By Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department issued a “stop-work” order on Friday for all existing foreign assistance and paused new aid, according to a cable seen by Reuters, after President Donald Trump ordered a pause to review if aid allocation was aligned with his foreign policy. The cable, drafted …
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By David Lewis, Stephanie van den Berg and Reade Levinson NAIROBI/THE HAGUE – One of Europe’s most wanted fugitives, convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, has found refuge and high-level protection in Sierra Leone, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter as well as photos and video footage seen by Reuters. The images …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – One of Europe’s most wanted fugitives, convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, has been living in Sierra Leone for at least six months, a spokesperson for the Dutch prosecutors’ office told Reuters on Friday. The 33-year-old Leijdekkers, who was sentenced in absentia to 24 years in prison on June 25 by a …
By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian forces and Amhara militiamen have both in recent months killed dozens of civilians, caught in a conflict plaguing the country’s second-largest region since mid-2023, a state-appointed rights body said on Friday. Fighting between the military and local Fano militiamen, which erupted after the end of civil war …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – The military governor of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo has died from injuries suffered on the frontline during an offensive by M23 rebels in the east, a government source and an internal UN report seen by Reuters confirmed on Friday. (Reporting by Ange Kasongo; Editing by Bate Felix)
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – A federal court in Nigeria has declared the Islamist Lakurawa group a terrorist organisation, a designation that allows the military to use maximum force against a group that has been an emerging threat to security in the northwest. Judge James Omotosho issued the order on Thursday, proscribing the sect …
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By Mohamed Ezz CAIRO (Reuters) – Late at night in a Cairo public hospital, a young doctor treating a patient in severe pain found the CT scanner was broken, so relying on his clinical judgment alone, he performed an emergency appendectomy. “It was a calculated risk,” he said. “But under the new malpractice law …I …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – At least 20 fishermen have been killed in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno after Boko Haram insurgents attacked their village, fishermen and local security officers said on Thursday. Nigeria has been grappling with a 16-year-long Islamist insurgency in its northeast driven primarily by Boko Haram and its offshoot ISWAP that has led …
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By Alessandra Galloni DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) -Top diamond producer Botswana’s new President Duma Boko said on Thursday that he hoped to clinch a long-delayed sales pact with industry giant De Beers as early as Friday but underlined the need to diversify the Southern African nation’s economy. Boko, a 55-year-old lawyer, took the reins of Botswana …
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By Sonia Rolley (Reuters) – Laden with just the possessions they can carry, thousands of displaced people have reached the outskirts of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, fleeing a rapid M23 rebel advance that has taken more territory than ever before. The advance marks a turning point for the M23 …
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