in Somalia, owner Elon Musk wrote on social media platform X on Sunday, while a Somalia government official confirmed the company has been given a licence to operate in the country. “We have been in talks with this company (Starlink) for a period of two and half …

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US gains release of American held in Tunisia, official says

13 Apr 2025 13 Apr 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials gained the release on Sunday of an American detained in Tunisia, Robert Vieira, U.S. special envoy Adam Boehler said. Vieira was detained 13 months ago while doing missionary work in Tunisia and was suspected by Tunisian authorities of espionage, Boehler told Reuters. He said Vieira was flying home to the …

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Landmine kills eight in Nigeria

13 Apr 2025 13 Apr 2025

By Ahmed Kingimi LAGOS (Reuters) – At least eight people were killed after a bus travelling along the Maiduguri-Damboa road in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state on Saturday detonated a landmine, security sources and travellers said. Landmines are common in the northeast region where the Islamist group Boko Haram frequently launches attacks on security facilities and …

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Algeria protests France’s detention of Algerian consular agent

13 Apr 2025 13 Apr 2025

TUNIS (Reuters) – Algeria protested on Saturday against France’s detention of an Algerian consular agent over an alleged kidnapping of an Algerian citizen in France, the latest tension between the two countries. The Algerian Foreign Ministry said that this unprecedented judicial turn, in the history of two countries’ relations, was aimed at disrupting the process …

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Clashes hit rebel-controlled Goma, largest city in east Congo

12 Apr 2025 12 Apr 2025

(Reuters) – Clashes between pro-government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels reached Goma in east Congo, residents told Reuters on Saturday, as each side blamed the other for the worst violence in the area’s largest city since the rebels seized it in January. The toll from the clashes was not immediately clear. A government statement on Saturday …

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