JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa will take six uncapped players to Pakistan this week for their tri-series against the hosts and New Zealand, coach Rob Walter said on Wednesday. An initial 12-man selection has been named to take on New Zealand in Lahore next Monday in South Africa’s first game of the series. Additional players …
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PORT LOUIS (Reuters) -Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, which house a U.S.-British military base, the island nation’s prime minister said Tuesday. Britain struck the agreement in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, …
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(Reuters) – Rebels in eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week’s battles for the city as they feared the spread of disease. The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who captured Goma declared a ceasefire on Monday and largely upheld it, though some residents …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Corp’s defense systems to Egypt, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Tuesday. The State Department has approved the possible sale of Lockheed’s fast missile craft modernization estimated at $625 million and the potential sale of …
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YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Shell reported an oil spill on Tuesday at Ogale, near Port Harcourt, after a saver pit overflowed during flushing operations in the Niger delta region. The oil major’s Nigeria business said its spill response team contained the overflow and informed authorities. It added that arrangements were being made for a regulator-led …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting to discuss the situation in the eastern Congo city of Goma after it was seized by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, a U.N. statement said. The rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo, where …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The U.N. Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announced on Tuesday it had formed a committee to propose ways to resolve contentious issues hindering the holding of long-awaited national elections. A political process to resolve more than a decade of conflict in Libya has been stalled since an election scheduled for December 2021 collapsed …
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By David Lewis and Sonia Rolley NAIROBI (Reuters) -Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, heightening fears of a regional escalation. Residents said they were moving towards the conflict zone. …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Elon Musk on the subject of misinformation about South Africa, the presidency said on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would suspend aid to the country over its land reform policy. Trump on Sunday accused South Africa of confiscating land and badly treating …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is studying the possibility of opening a logistics hub in Egypt for supplies of Ukrainian agricultural products to the region, agriculture minister Vitaliy Koval said on Tuesday. Ukraine, a global producer and exporter of grains, oilseeds and vegetable oils, has in recent months intensified efforts to penetrate more deeply into the …
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