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By Ashraf Hamed Atta (Reuters) -Achraf Hakimi, Mohamed Salah and Victor Osimhen will contest Africa’s top individual football award after being named the three finalists for the CAF Player of the Year prize, the Confederation of African Football said on Sunday. Hakimi, the Moroccan captain, crowned a historic season by winning the Champions League with …

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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized the importance of achieving a humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan in a call with United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed on Friday, just days after Washington’s top diplomat said action was needed to cut off the flow of weapons to the …

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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Tanzania’s president promised on Friday to investigate violence during last month’s elections and offered condolences to bereaved families, in her most public acknowledgement to date of the impact of the clashes. Samia Suluhu Hassan said the state would set up a commission and work towards “reconciliation and peace”. There was no immediate reaction …

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(Reuters) -Ethiopia has confirmed that an outbreak infecting at least nine people in the south was caused by the deadly Marburg virus, the World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday in a post on X. (Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh in Barcelona; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

BANGUI (Reuters) -Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera will face six rivals in a presidential election on December 28, after a court rejected attempts to bar two former prime ministers from standing against him. Touadera, who took office in 2016, had said in July that he would run for a third term, seeking to extend …

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By Sfundo Parakozov JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday South Africa will symbolically hand over the G20 presidency to an “empty chair” in the absence of U.S. leadership at the summit next week, while stressing the need to repair trade ties with Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump said last week no government official …

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