TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s coastguard has recovered the bodies of nine migrants while six others are still missing after their boat sank off the Tunisian coast, a judicial official said on Thursday, in the latest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean. The coastguard has so far rescued 27 people who were on the boat when it …
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By Nyasha Chingono CHIVI, Zimbabwe (Reuters) – Zimbabwe appears to be heading into another dry spell that could worsen hunger for millions of people already suffering from an El Nino-induced drought, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Thursday. The drought in Southern Africa that started early this year has been the worst in decades …
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By Abdou Moustoifa MORONI (Reuters) – A court in Comoros released two women on Thursday after a judge found them guilty of engaging in gay sexual activity and sentenced them for a shorter period than they had already served in detention. The pair, whose names were not released, were arrested in June on charges of …
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia said on Thursday it had pulled federal troops out of the southwestern Lower Juba region, after clashes with local forces from Jubbaland state which has broken off ties with the central government. Heavy fighting broke out around the coastal town of Ras Kamboni on Wednesday, where hundreds of …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Somalia and Ethiopia said they would work together to resolve a dispute over Addis Ababa’s plan to build a port in the breakaway region of Somaliland, which had drawn in regional powers and threatened to further destabilise the Horn of Africa. The two countries’ leaders said they had agreed to find commercial arrangements …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – British security firm Ambrey said on Wednesday that two reportedly drowned as a boat with 130 people aboard capsized south of Tunisia’s Chebba. (Reporting by Jaidaa Taha and Yomna Ehab)
By Abdiqani Hassan and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU/GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) -Clashes erupted on Wednesday between forces from Somalia’s federal government and the semi-autonomous Jubbaland region, raising concerns that internal rivalries are diverting attention from the fight against the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group. The violence in the strategically important region, which follows an election held there …
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By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued overnight after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said on Wednesday. Germany’s CompassCollective said crew on its vessel were en route to another emergency when they heard shouting from the …
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By Kopano Gumbi JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that existing debt relief mechanisms were far from adequate to address global vulnerabilities, calling on the Group of Twenty nations to do more to deliver financial justice. Guterres made the comments during a visit to South Africa, which became the first …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria suffered a widespread electricity blackout after its national grid collapsed on Wednesday, the country’s power distribution companies said. Nigeria’s grid is prone to failure and has this year suffered partial or total collapse at least 10 times, mainly due to faults and vandalism at power installations. Distribution companies across Nigeria, also …
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