DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized back control of a key logistical base in North Darfur on Sunday, the paramilitary group said, a day after it was taken by rival forces allied with Sudan’s army. The conflict between the RSF and the army erupted in April 2023, and some of the fiercest …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Suspected jihadists killed more than 20 people in a string of attacks on villages in central Mali’s insurgency-hit Mopti region on Friday, two local sources said. The unidentified assailants struck during the day and into the evening, ransacking and burning six villages in the Bandiagara area, the sources said on Saturday, speaking …
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By Isaac Anyaogu and and Camillus Eboh LAGOS (Reuters) – At least 13 people died in two incidents in Nigeria on Saturday as crowds, mostly women and children, scrambled for charity, police authorities said. In the state capital Abuja, at least 10 people died and many more were injured in a scramble to receive gifts …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of State said on Friday that it is imposing visa restrictions on multiple individuals responsible for the ongoing conflict in South Sudan. “We note the continued failure of South Sudan’s leaders to use their nation’s resources to the benefit of its people, their failure to end public corruption and elite …
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By Michelle Nichols and Sonia Rolley UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council voted to extend the mandate for a long-running U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo for another year on Friday, further delaying an agreed withdrawal from conflict-torn eastern provinces. The Congolese government has previously pushed for the force …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters have said they will work with a planned new government to oversee territories they control, the starkest move they have made towards a partition of the country after 20 months of civil war. The RSF has been fighting the national …
GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 700 people have been killed in al-Fashir in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday, imploring the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to halt a siege of the city. The siege and “the relentless fighting are devastating lives every day on a massive scale,” …
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RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco’s annual inflation rate, measured by the consumer price index, rose to 0.8% in November from 0.7% a month earlier, the country’s statistics agency said on Friday. On a month on month basis, consumer prices fell 0.2% from October. Food prices, the main driver of inflation, rose 0.8% from a year earlier, …
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KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwanda has declared an end to the country’s Marburg virus outbreak following the recovery of the last patient 42 days ago, Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana told a news conference on Friday. The East African country confirmed its first cases of the disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever that can cause death, among some …
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By Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Splashes of vibrant colours are reviving the urban canvas of Abidjan’s Plateau district, the economic heart of the Ivory Coast. Ivorians have previously viewed graffiti with disdain and graffiti artists were liable for prosecution. But that view is changing, and graffiti murals are increasingly common on city walls as …
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