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Hakimi, Salah and Osimhen named finalists in Africa’s top football award

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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At least four dead as two migrant boats capsize off Libya’s coast, Red Crescent says

(Reuters) -At least four people were killed when two boats carrying 95 irregular migrants capsized off the Libyan coastal city of Al Khums on Thursday, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Saturday. The first boat was carrying 26 migrants from Bangladesh, four of whom died, the Red Crescent said in a statement on its verified …

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Caribbean countries to hold slavery reparations talks on UK visit

By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) -A delegation from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) reparations commission will hold talks this week with officials and politicians in Britain on addressing the historical injustices of slavery and colonialism, as well as their lasting impacts. At least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly transported by European ships and sold into …

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Congo, M23 sign framework for peace in Qatar, more steps needed

By Imad Creidi and Ange Kasongo DOHA/KINSHASA (Reuters) -The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group signed a framework agreement on Saturday for a peace deal aimed at ending fighting in the country’s east that has killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more this year. The agreement was signed by …

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UN rights council adopts fact-finding mission in emergency session on Sudan

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Members of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution for an independent fact-finding mission to investigate reported mass killings in al-Fashir, Sudan. At a special session of the Council in Geneva on the situation in the city in Darfur which fell to paramilitary forces in October, …

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Rubio emphasizes importance of Sudan ceasefire in call with UAE counterpart

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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Tanzania president vows to investigate vote violence, acknowledges deaths

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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Ethiopia confirms outbreak infecting nine was caused by Marburg virus, WHO says

(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)

Central African court lets two ex-PMs stand against Touadera in vote

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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South Africa will hand G20 over to US ’empty chair’, president says

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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