CAIRO (Reuters) -More than 10 million Sudanese, or 20% of the population, have been driven from their homes since the war there began, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday, as the world’s largest displacement crisis continues to worsen. The number is the latest dire figure out of the east African country, devastated …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – A Nigerian court on Tuesday denied a request by former central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele to travel out of the country for treatment of an undisclosed ailment. Emefiele, who was granted bail for fraud charges, has also been charged with other offences, including illegally printing new banknotes and withdrawing billions of naira …
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By Tim Cocks PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa told climate donors on Monday that it would miss its 2030 emissions goals, but was committed to “net zero” by mid-century as it races to remove financial and other hurdles to rolling out renewables, the new energy minister said. “We have shared with the partners as late as …
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By Abdi Sheikh and Aaron Ross MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least five people were killed when militiamen ambushed a convoy in central Somalia and seized heavy weapons, the local government and residents said on Tuesday, seven months after a decades-long arms embargo was lifted. The convoy was travelling on Monday with a security escort near …
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BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – A militia group in west Democratic Republic of Congo killed nine soldiers in an army camp in a village on Saturday, the army spokesman and a chief of a nearby village said on Monday, in a province that has seen communal fighting over land since 2022. The attack …
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KIGALI (Reuters) -Rwandans lined up on Monday to elect their next president, with early results putting incumbent Paul Kagame in the lead in a vote widely expected to give him a fourth term and extend his near quarter century in charge of the East African country. The two men standing against him – Frank Habineza …
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By Sofia Christensen DAKAR (Reuters) -Gambia’s parliament on Monday rejected a bill that would have ended a ban on female genital mutilation, after lawmakers voted down all the clauses in the proposed law. “The ban on FGM is still firmly maintained in the Gambia,” the Ministry of Information said in a statement after the vote. …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – A suspected serial killer has been arrested in Kenya following the discovery of several bodies at a quarry in Nairobi, with police saying on Monday he had confessed to killing 42 women including his wife. Police said Collins Jumaisi, a 33-year-old man living near the quarry in Mukuru neighbourhood in the south …
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By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s second vaccine against malaria was launched on Monday as Ivory Coast began a routine vaccine programme using shots developed by the University of Oxford and the Serum Institute of India. The introduction of the World Health Organization (WHO)-approved R21 vaccine comes six months after the first malaria …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates reached an agreement allowing for the resumption of travel between the two countries, Nigeria’s information minister said on Monday. The UAE stopped issuing visas to Nigerians in 2022 after Dubai’s Emirates Airline suspended flights between the countries due to an inability to repatriate …
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