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France signs deals to help Egypt’s economy in volatile regional climate

7 Apr 2025

PARIS (Reuters) – France and Egypt signed strategic partnership agreements on Monday, in areas covering health, transport and energy, which French President Emmanuel Macron said would help shore up Egypt’s stability amid volatility in the region. “Egypt is a strategic partner for our country,” said Macron, speaking alongside Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at a …

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Kidnapped Kenyan officials released after two months, minister says

7 Apr 2025

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Five local Kenyan officials have been released from captivity, Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said on Monday, two months after they were kidnapped by suspected Islamist gunmen in the northeast of the country. Gunmen believed to be from the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group abducted the village chiefs, who were government-appointed local officials, …

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Gunmen kill at least 52 people in Nigeria’s Plateau state

7 Apr 2025

LAGOS (Reuters) – Gunmen have killed at least 52 people and displaced nearly 2,000 others over several days of attacks in Nigeria’s northern Plateau state, which has a history of violence between farmers and cattle herders, the national emergency agency said The reason for the attacks in six villages in Plateau’s Bokkos district last week …

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Mali accuses Algeria of shooting down a surveillance drone, recalls ambassador

6 Apr 2025

BAMAKO, Mali (Reuters) -Mali accused neighbouring Algeria of shooting down one of its surveillance drones near their shared border in a statement read out by the security minister on national TV on Sunday. The West African country and its allies Burkina Faso and Niger will recall their ambassadors from Algeria for consultations over the incident, …

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French, Algerian ties ‘back to normal’, France says after talks

6 Apr 2025

By John Irish ALGIERS (Reuters) -France’s foreign minister said on Sunday that ties with Algeria were back to normal after he held 2 1/2 hours of talks with Algeria’s president following months of bickering that have hurt Paris’ economic and security interests in its former colony. Ties between Paris and Algiers have been complicated for …

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Around 30 dead in Congo capital flooding, authorities say

6 Apr 2025

KINSHASA (Reuters) -Around 30 people have died in flooding in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, the provincial health minister said on Sunday, as torrential rains over the weekend destroyed homes and roads. “The death toll is provisional, but so far there are around thirty dead,” Patricien Gongo Abakazi told Reuters. The Ndjili River, which …

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Tunisia dismantles sub-Saharan migrant camps and forcibly deports some

5 Apr 2025

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian authorities have dismantled makeshift camps housing 7,000 sub-Saharan African migrants and begun forcibly deporting some of them, a senior official told Reuters on Saturday, as the country grapples with an unprecedented migrant crisis. Houssem Eddine Jebabli, an official in the National Guard, told Reuters a number of migrants …

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Iconic Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko of Amadou & Mariam dies at 70

5 Apr 2025

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Grammy-nominated Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko, who won global fame by moulding traditional West African sounds with Western rock and pop influences as one half of the blind duo Amadou & Mariam, has died aged 70, the Malian government said. The ministry of culture “learned with concern of the passing of artist Amadou Bagayoko …

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Nigeria receives over 1 million meningitis vaccines from Gavi

4 Apr 2025

LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria has received more than 1 million meningitis vaccine doses from Gavi-funded global stockpile to combat an outbreak of the deadly disease in Africa’s most populous nation, Gavi said on Friday. More than 70 people have died from the outbreak across several Nigerian states, with over 800 cases recorded, Gavi said. Nigeria is …

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