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Explainer-What’s behind deteriorating Somalia-Ethiopia relations?

By Sonia Rao NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia has announced the expulsion of an Ethiopian diplomat, marking a further souring of relations between the neighbouring countries related to a port deal Addis Ababa has been negotiating with the breakaway region of Somaliland.   Somalia’s foreign affairs ministry said on Tuesday that Ali Mohamed Adan, a counselor at …

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Senegal’s president fights for mandate in parliamentary race

By Anait Miridzhanian and Portia Crowe DAKAR (Reuters) – With fireworks displays, packed rallies, and town-to-town caravans, Senegalese political parties are wooing voters in a parliamentary race that will decide the extent to which the new president will be able to implement his agenda. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been under pressure to make good …

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Bioherbicide helps lift Kenya’s witchweed curse on farmers

By Justus Netia and Hereward Holland KAKAMEGA/NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) – Catherine Wanjala’s small maize farm in western Kenya was suffering. Her crops would stop growing at knee height and her field was peppered with the lilac flowers indicative of witchweed. The parasitic plant, also known as striga, was attacking the maize at its roots, sucking …

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Soccer-Zamalek trio pardoned after court hands out one-month prison sentences

(Reuters) -United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has pardoned Zamalek players Mostafa Shalaby and Nabil Emad and the Egyptian club’s sporting director Abdel Wahed El Sayed after they were each handed one-month prison sentences for assault during a match in the UAE, the Emirates News agency (WAM) said on Tuesday. Earlier …

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Dozen Egyptian migrants feared dead off Libyan coast, security sources say

CAIRO (Reuters) – A dozen Egyptian migrants are feared dead after their boat capsized off the coast of the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk on Monday, two Egyptian security sources said, while one man was rescued from the shipwreck. The 13 men had set off for Italy in a people smugglers’ boat on Sunday night, …

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Sudan’s RSF and allies sexually abused victims from 8-75 years, UN mission says

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allies have committed “staggering” levels of sexual abuse, raping civilians as troops advance and abducting some women as sex slaves during the more than 18-month war, a U.N. mission said on Tuesday. Victims have ranged between eight and 75 years, said the U.N. …

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Around 40 killed in attack on Chad military base, presidency says

DAKAR (Reuters) -Around 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Chad’s Lake region over the weekend, the central African country’s presidency said on Monday. President Mahamat Idriss Deby was in the area on Monday to launch an operation to track down the assailants, a presidency statement said. The presidency blamed …

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Sudanese need protection, but conditions not right for UN force, says Guterres

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the Security Council on Monday for its support to help protect civilians in war-torn Sudan, but said conditions are not right for deployment of a U.N. force. “The people of Sudan are living through a nightmare of violence — with thousands of …

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