By Ange Kasongo and John Irish KINSHASA/PARIS (Reuters) -France’s foreign minister was due in Rwanda on Thursday after talks in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of efforts to prevent a regional escalation following the capture of the eastern Congolese city of Goma by M23 rebels and Rwandan troops. France, taking the lead on …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body Interpol on Thursday. Interpol, headquartered in France, said those arrested included a suspected Islamic State member at the borders between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, …
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By Yassin Kombi and David Lewis GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who seized the city of Goma extended their advance on Wednesday, and Congo said it planned a campaign to recover lost territory. While saying he …
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By Jennifer Rigby, Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – Health and humanitarian groups around the world were still uncertain on Wednesday if and how they could resume work after the United States issued a waiver for “life-saving” assistance in President Donald Trump’s freeze on U.S. foreign aid. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued …
By Sonia Rolley (Reuters) – Rwanda, which diplomats say backs M23 fighters who seized Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo this week, called on Wednesday for a ceasefire across eastern Congo and for Congo to negotiate with the rebels while denying Rwandan troops were involved. Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe told Reuters by telephone that …
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By Edwin Waita and Hereward Holland GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in the east have surrendered and were on their way home on Wednesday. Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo, was …
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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Migrants expressed their dismay and sense of betrayal on Wednesday over Italy’s decision last week to release a Libyan policeman wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and human rights abuses and allow him to return home. One of the migrants said he still had nightmares …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan’s Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport on Wednesday, killing 20 people, the region’s information minister said. The plane had departed for the capital Juba when it went down, Gatwech Bipal said. The passengers were oil workers of the Greater Pioneer Operating …
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians, an “act of injustice” that would threaten Egyptian security, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Wednesday in his first public response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for Cairo to take in residents of the Gaza Strip. Speaking at a press conference with …
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By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been placed under investigation over a government decision to release a Libyan police officer wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Here is the background to the case and a look at what might happen next. WHO IS THE LIBYAN AT THE CENTRE …
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