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Hospital massacre caps long series of attacks on healthcare in war-torn Sudan

28 Nov 2025

(Reuters) -As fighters from the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary closed in on government positions in the besieged Sudanese city of al-Fashir in October, a skeleton crew from the city’s last functioning hospital treated a surge of wounded in a makeshift emergency room. Shells pounded the area around Saudi Hospital, hitting civilians and combatants. It felt …

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Zuma’s daughter quits South Africa parliament over Russia recruitment allegations

28 Nov 2025

By Siyanda Mthethwa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, a daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma, has resigned from parliament amid allegations that she lured 17 men to fight for Russia in Ukraine, her party said on Friday. Zuma-Sambudla was a lawmaker in the Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) opposition party led by her father. MK officials …

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Tunisia hands prison terms between 5 and 45 years to opposition leaders

28 Nov 2025

(To correct that Chaima Issa is not in jail in paragraph nine) By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -A Tunisian appeals court on Friday handed jail terms of up to 45 years to opposition leaders, businessmen and lawyers, a court document showed, in what critics said was a sign of President Kais Saied’s increasingly authoritarian rule. …

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General sworn in as new Guinea-Bissau leader, ousted president arrives in Senegal

28 Nov 2025

BISSAU (Reuters) -Guinea-Bissau’s military installed Major-General Horta Inta-a as transitional president on Thursday, a day after soldiers toppled the civilian leadership in a swift power grab made before the results of a weekend election could be announced. The president who was ousted in the coup, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, arrived in Senegal aboard a special flight following …

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Germany says Trump should invite South Africa to G20 summit

27 Nov 2025

By Nellie Peyton, Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Madeline Chambers JOHANNESBURG/BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany said on Thursday that it would seek to persuade Donald Trump to reverse his decision to exclude South Africa from next year’s G20 summit in Florida following the U.S. president’s false claims that the country mistreated its white minority. Since taking office for a …

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Egypt’s GDP grew by 5.3% in first quarter of 2025/2026

27 Nov 2025

(Reuters) -Egypt’s GDP grew by 5.3% in the first quarter of its 2025/26 fiscal year compared with 3.5% in the same period a year earlier, the planning ministry said on Thursday, boosted by the government’s economic and structural reforms. Planning Minister Rania Al-Mashat said Egypt was targeting economic growth of around 5% for the fiscal …

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Kenya Wildlife Service rejects wildebeest migration concerns linked to luxury lodge

27 Nov 2025

NAIROBI (Reuters) -The Kenya Wildlife Service on Thursday rejected claims that a new Ritz-Carlton luxury lodge was blocking a wildebeest migration corridor between Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve and Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. A Kenyan activist filed a lawsuit in August seeking to block the opening of the hotel, which charges nightly rates starting from $3,500 …

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Nigeria’s Tinubu declares security emergency, orders mass recruitment of police and army

27 Nov 2025

ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday declared a nationwide security emergency and ordered the army and police to recruit thousands of additional personnel to tackle worsening armed violence across the country. Tinubu said the police would hire 20,000 more officers, raising their strength to 50,000, and authorised the use of National Youth Service …

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Elephant dung DNA reveals hidden forest populations, study shows

27 Nov 2025

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -There are thousands more endangered African forest elephants than previously thought, thanks to a new counting method using the DNA extracted from their dung, a study showed on Thursday.  The species of elephant, important in helping rainforests to regenerate, is notoriously hard to assess since they are spread across remote, …

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