CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned America’s top general during a meeting on Sunday of the dangers of a major conflict in Lebanon. U.S. Air Force General C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Egypt hours after a significant missile exchange between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah. Hezbollah launched …
TRIPOLI (Reuters) -The United Nations Libya mission said late on Thursday it was concerned about reports of forces mobilising in Tripoli and threats of force to resolve a crisis over control of the central bank. The mission’s deputy head, Stephanie Koury, told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that the political and military situations in …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A Hamas delegation headed by its senior official Khalil al-Hayya will arrive in Cairo on Saturday to hear from mediators on the latest round of Gaza ceasefire talks that took place in the Egyptian capital, the Palestinian group said in a statement. Two Egyptian security sources said that U.S. and Israeli delegations …
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By Ahmed Kingimi LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian police authorities have secured the release of 20 students who were kidnapped on their way to a convention in the north-central state of Benue last week, they said on Saturday, in a post on X. The victims, who are medical and dental students, were headed to the southeastern …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda has confirmed two more mpox virus infections, bringing the number of cases in the east African country to four, according to the health ministry. The two new patients were infected with the clade 1b strain of the virus, health ministry director general of health services Henry Mwebesa told Reuters, a new …
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -The U.S. military said on Friday that it would deliver 24 additional armored vehicles to Kenyan personnel deployed in Haiti who are heading a long-delayed security operation in the conflict-ravaged Caribbean nation. Some 400 Kenyan police, leading a U.N.-ratified security mission mandated to fight heavily armed gangs that have taken over most of …
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon has registered its first case of mpox, the health ministry said in a statement that did not specify which variant of the viral infection was recorded. The World Health Organization has declared mpox a global public health emergency, after an outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo spread to neighbouring countries …
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali declared a state of national disaster on Friday over floods that have killed 30 people and affected over 47,000 others since the start of the rainy season, the council of ministers said in a statement. Most years, the West and Central Africa region sees floods of varying severity between June and …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Tuareg rebels in northern Mali say they have yet to receive any direct communication from Moscow over the fate of fighters from the Russian mercenary Wagner Group whom they took prisoner last month in a battle near the Algerian border. A spokesperson for the rebel coalition, known as the Permanent Strategic Framework …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – African countries want to use this year’s U.N. COP meetings to secure a much bigger share of global climate financing, their representatives said at a meeting in Kenya on Thursday, to help deal with the increased threats from climate change. African negotiators have drawn up a list of strategies …
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