DAKAR (Reuters) -Namibia has confirmed the first case of cholera in ten years, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, adding that laboratory confirmation of the disease was “a major alert” for the country’s health officials. The patient, a 55-year-old woman exhibiting symptoms of diarrhoea, has recovered and was discharged from …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo is considering sending representatives to peace talks with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that Angola plans to host next week, two government sources said on Thursday, as the rebels listed demands to the mediation team. Angola has been trying to mediate a lasting ceasefire and reduce tensions between Congo …
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By Aaron Ross and Giulia Paravicini NAIROBI (Reuters) – Longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea could be headed towards war, officials in a restive Ethiopian region at the centre of the tensions have warned, risking another humanitarian disaster in the Horn of Africa. Direct clashes between two of Africa’s largest armies would signal the death blow …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated the mandate of its troop deployment in the Democratic Republic of Congo and decided on a “phased withdrawal”. “Summit terminated the Mandate of SAMIDRC and directed the commencement of a phased withdrawal of SAMIDRC …
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LUANDA (Reuters) – Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on March 18, Angola’s presidency said in a statement on Wednesday. The Southern African country has been trying to mediate a lasting ceasefire and de-escalate tensions between Congo and neighbouring Rwanda, which has been …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – A bloc of East African nations on Wednesday called for South Sudan’s government to release detained officials and lift security restrictions as part of efforts to prevent recent mounting factional tensions from erupting into renewed war. South Sudan has formally been at peace since a 2018 peace deal ended a five-year civil …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Officials administering Ethiopia’s Tigray region asked for federal help on Wednesday as a faction of the main regional party seized control of a town, stoking fears of a return to conflict in the war-scarred region. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) runs Tigray’s interim administration, established in 2023 as part of …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe was re-elected unopposed as Confederation of African Football president at the organisation’s congress in Cairo on Wednesday while four-time African Footballer of the Year Samuel Eto’o won a place on the executive committee. The 63-year-old Motsepe, whose family trust owns one of the continent’s biggest clubs Mamelodi …
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By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The weather in some of the world’s most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back again as rising temperatures play havoc with the global water cycle, a study commissioned by the charity WaterAid showed on Wednesday. South and Southeast Asia face the strongest wetting trends, …
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(Reuters) – Angola said on Tuesday it would attempt to broker direct talks between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the coming days. It was not immediately clear if the Congolese government, which has repeatedly refused to hold talks with the M23, would take part in discussions. Congo’s presidential spokesperson told Reuters …
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