By Giulia Paravicini and Maggie Michael NAIROBI/CAIRO (Reuters) – The U.N. World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians amid the nation’s dire hunger crisis, according to 11 people with knowledge of the …
DAKAR (Reuters) – Africa has secured less than 10% of the estimated $245 million it needs to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, a senior official from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Wednesday. The continent is under pressure to curb an outbreak of the potentially deadly …
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(Reuters) – Libya’s latest oil shutdown has pushed up global energy prices. This explains the situation. HOW DID WE GET HERE? Since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi and thrust Libya into chaos, access to its oil wealth has become the biggest prize for all political factions and armed groups. Both small local …
By Corina Pons and Borja Suarez LA LAGUNA, Spain (Reuters) – On the rugby field as well as on the streets of the Spanish island of Tenerife, Moussa Diaby Wage is one of thousands of migrants from Mali seeking a better future in Europe. After crossing the ocean in a small boat from the Mauritanian …
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By Aidan Lewis (Reuters) – A conflict in Sudan that erupted in April 2023 has unleashed waves of ethnic violence, created the world’s largest internal displacement crisis, and pushed at least one area in Darfur into famine. WHAT TRIGGERED THE VIOLENCE? Tensions had been building for months before fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal has suspended all mining activity for nearly three years on its side of the southeastern Faleme river in a decree aimed at protecting the environment and supporting local communities threatened by an artisanal gold mining boom. Mining-related dredging and chemical discharges have helped pollute the Faleme, which flows from the uplands …
ZURICH (Reuters) – A Swiss citizen working on a U.S.-funded aid project has been arrested in Burkina Faso, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland and a foreign official said on Tuesday. The motive for the arrest was not immediately clear. “The FDFA is aware of the arrest of a Swiss citizen in Burkina …
(Reuters) – U.S. Africa Command General Michael Langley and Chargé d’affaires Jeremy Berndt met Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar, the U.S Embassy in Libya said on social media platform X on Tuesday. The U.S. urges all Libyan stakeholders to engage constructively in dialogue, with support from United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMI) and …
By Ayman Werfali BENGHAZI (Reuters) – Several oilfields across Libya have halted output as closures spread, engineers said on Tuesday, amid a dispute over control of the central bank and oil revenue. Presidency Council head Mohammed al-Menfi in Tripoli had issued a decision to replace central bank head Sadiq al-Kabir and the bank’s board – …
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By Sofia Christensen DAKAR (Reuters) – Hundreds were killed in north-central Burkina Faso on Saturday after suspected jihadists opened fire on them as they were digging trenches around a town to protect it from attacks, victims’ relatives and a source who spoke to wounded survivors said. The attack outside the town of Barsalogho is one …
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