DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 31 people have been killed and 100 wounded since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces renewed an assault on the city of Sennar in southeastern Sudan on Sunday, a legal activist group said. Several parts of the city including the main market have been targeted by RSF artillery fire, said Emergency …
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MONROVIA (Reuters) – Forty-seven inmates have escaped from a maximum security prison in Liberia’s Margibi County, a rural area east of the West African country’s capital Monrovia, the justice ministry said on Monday. Initial investigations suggested the inmates had managed to escape at the weekend because of a breach in the prison’s security system, the …
(Reuters) – Police in Guinea-Bissau have seized 2.63 tons of cocaine found on an airplane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country’s capital, the judicial police said. Agents confiscated 78 bales of drugs that were smuggled in on a Gulfstream IV aircraft during a raid on Saturday afternoon at Bissau’s Osvaldo Vieira International …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state’s disaster management agency said. The State Emergency Management Agency in north-central Niger state said the fuel truck collided with a truck carrying travellers and cattle. Several …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – The body of a senior Tanzanian opposition official abducted from a bus by armed men was found on the outskirts of commercial capital Dar es Salaam with signs he had been beaten and acid had been poured on his face, his party said. The killing of Ally Kibao, a member of the …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – At least six people died after a boat capsized off Senegal over the weekend, a spokesperson for the West African country’s armed forces said on Monday. The boat – a narrow, wooden fishing vessel known as a pirogue – was carrying around 100 migrants from the town of Mbour and it overturned …
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By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India plans to have a third of its heavy duty long-haul trucking fleet fuelled by liquefied natural gas (LNG) instead of diesel in five to seven years to cut pollution, according to a draft policy from the federal oil ministry. India, one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse …
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By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) -Algerian authorities declared President Abdulmadjid Tebboune the overwhelming winner of Saturday’s election on Sunday, but a rival candidate alleged irregularities in the count and fewer than half of registered voters cast ballots. Official preliminary results gave Tebboune 95% of the vote, enough to avoid a second round run-off, with Abdelaali …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues Museum in Berlin. Nefertiti’s famous painted limestone bust was uncovered at Tell el-Amarna, around 300 km (185 miles) south of Cairo, in 1912 by …
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RABAT (Reuters) -Floods from torrential rains killed at least 11 people in the provinces of Tata, Tiznit and Errachidia in south Morocco, authorities said in a preliminary death toll on Sunday. At least nine others were missing after floods swamped many villages in the area, authorities added.The floods destroyed 40 homes and damaged 93 roads, …
