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‘I saw horrible things’: Burkina Faso massacre survivor describes bloodshed in trenches

31 Aug 2024 31 Aug 2024

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – A woman who survived the massacre of hundreds of villagers in central Burkina Faso described the horror of searching through bodies to find her brothers, in an interview following the attack claimed by an Al Qaeda-linked group earlier this week. “We went out with carts to collect the bodies of my older …

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Gabon marks year since ‘coup of liberation’ with celebrations, reform pledges

31 Aug 2024 31 Aug 2024

By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – A year since a military coup in Gabon ended the Bongo dynasty’s 56-year rule, the country marked the anniversary in festive mood this week with celebrations and promises by the ruling junta to step up progress on reforms. The Gabonese largely welcomed the military’s ouster of president Ali …

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New Development Bank approves up to $1 billion loan for water projects in South Africa

31 Aug 2024 31 Aug 2024

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -The New Development Bank has approved a new loan of up to $1 billion to finance water and sanitation projects among poorer households in South Africa, the bank said in a statement on Saturday. The loan will be used under South Africa’s Municipal Infrastructure Grant, a conditional grant used by municipalities to …

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Exports from Libya’s Hariga oil port stop as crude supply dries up, say engineers

31 Aug 2024 31 Aug 2024

(Reuters) -The Libyan oil export port of Hariga has stopped operating due to insufficient crude supplies, two engineers at the terminal told Reuters on Saturday, as a standoff between rival political factions shuts most of the country’s oilfields. This week’s flare-up in a dispute over control of the central bank threatens a new bout of …

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Three Arab Israelis, two Egyptians injured after fight in Egypt’s Taba, sources say

30 Aug 2024 30 Aug 2024

(Reuters) -Three Arab Israeli tourists and two Egyptian hotel workers were injured after a fight broke out in the Egyptian town of Taba on the border with Israel on Friday, Egyptian security sources said. The sources said a physical altercation erupted when an Arab Israeli tourist verbally insulted an Egyptian hotel employee, sparking a melee …

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US imposes visa restrictions South Sudan individuals, State Dept says

30 Aug 2024 30 Aug 2024

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is imposing visa restrictions on members of the government and others who have obstructed humanitarian aid to the country by taxing shipments, the State Department said on Friday. South Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of civil war from 2013-2018, is experiencing one of …

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Tunisian court allows prominent politician Daimi to run in presidential election

30 Aug 2024 30 Aug 2024

TUNIS (Reuters) – The Tunisian administrative court upheld on Friday an appeal by prominent politician Imed Daimi to be allowed to return to the race for the presidential election expected on Oct. 6, Daimi said. Daimi became the third candidate to be restored to the race by the court, after Abdellatif Mekki and Mondher Znaidi, …

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Sudan’s rains spread wartime suffering across the country

30 Aug 2024 30 Aug 2024

By Eltayeb Siddig TOKAR, Sudan (Reuters) – Since floods swept away their home in eastern Sudan, Ahmed Hadab and his family have survived by drinking water mixed in with milk from his last surviving goat. “We don’t have any food,” he said after days of walking, trying to find something to eat, somewhere else to …

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Nigeria receives 10,000 doses of mpox vaccines from US

30 Aug 2024 30 Aug 2024

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria has received 10,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the first batch of the vaccine to reach the country which has confirmed 40 cases with no fatalities so far. Muyi Aina, executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency …

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Al Qaeda branch says it killed 300 fighters, not civilians, in Burkina Faso attack

29 Aug 2024 29 Aug 2024

By David Lewis (Reuters) – An al Qaeda-linked group said it killed nearly 300 people in Saturday’s devastating attack in north-central Burkina Faso, but said it targeted militia members linked to the army, not civilians, the U.S. consultancy Site Intelligence Group reported. The attack outside the town of Barsalogho was one of the deadliest in …

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