N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad repatriated 157 of its citizens who had been detained in neighbouring Libya on Tuesday, working in partnership with the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Libyan state, its foreign ministry said in a statement. The Chadian nationals were flown back to the Sahel country on a special flight, …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan security forces detained dozens of young people on Tuesday, a rights group said, as they took part in a banned protest rally in downtown Kampala against official corruption and alleged human rights abuses by the country’s rulers. A Reuters witness saw the detentions being made, while a video posted …
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NIAMEY (Reuters) – Fifteen Nigerien soldiers have been killed and another 16 injured while battling armed militants, Niger’s defence ministry said in a statement read out on state television on Tuesday. The military-led government said that 21 of the armed militants had also been killed in Monday’s fighting, which took place between the towns of …
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FREETOWN (Reuters) – A high court in Sierra Leone has sentenced 11 people including soldiers and police officers to long prison terms for their alleged roles in a failed military coup last year. Gunmen on Nov. 26 attacked military barracks, a prison and other locations in Sierra Leone, freeing about 2,200 inmates and killing more …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has jumped to 229 and could rise further as the search for survivors and casualties continued into a second day, a government official said on Tuesday. Following heavy rain a landslide buried people in Gofa zone in Southern Ethiopia regional state on Sunday …
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By MacDonald Dzirutwe LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s police chief warned against Kenyan-style protests on Tuesday after frustrated citizens used online platforms to call for demonstrations against poor governance and a cost of living crisis. In what could be President Bola Tinubu’s biggest challenge, Nigerians have taken inspiration from young Kenyans – whose protests forced a …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities have extended the pretrial detention of at least 125 people and arrested two journalists shortly before holding a national dialogue on Tuesday to discuss pretrial detention policies, rights lawyers and groups say. Most of those detained were swept up in a wave of arrests following calls for protests on July …
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By Edwin Waita NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya’s police fired tear gas to prevent scuffles between groups of protesters and government supporters in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, as youth-led demonstrations against alleged corruption and misgovernance dragged into their sixth week. Protests, which began in opposition to tax hikes and climaxed in the storming of parliament, have …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya has submitted an economic repair plan to the International Monetary Fund and it expects the fund’s board to review it for approval at the end of August, the country’s chief minister told a parliamentary panel. Kenya had to rapidly draw up new spending cuts after widespread youth-led protests against …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -At least 50 bodies were pulled from the mud on Monday following two landslides in southern Ethiopia, a local official said. “There was a heavy rain yesterday night and some people died from a landslide,” said Kassahun Abayneh, the government spokesperson for Gofa district in the South Ethiopia regional state. “In the …
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