(Reuters) – Egypt has carried out mass arrests and unlawful deportations of thousands of refugees fleeing the war in Sudan, Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday. The rights group said it had documented 12 incidents in which Egyptian authorities returned an estimated total of 800 Sudanese nationals between January and March this year …
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By Mahamat Ramadane N’Djamena (Reuters) -A fire at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital N’Djamena triggered a series of blasts on Tuesday night, Foreign Affairs Minister Koulamallah Abderaman said, with witnesses saying at least one person was killed and several wounded. A resident of a neighbourhood near the depot said he saw three wounded …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Sudan and the United Arab Emirates clashed at the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday over accusations by the army-aligned Sudanese government that the UAE is providing weapons and support to a rival warring party in the country’s 14-month long conflict. Sitting next to each other at the Security …
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By Frank Phiri BLANTYRE (Reuters) – Malawians gathered to mourn Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima amid heavy security on Monday, a day after people from his home district launched protests over the government’s response to the plane crash that killed him and eight others last week. Chilima, 51, was laid to rest in his village …
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By Vuyani Ndaba JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Reserve Bank is seen waiting until November before it cuts its repo rate as economists continue to roll back their expectations when policy easing kicks off in response to slowing inflation, a Reuters poll found. The poll was taken before the African National Congress and its largest …
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NIAMEY (Reuters) – An armed group opposed to Niger’s ruling junta disabled a section of the country’s PetroChina-funded crude oil pipeline in an attack on Sunday night, it said in a statement. The pipeline has a capacity of 90,000 barrel per day (bpd) and extends for nearly 2,000 km (1,243-mile) linking Niger’s Agadem oilfield to …
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By Brian Benza GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s economy may fall short of the government’s 4.2% growth target for this year, a senior central bank official said on Tuesday, citing global and domestic constraints. Finance minister Peggy Serame made the projection for a 4.2% increase in GDP in a budget speech in February, saying the government …
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GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s Debswana Diamond Company on Tuesday reported a fatality at its Jwaneng mine following an accident involving a crane and drill rig. The incident, which took place on Monday, involved an employee of one of Debswana’s contracting companies, it said in a statement. Investigations into the incident are ongoing, Debswana added. Debswana …
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(Reuters) – Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin congratulated South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa on his re-election as president on Monday, reflecting continued good relations with Pretoria despite uncertainty over Moscow’s more than two-year-old invasion of Ukraine. “Hope was expressed for continued joint work on further strengthening of the partnership between Russia and South Africa in all its …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party will join an alliance of smaller opposition parties in parliament in a bid to take on the African National Congress and Democratic Alliance-led coalition government, it said on Sunday. The ANC and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance, agreed on Friday to work together …
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