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By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia will receive $10.5 billion in support over the coming years if long-running negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are successful, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday. In December, East Africa’s most populous country, struggling with high inflation and chronic foreign currency shortages, became …

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By Sonia Rolley Paris (Reuters) – Soldiers from Democratic Republic of Congo’s 223rd Battalion were sent to the lush hillsides near Lake Kivu to repel a rebel advance threatening Goma, the largest city in the mineral-rich east and home to 2 million people. But as the M23 movement closed in last December, the army unit’s …

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NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger’s junta has agreed to talks with Benin’s government, led by two former Benin presidents, to help restore relations after a coup in Niger last year led to the border closing and a China-backed oil pipeline shutting down. Niger agreed to the talks after a meeting between its military leader General Abdourahamane …

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CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi named a new chief of staff for the armed forces on Wednesday, after replacing the defence minister in his newly formed cabinet, as tensions with neighbouring Israel grow with the Gaza war on Egypt’s eastern border. Lieutenant General Ahmed Fathy Khalifa replaced Lieutenant General Osama Askar, the chief …

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By Maggie Michael (Reuters) – Trapped in a Catholic mission sheltering dozens of women and children from the war raging on the streets of Khartoum, Father Jacob Thelekkadan punched new holes in his belt as the supplies of food dwindled and he grew thinner.     Around 80 people are taking refuge inside the Dar Mariam mission, a Catholic …

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TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian President Kais Saied on Monday set the presidential election date for Oct. 6 and is widely expected to seek a second term, with at least one potential candidate in jail and others facing prosecution. Elected president in 2019, Saied has not officially announced his candidacy but said last year he will not …

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