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Taiwan says S.Africa gives March deadline to move office from Pretoria

3 Feb 2025

TAIPEI (Reuters) -The South African government has given Taiwan a deadline of the end of March to relocate the island’s de facto embassy outside of the capital city Pretoria, the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry said, blaming Chinese pressure for the move. South Africa severed official diplomatic ties with Taiwan in 1997 and only maintains formal – …

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Suez Canal Authority issues navigational maps for planned extension

3 Feb 2025

CAIRO (Reuters) – The Suez Canal Authority’s chairman, Osama Rabie, said on Monday that navigational maps for the planned 10km (6.2 mile) canal extension were issued. Rabie’s statement said that the extension project will increase the canal’s capacity by between six and eight vessels per day. (Reporting by Yusri Mohammed; Writing by Jana Choukeir; Editing …

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South Africa says its expropriation act is not exceptional after Trump says he will cut off aid

3 Feb 2025

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s foreign ministry said on Monday that its expropriation act was not exceptional, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would cut off funding to South Africa, citing land confiscations. “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on …

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Attack on South Sudan cattle camps kills 35, community leader says

3 Feb 2025

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Unidentified attackers raided cattle camps in a southeastern area of South Sudan last week, killing at least 35 people and wounding 46, a community leader said. Cattle raiding linked to competition for scarce resources is one of the main triggers of conflict between ethnic groups in the country awash with weapons after …

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Soccer-DR Congo asks clubs to end Visit Rwanda sponsorship

2 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – The Democratic Republic of Congo’s foreign minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner has urged soccer clubs Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Paris St Germain to end their “blood-stained” sponsorship agreements with “Visit Rwanda” following the worsening humanitarian crisis in the country. The DR Congo health ministry said on Saturday there were almost 800 bodies in hospital …

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Trump says U.S. carries out airstrikes on Islamic State in Somalia

2 Feb 2025

By Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. forces carried out airstrikes in Somalia on Saturday targeting a senior Islamic State attack planner and other members of the militant group, killing many of them, President Donald Trump said. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our …

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Egypt’s Sisi, Trump discuss Gaza; no mention of Palestinian transfer

1 Feb 2025

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on the need to consolidate the Gaza ceasefire deal in a phone call on Saturday, the Egyptian presidency said, but it was unclear if they discussed Trump’s call for the transfer of Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan. The White House said the …

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Congo health ministry says 773 bodies in Goma hospital morgues

1 Feb 2025

(Reuters) -There were 773 bodies in hospital morgues in and around the eastern Congolese city of Goma as of Jan. 30 following this week’s offensive by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry said on Saturday. Morgues are over-filled and more bodies are lying on the street, the ministry said. It added …

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At least 54 people killed in Sudan market attack, health ministry says

1 Feb 2025

(Reuters) -At least 54 people were killed and 158 wounded on Saturday in a strike by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a market in the city of Omdurman, the health ministry said in a statement. The RSF in a statement denied targeting the market and instead accused the Sudanese army of launching attacks …

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Mali gold mine accident kills more than a dozen, including women and children

1 Feb 2025

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded, the national union of gold counters and refineries (UCROM) said on Saturday. The incident occurred at an open-pit gold mine near the village of Danga in …

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