BAMAKO, Mali (Reuters) – A financial worker’s union in Mali on Saturday called on employees of banks, insurance companies, micro-finance institutions and petrol stations to extend their strike until its secretary-general is released from detention. The National Union of Banks, Insurance Companies, Financial Institutions and Businesses of Mali (SYNABEF) held a strike from Thursday to …
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -Captain Vincent Aboubakar scored twice as Cameroon put weeks of turmoil around their national team behind them to beat the Cape Verde Islands 4-1 in a World Cup qualifier in Yaounde on Saturday. They moved level with Libya at the top of Group D on seven points from three matches. In Saturday’s …
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By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) – More than 50 defendants, including six with U.S., British, Canadian or Belgian citizenship, appeared in court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday charged with taking part in a failed coup and other offences that carry the death penalty. Armed men briefly occupied an office of the presidency …
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ROME (Reuters) -Another body was spotted off the coast of Libya on Saturday, a day after a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) rescue ship recovered the bodies of 11 migrants in the same area of the Mediterranean Sea and said it had saved more than 160 people from boats. Non-profit organisation Sea Watch said on social …
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By Abdou Moustoifa MORONI (Reuters) – Police in Comoros detained two women on Saturday on charges of engaging in same-sex sexual activity after they asked an Islamic preacher to marry them, a public prosecutor said. Gay sex is illegal in Comoros, a Muslim-majority archipelago nation in the Indian ocean which has a population of 870,000. …
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By Erikas Mwisi Kambale and Yassin Kombi BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Suspected Islamist rebels killed at least 38 people in an overnight attack on villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, two district officials and a civil society leader said on Saturday. Local civil society leader Justin Kavalami blamed members of the Allied …
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By Nellie Peyton and Tannur Anders JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African opposition parties said on Friday they were waiting for more details on a proposal by the African National Congress to form a government of national unity after it lost its majority for the first time in the democratic era. The former anti-apartheid liberation movement once …
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday cast President Vladimir Putin as “my dear brother” and said Russia was a consistent ally of Zimbabwe. Mnangagwa, speaking at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, praised Putin for defending the independence and territorial integrity of Russia. “Zimbabwe considers the Russian Federation as a …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda suffered a rare nationwide electricity blackout for several hours on Friday, its state-run power grid operator said, adding that electricity was gradually being restored late in the afternoon. The grid shutdown happened during the testing a newly completed, Chinese-built $1.5 billion 600 megawatt hydropower plant on the Nile river in the …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s parliament has approved government spending of 4.00 trillion shillings ($31.01 billion) in the fiscal year that starts in July, up from the 3.75 trillion shillings it approved last June for the current fiscal year. The finance ministry is due to present the final version of the budget next week, with slight …
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