By Jonathan Saul and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) -Pirates boarded a Malta-flagged products tanker off Somalia on Thursday, but the crew took refuge in a fortified safe room and remain in control of the vessel, maritime security sources said. A burst of armed attacks on vessels in the region – including the first involving suspected …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court on Thursday confirmed charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Uganda’s fugitive warlord Joseph Kony in absentia. Kony, leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, is being charged with 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, using …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -When Zohran Mamdani inveighed against inequality and corruption during his underdog bid for New York City mayor, Joseph Beyanga at Uganda’s Daily Monitor could hear echoes of conversations almost 20 years earlier with the then-intern on the newspaper’s sports desk. “Mamdani would sit with me in the production room. He …
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(Reuters) -Cameroon’s Paul Biya, the world’s oldest ruler, was sworn in for an eighth term as president on Thursday following a disputed election that triggered deadly protests. In his inauguration speech, the 92-year-old pledged to restore order to the central African nation and blamed irresponsible politicians and the diaspora for inciting unrest. “As I take …
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(Reuters) -Boeing has reached settlements in three lawsuits brought by the families of victims who died in the March 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, the attorney representing the families announced Wednesday. A jury had already been selected for one of the cases at the U.S. District Court in Chicago. The terms …
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By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s government said on Thursday it will investigate how 17 of its citizens joined mercenary forces in the Russia-Ukraine conflict after the men sent distress calls for help to return home. The men were lured into fighting under the pretext of lucrative employment contracts, a statement issued by South …
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By Mohamed Ezz CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt’s former tourism and antiquities minister Khaled El-Enany is set to be confirmed as head of UNESCO on Thursday, despite criticism from heritage groups that he had failed to protect cultural treasures at home such as Cairo’s “City of the Dead”. Enany, 54, was elected last month by UNESCO’s 58-member …
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By Camillus Eboh and Elisha Bala-Gbogbo ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s government rejected on Wednesday its designation by the United States as a “country of particular concern” over alleged religious freedom violations, saying the move was based on misinformation and faulty data. President Donald Trump last week put Nigeria back on a list of countries that the …
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(Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a total of 404 confirmed human cases of Rift Valley Fever (RVF), including 42 deaths, were reported by national health authorities in Mauritania and Senegal between September 20 and October 30. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
LONDON (Reuters) -The European Union’s counter piracy force has deployed a warship to the coast off Somalia after a suspected pirate group tried to target ships in the area, maritime sources said on Wednesday. Armed assailants attacked a commercial tanker off the coast of Mogadishu on Monday, firing at the vessel after attempting to board …
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