By Ange Kasongo, Jessica Donati and Sonia Rolley KINSHASA (Reuters) -Three American citizens jailed over a failed coup attempt in Democratic Republic of Congo were handed over to U.S. custody on Tuesday, officials said, following high-level talks between the two countries on security and mining deals, the Congolese presidency told Reuters on Tuesday. The presidency …
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the region some autonomy under the North African kingdom’s sovereignty, the Trump administration said on Tuesday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio set out the U.S. position in …
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By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) – The rise of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere should not prevent Africa from bringing reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism to the table, the head of the African Union’s (AU) diaspora division said. “There is no better time as this to discuss the issue of reparations as Africans …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Algeria and Mali banned flights to and from each other’s airspace, their governments said on Monday, amid an escalating diplomatic crisis. On April 1, Algeria’s defence ministry said the army had shot down an armed surveillance drone for violating the North African country’s airspace near the rural Saharan commune of Tinzaouaten. Mali …
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(Reuters) -At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo’s Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one of Africa’s great lakes, the head of the park said on Tuesday. Tests confirmed anthrax poisoning, said Virunga Park director Emmanuel De …
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By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The African National Congress remains committed to South Africa’s multiparty government, it said on Tuesday, after its main coalition partner, the Democratic Alliance, voted against the budget and went to court to try to block it. The deepening schism between the ANC and DA – South Africa’s biggest and second-biggest …
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By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday appointed Tadesse Worede to lead the interim administration in the northern Tigray region, where divisions in the ruling party have sparked fears of a renewed war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Tadesse, the administration’s deputy president for the last two years, was …
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OMDURMAN, Sudan (Reuters) – The morning sun cast long shadows as Abdulilah Mohamed, an elderly resident of Sharg Elnil in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, returned to his family home after fleeing from civil war. The streets, now strewn with debris and remnants of conflict, led him to a structure barely standing after two years of …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – South Sudan said on Monday that a U.S. decision to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese citizens was prompted by Juba’s refusal to admit a deportee with another nationality. On Saturday, the U.S. said it would cancel all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over South Sudan’s failure to accept …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Sixteen people were killed during a clash between local security forces and suspected Lakurawa insurgents who had raided villages in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kebbi, police and residents said on Monday. The Islamist Lakurawa group emerged from herding communities along the Nigeria-Niger border after the July 2023 coup in …
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