NAIROBI (Reuters) – A fire broke out at a girls’ boarding school in a town in central Kenya late on Saturday, leaving at least three students injured and destroying property, the Kenya Red Cross and police said. The fire follows the death of at least 21 students in a blaze at a boarding primary school, …
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ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian presidential candidate Abdelaali Hassani Cherif’s campaign said in a statement on Sunday that it had recorded cases of violations in the country’s Saturday presidential election, initial results of which have yet to be announced. The campaign said the violations included putting pressure on some polling station officials to inflate the results, …
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By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) -Algerians voted on Saturday in an election in which military-backed President Abdulmadjid Tebboune is widely expected to win a second term, but early turnout figures suggested little enthusiasm among voters. By 5.00 p.m. (1600 GMT) only 26.5% of registered voters had cast ballots, the electoral commission said, announcing that polling …
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By Duncan Miriri and Laurie Chen NAIROBI/BEIJING (Reuters) – China stopped short of providing the debt relief sought by many African countries this week, but pledged 360 billion yuan ($50.7 billion) over three years in credit lines and investments. The Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) launched in 2000 took on an enhanced role after the …
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RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco has stopped 45,015 people from illegally migrating to Europe since January and busted 177 migrant trafficking gangs, Morocco’s state news agency MAP reported on Friday, citing interior ministry data. It did not give comparative data for the same period in 2023 and the interior ministry did not respond to a Reuters …
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(Reuters) – The French capital will pay tribute to Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set on fire by her boyfriend, by naming a sports facility in her honour, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Friday. The marathon runner, who competed in the Paris Games last month died on Thursday, four days after she was …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Both sides in Sudan’s civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect civilians, a U.N.-mandated mission said on Friday. Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have both raped and …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -A fire killed 17 boys when it tore through the dormitory in which they were sleeping at a boarding school in central Kenya in the early hours of Friday, police said. “We saw several children in there that had been burnt,” Phillip Gathogo, a local resident, told reporters. “I was just lucky to …
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NAIROBI/ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) -Moureen Atieno Omolo was unable to sleep for days after hearing about the deadly attack on Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, whose former boyfriend doused her in petrol and set her ablaze on Sunday. Every time the now 36-year-old Kenyan closed her eyes, memories of her own nightmarish marriage came flooding back. Cheptegei, …
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s spy chief visited Libya as backers of the Tripoli government search for a way out of a political impasse that has shut down Libya’s oil exports and jeopardised four years of relative stability. A Turkish security source said on Friday that Ibrahim Kalin, head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT), had met …
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