By Monicah Mwangi and Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police fired teargas and arrested at least three people on Tuesday as hundreds protested against a wave of femicides, a Reuters reporter and human rights activists said. Several hundred people – mostly women – marched in the capital Nairobi, where they blew whistles and chanted, “Stop …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was heading to Ankara, Turkey, to attend the third round of talks aimed at defusing tensions with Ethiopia, the state news agency reported on Tuesday, in a row that threatens to destabilise the region. If Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also attends the meeting, it will be …
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LUSAKA (Reuters) -Zambia’s constitutional court ruled on Tuesday that former President Edgar Lungu was ineligible to run for another term in office after he announced his return to politics last year. The country’s highest court ruled that Lungu’s first term, which he served from 2015 to 2016 after the death of then-president Michael Sata, counted …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African champions Mamelodi Sundowns, who will compete in next year’s Club World Cup in the United States, named Portuguese Miguel Cardoso as their new manager on Tuesday after firing Manqoba Mngqithi. It is the second coaching change in six months for the Pretoria club, owned by the family of Confederation of …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – A gang of gunmen kidnapped more than 50 women and children in a raid on Kakin Dawa village in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, police and residents said. Kidnapping has become endemic in the northwest of the West African country as roving gangs of armed men abduct people from villages, highways and schools and …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI (Reuters) -A gang of gunmen kidnapped more than 50 women and children in a raid on Kakin Dawa village in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state, police and residents said. Kidnapping for ransom by gunmen, known by locals as bandits, is rife in northwest Nigeria due to high levels of poverty, unemployment and …
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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Bate Felix ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s electoral commission on Monday declared ex-president and main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama winner of Saturday’s presidential election with 56.55% of the vote, according to provisional results. Mahama’s main rival, vice president and ruling-party presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia, already conceded defeat on Sunday in …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Council of European Union on Monday renewed EU sanctions on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for another year, extending them until Dec. 12, 2025, it said in a statement. The measures targeted 23 individuals and one entity linked to human rights violations, electoral interference and ongoing conflict. Those designated …
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By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s two-test series success over Sri Lanka on Monday catapulted them to first place in the World Test Championship and put them firmly on course for next year’s final in what would have been unthinkable less than a year ago. Five test wins in a row, made …
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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco received a record 15.9 million tourists in the first 11 months of this year, surpassing the total in the entire previous year, the tourism ministry said on Monday. Tourism accounts for about 7% of the North African country’s gross domestic product and is a key source of jobs …
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