BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali’s northern Tuareg rebels said they had killed and injured dozens of soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border, after the army said it had lost two soldiers but killed some 20 rebels. The rebel movement, the Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and Development (CSP-PSD), said …
CAIRO (Reuters) -A pro-democracy group said Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 22 people in an attack on the city of al-Fashir in the western Darfur region on Saturday, though the paramilitary force denied launching an assault. The al-Fashir Resistance Committees said on Facebook that the RSF had fired artillery shells on markets, …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Police in Uganda arrested 104 people during anti-corruption protests this week and almost all of them have been charged with public order offences, a police statement said late on Friday. The government’s response to the street protests drew criticism from rights campaigners and the United States, which said it was “concerned” by …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian courts convicted 125 Boko Haram Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences in a mass trial this week, the attorney-general’s office said. A Boko Haram insurgency has killed thousands of people and displaced millions since it began in 2009, creating a humanitarian crisis in northeastern …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least seven Nigerian soldiers were killed after a mine exploded on a highway in Borno state, the hotbed of a Boko Haram militant insurgency, two vigilante officers said on Friday. Nigeria faces a raft of security challenges including a long-running Islamist insurgency in the northeast, separatist violence in the southeast, …
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(Reuters) – European Union member states imposed sanctions on Friday on nine individuals and one entity for human rights violations and abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and for their role in sustaining the conflict in the east of the country. The list includes two leaders of the M23 rebel group, a Tutsi-led group …
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BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Burundi has reported three cases of mpox in its commercial capital and a nearby town, its health ministry said. The cases of the viral infection, two in Bujumbura, and on Isare, about 30 km (18.64 miles) from Bujumbura, were confirmed after a local laboratory and the World Health Organization conducted tests, Lydwine …
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By Borja Suarez SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain (Reuters) – Smiling broadly, perhaps to hide their nervousness, dozens of young African migrants wearing swimming goggles took their first strokes and exhaled into knee-deep water on a Tenerife beach, led by Spanish volunteer instructors. Many are suffering from water trauma after a perilous crossing to the …
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By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa, the world’s 14th biggest carbon emitter, has made strong commitments to climate action but is moving too slowly to wean itself off coal and roll out renewables to meet them, a key report said on Thursday. Africa’s most industrialised country has been lauded for making ambitious pledges …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Algeria expressed “great regret and strong denunciation” on Thursday about the French government’s decision to recognize an autonomy plan for the Western Sahara region “within Moroccan sovereignty”. Algeria was informed of the decision by France in recent days, an Algerian foreign ministry statement added. The ministry also said Algeria would draw all …
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