By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s new Labour interior minister on Monday accused the previous, Conservative government of concealing the fact that it expected to spend 10 billion pounds ($13 billion) on a now-scrapped plan to deport thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new government scrapped the plan after comfortably winning …
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 26 people in an attack on a village in central Mali’s insurgent-hit Mopti region on Sunday, a local official said on Monday. The attack targeted a village in the Circle of Bankass, one of several areas in Mali’s north and centre where jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic …
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By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – Civilians in Sudan have suffered horrendous levels of violence during more than a year of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force, facing repeated attacks, abuse and exploitation by both sides, the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders – MSF) said on Monday. The physical …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian artist Fola David is seeking the Guinness record for the largest drawing by an individual after spending six days on his piece in a stadium in the commercial capital Lagos. David, also a medical doctor, said his 1,050 square metre “Unity in Diversity” artwork showing two giant hands holding Nigeria’s map …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -Soldiers and police sealed off the headquarters of Uganda’s biggest opposition party on Monday in what a police spokesperson called a precautionary move ahead of anti-government protests planned for Tuesday despite a ban. In posts on social media platform X, National Unity Platform party chief Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as …
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Dozens of fighters were killed in clashes on Monday in the southern tip of Somalia when al Shabaab militants tried to overrun three army bases, officials and the insurgent group said. A local security official said government forces repulsed the attacks and safely detonated four car bombs around 80 …
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has fired two senior members of government including the foreign minister in a mini-cabinet reshuffle, her office said. The changes came as Hassan seeks to regain trust from foreign powers over a programme of economic and political reforms, including easing restrictions on opposition parties and …
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By Borja Suarez SAN BARTOLOME DE TIRAJANA, Spain (Reuters) – Dozens of exhausted migrants arrived in a wooden boat on a beach in Spain’s Canary Islands early on Friday amid a sharp rise in perilous crossings from Africa, with emergency personnel and a few stunned beachgoers rushing to help. The boat carrying 64 people made …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African police have uncovered an industrial scale meth manufacturing lab in one of the country’s biggest ever drug busts and arrested four suspects including two Mexicans, they said on Saturday. The laboratory was discovered on a farm in Groblersdal, a small town in Limpopo province, the police said in a statement. …
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey is set to send navy support to Somali waters after the two countries agreed Ankara will send an exploration vessel off the coast of Somalia to prospect for oil and gas. President Tayyip Erdogan submitted a motion to the Turkish parliament late on Friday, seeking authorisation for the deployment of Turkish …
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