NAIROBI (Reuters) – A chartered flight carrying ten passengers and a crew member crashed on Monday afternoon during takeoff in Migori, Kenya, with no reported injuries or fatalities, the air charter company said. (Reporting by Hereward Holland; Editing by Bate Felix)
LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria’s inflation rate fell for a second consecutive month in August, down to 32.15% year-on-year from 33.40% in July, statistics agency data showed on Monday. July was the first month in well over a year that headline consumer inflation slowed in Africa’s most populous nation. But analysts say August’s further slowdown could be …
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By Ope Adetayo ABUJA (Reuters) – Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape, prison authorities said on Sunday. Seven of the escaped inmates have been recaptured in operations by security agencies, Umar Abubakar, spokesperson for the Nigeria Correctional Services said in a …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will introduce new biometric passports as part of their withdrawal from a West African bloc in favour of a new Sahel alliance after military leaders seized power in all three countries, Mali’s leader said on Sunday. The three junta-led Sahel neighbours jointly announced in January they would …
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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccan authorities on Sunday prevented dozens of migrants from storming a border fence to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, after calls on social media for a mass migration attempt. Spain’s two enclaves on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, Ceuta and Melilla, share the only land borders of the European Union …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -At least three people were killed and 49 others wounded in a collision between two passenger trains in Zagazig city northeast of Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry said on Saturday. Five of the injured are in unstable condition, the ministry added. The injured were taken to hospitals and “rescue operations are ongoing,” the ministry …
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By Ahmed Kingimi LAGOS (Reuters) – At least 64 people were feared dead following a boat accident on a river in Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria, local officials said on Saturday. A wooden boat carrying 70 farmers capsized as it was transporting them across the river to reach their farmlands close to Gummi town on …
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(Refiles to remove extra word “ballerina” from headline) By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sierra Leonean ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who starred in TV show “Dancing with the Stars” and Beyonce’s “Lemonade” music video album, died on Friday at the age of 29, her family said. The news of her death was announced on …
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By Ahmed Kingimi LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s army has rescued 13 hostages who were kidnapped in northwest Kaduna state, following a military operation prompted by a tip-off, a government official said on Saturday. After receiving information that the kidnappers were about to relocate the six men and seven women, the military launched an operation at …
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By Ammu Kannampilly KINYORO, Kenya (Reuters) -On the morning of Sunday Sept. 1, Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei was preparing to go to church from her home in the highlands of western Kenya. Her ex-boyfriend called a friend of his to ask if he could borrow a lighter. He said he had “an emergency” and …
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