By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A suspected gang leader known as “Tiger” escaped with the help of South African police after being pulled from an illegal gold mine last week where at least 78 miners died, the police said on Monday. The Lesotho national resurfaced from the deep mine shaft in Stilfontein while officers had …
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest of the country, with one confirmed case so far. “Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam, identified one patient as being infected by Marburg …
By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) -A Ghanaian small-scale miners’ association on Sunday said soldiers killed nine unarmed people at an AngloGold Ashanti mine on Saturday night, while the army said seven illegal miners had been killed in a firefight. Kofi Adams, local chairman of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale …
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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Four Moroccan truck drivers went missing on Saturday as they crossed the restive border area between Burkina Faso and Niger, according to a source from the Moroccan embassy in Burkina Faso and a Moroccan transport union. Three trucks, one carrying a spare driver, disappeared as they drove without an …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -At least 70 people were killed and more injured in northern Nigeria on Saturday when a petrol tanker truck overturned, spilling fuel that exploded, the country’s national emergency agency said. The accident in Niger state follows a similar blast in Jigawa state last October that killed 147 people, one …
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(Reuters) – Injured quick Jasprit Bumrah has been named in India’s provisional 15-member squad for next month’s Champions Trophy, while spinner Kuldeep Yadav is also set to return after picking up a groin issue in October. Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant, who was left out of the squad for this month’s T20 series against England, was also …
By Villen Anganan PORT LOUIS (Reuters) – Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has questioned the duration of the lease on a U.S.-British military base, he told a local newspaper, a contentious element of negotiations in which the UK plans to cede control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Britain struck a deal in October to …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s government announced on Friday Nigeria’s acceptance as a partner country in the multinational bloc of nations known as BRICS. Brazil, which holds the bloc’s presidency in 2025, said in a statement that the African country has been actively “strengthening cooperation in the Global South and reforming global governance”, which has …
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JUBA (Reuters) -South Sudan’s police imposed a nationwide curfew from 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Friday after a night of deadly rioting in the capital over the alleged killing of South Sudanese people by the army and allied groups in neighbouring Sudan. In a broadcast on state television, police chief Abraham Peter Manyuat said the …
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By Ope Adetayo ABUJA (Reuters) – When vigilantes in northwestern Nigeria’s Tungar Kara town prepared to go after an armed gang in a nearby forest last Saturday, residents cheered and prayed for their safe return. But before they set off on their mission, the town was bombed in an airstrike by the Nigerian Air Force …
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