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President Ghazouani holds early lead as Mauritania counts votes

30 Jun 2024

By Kissima Diagana NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) -Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani opened an early lead as vote-counting was underway after Saturday’s presidential election, provisional results from the country’s electoral commission showed. Ghazouani was leading with 49%, while his main rival, prominent anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid, was at 22.68%, with around 6.49% of total votes counted, …

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Cricket-Indian joy, US make mark at biggest T20 World Cup

29 Jun 2024

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Reuters) -India won the Twenty20 World Cup title on Saturday after prevailing by seven runs in a heart-stopping final against South Africa to end their 11-year wait for a global title. The clash between the tournament’s two unbeaten sides lived up to expectations and provided intense drama that culminated with India claiming their …

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Haiti PM travels to US as Kenyan police patrol capital

29 Jun 2024

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille left Port-au-Prince on Friday to travel to Washington and New York, as freshly deployed Kenyan police officers began patrolling the city as part of a U.N.-backed mission to battle armed gangs that have taken over the capital. Conille’s office said he would travel with Foreign Minister Dominique …

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Kenyan activists call for fresh protests demanding Ruto’s resignation

28 Jun 2024

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan activists on Friday circulated calls for fresh protests, strikes and sit-ins demanding President William Ruto quit, after nationwide demonstrations forced him to U-turn on proposed tax hikes. Ruto withdrew the contested finance bill on Wednesday and said he would listen to young people, a day after parliament was briefly stormed and …

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S.Africa’s DA committed to cabinet negotiations, ANC says talks ‘almost done’

28 Jun 2024

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South Africa’s Democratic Alliance (DA) is committed to working out a deal over posts in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet, a party source close to the talks told Reuters on Friday, in response to reports that negotiations were at risk of collapse. A senior official on the negotiating team for …

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After dramatic tax win, Kenya’s young protesters plot next moves

28 Jun 2024

By Aaron Ross, Giulia Paravicini NAIROBI (Reuters) -After their stunning success in forcing the government to shelve $2.7 billion in tax hikes, young Kenyan activists are setting their sights higher, taking aim at ingrained corruption and misgovernance.  Protesters say the finance bill that President William Ruto abandoned on Wednesday was only a symptom of the …

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Nigeria’s northeast risks mass hunger as UN funding dwindles

28 Jun 2024

By Ope Adetayo ABUJA (Reuters) – The United Nations humanitarian agency is struggling to secure funding to combat severe food insecurity in Nigeria’s insurgency-hit northeast, raising fears of mass hunger and deaths, its resident coordinator warned. In April, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) launched a $306 million appeal alongside …

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Haiti residents cautiously hopeful as first Kenyan police deploy

28 Jun 2024

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Residents in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince expressed cautious hope after a first contingent of Kenyan police officers arrived in the Caribbean country, as part of a long-delayed mission to help police fight armed gangs. A few hundred Kenyan police officers landed in Haiti this week to lead a United Nations-ratified mission set …

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Kenyan police fire on protesters in new clashes after president’s tax climbdown

27 Jun 2024

By Aaron Ross and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo NAIROBI (Reuters) -A climbdown by Kenya’s president over plans to raise taxes brought no end to nationwide protests on Thursday, with at least two people reported killed in clashes near the capital Nairobi and others shot by police elsewhere. A day after President William Ruto abandoned a tax hike …

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