DUBAI (Reuters) – Six people were killed and 38 injured in a strike by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a hospital in Omdurman, the health ministry in Khartoum province said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz)
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s largest labour union has suspended a planned nationwide protest against a 50% hike in telecommunications tariffs and will negotiate with the government to resolve the dispute within two weeks, both sides said on Tuesday. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), representing millions of workers, had slated a Feb. 4 …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda has begun a trial vaccination programme for the strain of Ebola viral infection that is behind the country’s latest outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), while the number of confirmed cases has risen to three. Last week, the east African country announced an outbreak of Ebola in …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – The Eastern Congo rebel alliance that includes the M23 has declared a ceasefire for humanitarian reasons starting on Feb. 4, the group known as the Congo River Alliance said in a statement. The alliance added that it had no intention of capturing Bukavu, South Kivu’s provincial capital, after it seized Congo’s largest …
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(This Jan. 31 story has been corrected to fix the reference to troops in Congo to Burundian, not Rwandan, in paragraph 11) By David Lewis and Sonia Rolley NAIROBI (Reuters) – As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight …
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By Bhargav Acharya and Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa defended his land reform policy on Monday against an attack by Donald Trump that laid bare deep divisions within South Africa over racial disparities in ownership, an issue festering since apartheid. The U.S. president said on Sunday, without citing evidence, that “South …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – The regional blocs of southern and eastern Africa will hold a joint summit in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Feb 7-8 to discuss the conflict in eastern Congo, Kenya’s President William Ruto said on Monday. (Reporting by Humphrey Malalo; Writing by Hereward Holland; Editing by Bate Felix)
By Jaidaa Taha CAIRO (Reuters) – Weeks into the ceasefire in Gaza, thousands of Palestinians who left for neighbouring Egypt are grappling with the question of when they might go home, though they reject the prospect of a mass displacement proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. “A lot of people are torn, and I am …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Gunmen suspected of belonging to the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group abducted five government officials in northeast Kenya on Monday as they were on their way to work, local leaders were quoted on Monday as saying. The incident happened in Mandera county when the five village chiefs, government-appointed local officials, were heading to …
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By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – President Cyril Ramaphosa defended South Africa’s land policy on Monday after Donald Trump’s threat to cut off funding because of what he said were land confiscations. Trump said the previous day, without citing evidence, that “South Africa is confiscating land” and “certain classes of people” were being treated “very …
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