ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law to give more opportunities to women at the national level, the speaker of parliament said, with a target to increase their participation in governance and decision-making to a minimum of 30% by 2030. Members of parliament (MPs) unanimously passed the Affirmative Action Gender Bill 2024, …
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CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea’s transitional authorities have presented a draft of a new constitution which will reduce and set presidential term limits, and potentially allow current military leader Mamady Doumbouya to participate in the next presidential election. The junta that took power in a coup in 2021 proposed a two-year transition to elections in 2022 …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s government conditionally accepted on Tuesday an invitation to attend U.S.-sponsored peace talks in Geneva, raising hopes that the talks could advance efforts to end a 15-month-old war. The government is aligned with the army in its war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The army has shunned recent bids to restart …
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By Ahmed Eljechtimi and John Irish RABAT/PARIS (Reuters) -France recognises a plan for autonomy for the Western Sahara region under Moroccan sovereignty as the only way of resolving a long-running dispute over the territory, President Emmanuel Macron said in a letter on Tuesday. The dispute, dating back to 1975, pits Morocco, which considers Western Sahara …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Thousands of people are stranded on the streets of the eastern Sudanese city of Kassala as a deluge of rain compounds the suffering of more than a million Sudanese who sought refuge in the region from a 15-month-old war. The rainy season that began earlier this month has already damaged shelters, made roads …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – Here is a timeline of key events as Ethiopia expects to put its long-delayed debt restructuring back on course after securing a new financing programme with the International Monetary Fund: * November 2020: War breaks out in the northern region of Tigray between forces loyal to the regional government …
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By Wendell Roelf and Nellie Peyton CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s trade minister said on Tuesday he is confident his country will maintain preferential trade status with the U.S. despite concerns in Washington over its foreign policy including a strong pro-Palestinian stance. Parks Tau was in Washington last week to lobby for renewal of …
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By Nafisa Eltahir CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have committed widespread acts of sexual violence in the capital Khartoum, including gang rape and forced marriages, in its war with the armed forces, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. An HRW report said some attacks had also been attributed to the army, which …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – An al Qaeda affiliate said it killed 50 Russian Wagner mercenaries and 10 Malian soldiers in an ambush in Mali’s northern Kidal region near the border with Algeria on Saturday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. The ambush occurred on the same day a Tuareg rebel movement known as the Permanent Strategic …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) -A Ugandan court charged 36 opposition supporters on Monday with terrorism-related offences after they were deported from neighbouring Kenya where they had travelled to attend a training course, court papers seen by Reuters showed. The 36 people, who are members of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), one of Uganda’s biggest opposition parties, …
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