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By Giulia Paravicini GOMA (Reuters) -The leader of a rebel alliance that has seized swathes of east Congo told Reuters on Thursday that insurgents were not bound by a ceasefire call from Congo and Rwanda’s presidents and cast any minerals-for-security deal with the U.S. as “treachery”. Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and his …

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NAIROBI (Reuters) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic militia he accuses of allying with his rival and First Vice President Riek Machar. The latest development compounds a confrontation between the two men that started after the …

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that his government would not seek conflict with longtime foe Eritrea over access to the Red Sea, after regional officials and experts warned of a possible war between the Horn of Africa neighbours. Fears of war emerged in recent weeks after Eritrea ordered a …

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(Reuters) -Sudan’s army is close to taking control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, state TV reported on Thursday, in a significant milestone in a two-year-old conflict that threatens to fracture the country. The RSF quickly took the palace and most of the capital at the outbreak of war …

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(Reuters) -Rwanda-backed M23 rebels pressed deeper into Congolese territory a day after Congo and Rwanda’s presidents called for an immediate ceasefire, entering the outskirts of the town of Walikale late on Wednesday, residents told Reuters. Gunfire was ringing out from near the town’s Nyabangi neighbourhood, said Walikale resident Janvier Kabutwa. An army source, who asked …

M23 rebels enter another eastern Congo town, defying calls for ceasefire Read More »

By Sonia Rolley (Reuters) – For years, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo demanded direct negotiations with Congolese authorities. Battlefield gains mean they can now afford to snub them to try to wring out more concessions. When President Felix Tshisekedi’s government, reeling from M23’s capture of eastern Congo’s two biggest cities, finally …

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By Eltayeb Siddig SHARG ELNIL, Sudan (Reuters) -In a nutrition ward at a hospital in Sudan’s war-stricken capital, gaunt mothers lie next to even thinner toddlers with wide, sunken eyes. The patients at Alban Jadeed Hospital are in urgent need of help after nearly two years of battles that have trapped residents and cut off …

Medics struggle to revive Sudan’s hungry with trickle of aid supplies Read More »