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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt rejects proposals to displace the Palestinian people in order to not “liquidate” the Palestinian cause and to avoid threatening the national security of countries in the region, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump has angered the Arab world with a plan to permanently displace …

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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, with combatants and civilians among the dead. About 3,000 deaths were reported in …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s army said on Sunday it had seized back control of the town of el-Gitaina, just south of the capital, from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and broken the paramilitary group’s siege on the strategic city of el-Obeid to the west. Last week, activists said three days of RSF attacks had left more …

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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco’s counterterrorism agency said on Monday it had foiled attacks against national and international targets in the country by a 12-member cell loyal to Islamic State in the Sahel. The operation underscores the threat emanating from jihadist militancy in the Sahel, as groups linked to Islamic State and al …

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By Sonia Rolley, Hereward Holland (Reuters) -When Rwanda’s ex-spy chief Patrick Karegeya was murdered in South Africa in 2014, his former brother-in-arms James Kabarebe was blunt: “When you choose to be a dog, you die like a dog.” The line, quoted in Rwandan media, illustrated two notable characteristics of then-defence minister Kabarebe: his unvarnished talk …

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GENEVA (Reuters) -Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp in Sudan’s North Darfur because of heavy fighting in the area, it said on Monday. The charity was one of the few still working in the besieged Zamzam camp which houses around half a million people displaced by Sudan’s …

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