FREETOWN (Reuters) -Sierra Leone’s information ministry said on Sunday it was investigating media reports that European cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers is in the country and benefiting from high-level protection there. Two sources told Reuters on Friday that Leijdekkers, who was sentenced last June in absentia to 24 years in prison by a Dutch court for …
By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Suspected Islamist fighters killed at least 20 Nigerian soldiers, including a commanding officer, after attacking an army base in a remote town in northeastern Borno state, security sources and residents said on Sunday. Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have mainly operated in Borno, targeting …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – A fuel tanker truck explosion killed 18 people in Nigeria’s southeastern Enugu state on Saturday, the national road safety agency said, a week after another incident left about a 100 residents dead in the north of the country. The truck suffered brake failure and the driver lost control, crashing …
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(Reuters) – The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan’s North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens. “As the only functional hospital in El Fasher, the Saudi Teaching …
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BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) – More than 100 dead dolphins have been found on the coast of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, with officials yet to establish what caused their deaths. The region’s fisheries minister, Abdirisak Abdulahi Hagaa, told Reuters that so far at least 110 dead dolphins had been counted, not far from the port of …
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(Reuters) -Congo has severed all diplomatic ties with Rwanda and South Africa said on Saturday that nine of its peacekeepers had been killed amid a surge in fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels in mineral-rich eastern Congo. The three-year M23 insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has intensified in January with the M23 rebels seizing control …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Democratic Alliance (DA) party declared itself in dispute with the Government of National Unity (GNU) on Saturday, accusing it of failing to consult its coalition partners on bills relating to health and land expropriation. The DA, the second largest party in the government after the African National Congress (ANC), said …
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(Reuters) – Three South African military personnel were killed and at least 14 more were wounded in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, the South African National Defence Union said in a statement on Saturday. (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Toby Chopra)
(Reuters) – The military governor of Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province has died from gunshot wounds suffered on the front line during an offensive by M23 rebels, the army said on Friday. The rebels are advancing on two fronts near the provincial capital Goma in the nation’s turbulent east, where tens of thousands …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -The Sudanese army has broken a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of its command centre in central Khartoum, the army said on Friday, in what would be a major victory in the capital after nearly two years of war. The RSF in a statement rejected the Sudanese army’s claims it had …
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