CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa picked an experienced 15-man squad for next month’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan with 10 players having competed at the last World Cup in India in late 2023. Temba Bavuma captains the side that plays pool games against Afghanistan in Karachi on Feb. 21, Australia in Rawalpindi on Feb. 25 …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion of a gas station and a gas storage tank in Yemen’s al-Bayda province on Saturday, the Houthi-run health ministry said on Sunday. Of the injured, 50 people are in critical condition, the ministry added. (Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari, Riyam Mukhashaf and …
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NIAMEY (Reuters) – An Austrian woman was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central Niger on Saturday, two Nigerien security sources said. One of the sources said the woman was bundled into a 4×4 by unknown assailants in the Fada district of Agadez, which lies on the edge of the Sahara desert. Austria’s …
By Abdou Moustoifa MORONI (Reuters) – Voters in Comoros were heading to the polls on Sunday to elect the Indian Ocean archipelago’s 33-seat parliament, a year after the re-election of President Azali Assoumani in a poll which the opposition alleged was marred by widespread irregularities. Officials from the ruling party have denied those allegations. Polling …
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N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad’s ruling party won two-thirds of the seats in the legislative election which was boycotted by many in the opposition last month, provisional results showed on Sunday, reinforcing President Mahamat Idriss Deby’s hold on power. Results of the Dec. 29 election seal the oil-producing Central African nation’s transition to constitutional rule more …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Sudan’s army said on Saturday it had entered the central city of Wad Madani and was pushing out its paramilitary rivals the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a step which if completed successfully would be its biggest gain in nearly two years of war. The army posted a video appearing to show troops inside …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somalia’s president visited Ethiopia on Saturday, his office said, the strongest sign yet of improving relations between the two neighbours after a year of tensions over Addis Ababa’s plans to build a naval base in a breakaway Somali region. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud flew to Ethiopia from Uganda where he travelled earlier on …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Authorities will put the French overseas territory of Mayotte on red alert late on Saturday, Overseas Minister Manuel Valls said, as a tropical storm nears the Indian Ocean archipelago that was devastated by a cyclone last month. A red alert asks residents to stay in a solid dwelling and cut off the …
(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Ethiopia, east of the capital Addis Ababa, early on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was shallow, at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), GFZ said. The area has been shaken by a multitude of minor quakes since a nearby volcano …
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PORT SUDAN (Reuters) – A move by the Sudanese government to introduce new banknotes and compel people to open bank accounts has boosted bank deposits and with them the army’s war effort, finance minister Jibril Ibrahim said, though some critics say it has excluded millions from the financial system. The army’s two-year war against the …
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