(Reuters) – Twenty-two people were killed after a two-storey school building collapsed in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, Sky news reported on Saturday. A total of 154 people were trapped under the debris, and everyone apart from those who died was rescued and is being treated for injuries in various hospitals, Sky news said citing a …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday night, killing five and injuring 20 as patrons were watching the final of the Euro 2024 football tournament on TV, police said, blaming Islamist insurgents. The bomb destroyed 10 cars and damaged several buildings nearby in a well-guarded area …
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By Tim Cocks PRETORIA (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa warned other developing nations on Monday that future carbon taxes proposed by rich countries would damage their economies unless they act swiftly to ditch fossil fuels in favour of green energy. Addressing a National Treasury and World Bank climate change conference in the capital …
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By Hatem Maher CAIRO (Reuters) – When Ahmed Elgendy met Mohamed Salah in January, he was given a pep talk and posed for a picture with the Egyptian soccer star while wearing the modern pentathlon silver medal that he earned at the Tokyo Olympics. Yet the 24-year-old dreams of taking another photo with Salah after …
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By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) – U.N. peacekeepers are unlikely to proceed with an agreed withdrawal from Congo’s conflict-torn North Kivu for as long as Rwandan troops remain in the eastern province, the Congolese foreign minister said on Saturday. North Kivu is battling a two-year insurgency by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia that has displaced more …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Nations mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called on Saturday for the immediate release of a journalist detained in Tripoli two days ago, adding all media workers should be kept safe. UNSMIL said it was concerned by “the arbitrary arrest and detention of journalist Ahmed Sanussi on 11 July”. Sanussi is the …
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By Sofia Christensen BANJUL (Reuters) – For Mariama Jarjou, taking her two daughters to a traditional circumciser when they were 5 and 4 was an act of love – a painful but important ritual that would give them status in their village and make them eligible for marriage. An uncut woman is a “solima” in …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya’s police chief Japhet Koome resigned on Friday following intense criticism of officers’ conduct during anti-government protests last month in which at least 39 people were killed. President William Ruto’s office announced Koome’s resignation the day after he fired nearly his entire cabinet, bowing to the demands of protesters. Koome’s deputy Douglas Kanja …
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By David Lewis, Cooper Inveen NAIROBI (Reuters) -Luxury cars, private helicopters, mounds of cash. The lavish lifestyles of Kenya’s lawmakers, splashed across TikTok and X, added fuel to anger simmering last month among a young, plugged-in population over proposed tax hikes. Weeks-long protests about the tax measures have increasingly drawn attention to the large salaries, …
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By Joshua Inusa ABUJA (Reuters) – At least seven lifeless bodies have been pulled from the rubble of a collapsed school building in central Nigeria’s Plateau state on Friday, a Reuters witness said. The two-story building, belonging to Saint Academy in the Busa Buji community of Jos north district in the state, gave way during …
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