LONDON (Reuters) – Human rights group Asylum Aid said on Tuesday it had filed a legal challenge to Britain’s policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. “Asylum Aid has filed a claim in the High Court challenging the Home Office’s ‘Safety of Rwanda’ guidance,” the group said in a statement. Asylum Aid had previously signalled …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s presidency said on Monday it welcomed an announcement by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor saying he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes. “The law must be applied equally to all in order to uphold the …
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By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Gunmen in Cameroon killed a local mayor and two others in the restive North West region as the nation observed its National Day on Monday, the regional governor said, the second ambush in two weeks targeting government officials. Governor Adolphe Lele Lafrique said Mayor Ngong Innocent Ankiambom of …
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By Bhargav Acharya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Support for South Africa’s governing African National Congress has risen in the weeks leading up to this month’s election, a tracking poll showed, suggesting it may only need a small coalition partner or could even win a majority. Analysts have been speculating for months that the ANC will fall …
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By Anait Miridzhanian JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma is barred from running for parliament in this month’s election, the country’s top court ruled on Monday, a judgment that could influence the outcome and trigger unrest from Zuma’s supporters. The constitutional court ruled that Zuma’s 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – A Nigerian judge denied separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu bail for the second time in two months on Monday and also dismissed his application to be moved to prison from custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), a security agency. Kanu, a British citizen who leads the banned Indigenous …
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By Ange Kasongo and Sonia Rolley KINSHASA (Reuters) -The leader of an attempted coup on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed and some 50 people including three American citizens arrested, a spokesman for the Central African country’s army told Reuters. Gunfire rang out around 4 a.m. in the capital Kinshasa, …
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NIAMEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Niger and the United States have reached an agreement on the withdrawal of American troops from the West African country, a process that has already begun and will be finished by Sept. 15, they said in a joint statement. Niger’s ruling junta last month told the U.S. to withdraw its nearly 1,000 military …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Hundreds of people demonstrated in Tunis on Sunday in support of President Kais Saied amid widespread criticism at home and abroad after a wave of arrests that included journalists, activists and lawyers. The European Union, France and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern at the arrests and at a …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s military has captured a commander of an Islamic State-allied rebel group who is an expert in making improvised explosive devices, or bombs, that the group has used to carry out deadly attacks in the past, the army said on Sunday. The insurgent, Anywari Al Iraq, a Ugandan, was captured in the …
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