By Alexander Cornwell and Timour Azhari TEL AVIV/RIYDAH (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia’s defacto ruler Mohammed bin Salman is set to press U.S. President Donald Trump to personally intervene to help end the war in Sudan during talks in Washington on Tuesday, five people familiar with the matter said. The sources — two Arab diplomats and three …
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JUBA (Reuters) -South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has re-appointed his former vice president James Wani Igga to the same position, the state broadcaster said, after dismissing a powerful ally who had been widely seen as a potential successor. Fears of a return to civil war are growing as uncertainty surrounds the succession of the 74-year-old …
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By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -New Zambia coach Moses Sichone will again be unable to take to the bench in charge of his team after being admitted to hospital for food poisoning, the country’s FA said on Monday. The former FC Cologne defender was named Zambia manager earlier this month, some six weeks before …
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(Refiles to add dropped word in headline, replace second subhead) By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Tim Cocks and Nellie Peyton CAIRO (Reuters) -Gazans said they paid $2,000 per seat to fly their families to South Africa on a trip arranged by a group offering a way out of the devastated enclave, in what South Africa alleged on …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Militants from Islamic State West Africa Province said on Monday they had executed a senior Nigerian army officer captured during a deadly ambush on a military convoy, in what would mark an unprecedented escalation in the 16-year insurgency. The convoy, led by Brigadier-General M. Uba of the 25 Task …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday named the East African country’s ambassador to China, Khamis Mussa Omar, as the finance minister in her new cabinet after last month’s disputed election. In a televised address, Hassan said she had retained Anthony Mavunde as mining minister and Mahmoud Thabit Kombo as foreign affairs minister …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Gunmen attacked a government girls’ boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police said, in the latest mass kidnapping in the country’s northwest. The assailants, armed with rifles and reportedly using coordinated tactics, stormed Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Prosecutors sought a life sentence for a Janjaweed militia leader convicted of atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region, telling the International Criminal Court on Monday he was guilty of murder and ordering others to commit mass crimes. “You literally have an axe murderer before you,” prosecutor Julian Nicholls told a …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Three people confirmed to have contracted the Marburg virus have died, while another three deaths are suspected to be linked to the highly contagious haemorrhagic disease, Ethiopia’s health ministry said on Monday. The announcement follows Ethiopia’s confirmation of an outbreak of Marburg, a highly-contagious and haemorrhagic infection in a town in the …
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RABAT (Reuters) -The Democratic Republic of Congo kept alive hopes of a World Cup place as they edged Nigeria 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw at the end of extra time to win the African qualifying playoffs in Morocco on Sunday. DR Congo now await the draw on Thursday for the inter-confederation playoff in …
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