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Nigerian court sets November 20 judgment date for southeastern separatist Kanu’s case​

7 Nov 2025

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -A Nigerian federal high court has set a November 20 date to issue its judgment in separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu’s terrorism case, after Kanu refused for the sixth time to enter a defence against government allegations that he led an outlaw group fighting to separate the southeastern region off from …

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Nigeria’s army chief vows to crush insurgents amid US pressure over religious violence

7 Nov 2025

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s new army chief promised on Friday to step up military operations against Islamist militias in the northeast, days after U.S. President Donald Trump warned of possible military action if Abuja fails to curb violence against Christians. Trump last week designated Nigeria a “country of particular concern”, a list of …

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France urges nationals to leave Mali as soon as possible

7 Nov 2025

PARIS (Reuters) -French Foreign Ministry on Friday recommended the country’s nationals to leave Mali temporarily as soon as possible through commercial flights and not by land as main roads have be targeted by “attacks from terrorist groups”. The ministry has reiterated its formal advice against travelling to the African country “regardless of the reason”. (Reporting …

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Tanzania charges 145 people with treason over election protests, filings show

7 Nov 2025

By Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) -Prosecutors in Tanzania charged at least 145 people with treason on Friday for alleged involvement in violent protests that broke out during last week’s presidential and parliamentary elections, according to court filings seen by Reuters.  The main opposition party, CHADEMA, and some human rights activists say that security forces killed …

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World Food Programme may have to pause food aid in Congo due to record low funding

7 Nov 2025

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. World Food Programme warned on Friday it may have to pause food aid to help millions of malnourished people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by February due to a major funding crisis. “We’re at historically low levels of funding. We’ve probably received about $150 million this …

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Sudan’s RSF agrees to US proposal for humanitarian ceasefire

7 Nov 2025

(Reuters) -Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces agreed to a proposal from the United States and Arab powers for a humanitarian ceasefire and is open to talks on a cessation of hostilities, it said on Thursday in a statement. Both the RSF and the Sudanese army have agreed to various ceasefire proposals during their two-and-a-half-year-old war, …

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UN rights body plans emergency session on Sudan, document shows

6 Nov 2025

GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on the situation in al-Fashir, Sudan, following grave concerns about mass killings during the fall of the city to paramilitary forces, a U.N. diplomatic note showed on Thursday. The Rapid Support Forces’ capture of al-Fashir, the Sudanese army’s last holdout in Darfur, marked …

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France says insecurity in Mali shows its pivot to Russia has failed

6 Nov 2025

PARIS (Reuters) -France’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that the decision by the military-led government in Mali to turn to Russia and armed groups linked to Moscow for security assistance to fight Islamist militants had proven to be a failure. A two-month-old fuel blockade by al Qaeda-linked militants has all but paralysed Mali’s capital Bamako, …

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