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‘No thanks’, white South Africans turn down Trump’s immigration offer

9 Feb 2025

By Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Catherine Schenck JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to rehouse white South Africans as refugees fleeing persecution may not spur quite the rush he anticipates, as even right-wing white lobby groups want to “tackle the injustices” of Black majority rule on home soil. Trump on Friday signed an executive …

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Dozens of runaway Congo soldiers face trial on violence charges

9 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – Congo authorities will put at least 75 soldiers on trial on Monday for fleeing the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into the eastern province of South Kivu and for violence against civilians, including murder and looting, the military prosecutor’s office said on Sunday. The United Nations has reported mass violations including summary executions, …

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Bodies of migrants recovered in southeast Libya, attorney general says

9 Feb 2025

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s security authorities recovered at least 28 bodies of migrants from a mass grave in the desert in southeast Libya, the country’s attorney general said on its Facebook page on Sunday. The bodies were found north of Kufra city, the attorney general said, while 76 migrants were freed “from forced detention.” Kufra …

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Sudan to form new government after regaining Khartoum, say military sources

9 Feb 2025

By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – The formation of a new Sudanese government is expected to happen after the recapture of Khartoum is completed, military sources told Reuters on Sunday, a day after army head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said he would form a technocratic wartime government. The Sudanese army, long on the backfoot in its …

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Namibia’s ‘founding father’ Sam Nujoma dies aged 95

9 Feb 2025

By Nyasha Nyaungwa and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo WINDHOEK (Reuters) -Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia’s first democratically elected president after it won its independence from apartheid South Africa, died aged 95 on Saturday, the Namibian Presidency said on Sunday. Nujoma rose to head the thinly populated southern African country on March 21, …

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Egypt condemns Israeli suggestion of Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia

8 Feb 2025

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt condemned statements by Israeli officials suggesting the establishment of a Palestinian state on Saudi territory as “irresponsible” on Saturday. Egypt’s foreign ministry said in a statement the idea was a “direct infringement of Saudi sovereignty” and that the kingdom’s security was a “red line for Egypt”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

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Ex-banker Thiam renounces French citizenship to run in Ivory Coast election

8 Feb 2025

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam has renounced his French citizenship to meet eligibility conditions for Ivory Coast’s presidential election in October, as his party mulls who to put forward as its nominee. In 2023, Thiam was elected leader of PDCI, one of Ivory Coast’s main opposition parties, making him a likely …

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Over 50 people killed in convoy ambush in northeast Mali, sources say

8 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – More than 50 people were killed near Mali’s northeastern city of Gao on Friday after armed assailants ambushed their convoy and its army escort, a local official and residents said. The attackers struck near the village of Kobe, around 30 km (19 miles) from Gao in a region where affiliates of Islamic State …

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Bodies of migrants recovered in two locations in Libya, security and Red Crescent say

8 Feb 2025

BENGHAZI (Reuters) – At least ‮29‬ bodies of migrants have been recovered in two locations in the southeast and west of Libya, a security directorate and the Libyan Red Crescent said on Thursday. The Alwahat district Security Directorate said in a statement that 19 bodies were discovered in a mass grave in a farm in Jikharra …

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