By Nafisa Eltahir CAIRO (Reuters) – Refugees from Sudan’s civil war who fled into neighbouring Ethiopia say they have been forced to move on again and take shelter in a forest and on roadsides after repeated attacks by gunmen left their tents pock-marked with bullet holes. About 8,000 people have left the Kumer and Awlala …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The number of people internally displaced in Sudan due to conflict could soon exceed 10 million, the United Nations migration agency said on Friday, in the world’s largest displacement crisis. Fighting broke out in the capital Khartoum in April 2023 and quickly spread across the country, reigniting ethnic bloodshed in the western …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Cut off from the West, Russia is pitching its $2 trillion economy to giants like China and Saudi Arabia and longer-term prospects like Zimbabwe and Afghanistan at its premier investment forum in St Petersburg, which was founded by the tsars as a window to …
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By Issifou Djibo, Alessandra Prentice and David Lewis AGADEZ, Niger (Reuters) – At the bus station in Agadez, a town in northern Niger that serves as a gateway to the Sahara, a dozen men – their faces masked by turbans and sunglasses – clambered onto the back of a battered pickup truck headed across the …
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By Kopano Gumbi and Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s African National Congress will invite other political parties to form a national unity government, its leader President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday, after it lost its majority for the first time in the democratic era. The former liberation movement once led by Nelson Mandela has …
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By Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Sfundo Parakozov SOWETO, South Africa (Reuters) – Sinah Molokwane, a lifelong member of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, is struggling to accept that her party will be sharing power for the first time since it ended white minority rule 30 years ago. ANC leaders held talks on Thursday on potential …
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CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s army said on Thursday it would deliver a “harsh response” to an attack a day earlier on a village by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that pro-democracy activists said killed more than 100 people. The attack was the largest in a string of dozens of attacks by RSF soldiers on small …
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By Pulcherie Adjoha and Boureima Balima COTONOU/NIAMEY (Reuters) – A prosecutor in Benin said authorities had detained on Wednesday five Niger nationals for allegedly entering Benin’s Seme-Kpodji pipeline terminal under false pretences, deepening a dispute over exports of crude oil from Niger via Benin. In a statement on Thursday, special prosecutor Mario Metonou said the …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) will invite other political parties to form a government of national unity, its leader Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday, after a meeting of the ANC’s National Executive Committee. The ANC lost its parliamentary majority in last week’s election, meaning it cannot govern alone for the first …
By Giulia Paravicini HARGEISA, Somaliland (Reuters) – Wrapped in the tricolour flag of her homeland, 21-year old captain Hafsa Omer bounces the basketball between her legs, dribbles, lays it up off the backboard, and watches it clatter into the hoop. Her dream is to one day play for her nation, but there is a catch …
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