By David Lewis and Sonia Rolley NAIROBI (Reuters) – Congo’s war tops the agenda at this weekend’s African Union summit but chances of diplomatic progress are slim as rebels advance and Rwanda’s leader, accused of backing them, has vowed to “spit in the face” of anyone punishing him for his actions. The advance of M23 …
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(This Feb. 13 story has been corrected to fix the Rwandan ambassador’s title to reflect that he is the ambassador to Germany, not Belgium, in paragraph 9) PARIS (Reuters) – The European Parliament urged the European Union on Thursday to freeze direct budget support for Rwanda until it breaks links with Tutsi-led M23 rebels and …
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BENGHAZI (Reuters) – Libyan security authorities have recovered at least 11 more bodies of migrants a mass grave in the southeast of the country, a security official told Reuters on Thursday. The total number of bodies recovered, found in 55 graves, has now climbed to 39, after the attorney general said on Sunday that the …
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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco’s cattle and sheep herds have decreased by 38% compared with the last census nine years ago due to consecutive droughts, agriculture minister Ahmed El Bouari said on Thursday. Six years of prolonged droughts have emptied Moroccan dams, caused mass job losses in farming and pushed the country to speed …
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(Reuters) – The advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province threatens to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in an area already housing thousands of displaced people, the provincial governor said. The Tutsi-led rebels have been inching south since they seized eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma at the end of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier collided with a merchant vessel near Egypt, the U.S. military said on Thursday, though the nuclear-powered carrier was stable and there were no injuries. The United States military currently has 11 aircraft carriers and any damage requiring one of them to be sidelined could strain the Navy. In …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s national elections body on Thursday imposed a three-month suspension on a party that administers the war-scarred Tigray region, saying it had breached laws governing its internal affairs. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) had failed to organise a general assembly of its members, hold elections for its party officials or …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian lawmakers approved a budget of 54.99 trillion naira ($36.6 billion) for 2025, exceeding the proposal submitted by President Bola Tinubu, the parliamentary speaker said on Thursday. Tinubu last week submitted a revised budget estimate of 54.2 trillion naira to the National Assembly due to additional earnings expected from revenue …
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(This Feb 12 story has been refiled to correct the spelling of analyst’s name to ‘Hellyer,’ not ‘Hellyher,’ in paragraph 15) CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will not travel to Washington for talks at the White House as long as the agenda includes U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was releasing an additional $2 million to support Uganda’s response to its Ebola outbreak, which has killed one person and infected at least eight others. (Reporting by George Obulutsa; Writing by Hereward Holland; Editing by Alexander Winning)
