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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Officials in the South African city of George halted the search for survivors and more bodies on Friday at the site of a collapsed building where 33 people died. Rescue personnel and volunteers have been combing through the rubble for 11 days, after the five-storey residential building under construction in the city …

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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s prime minister Ousmane Sonko raised the possibility of closing French military bases in the West African country on Thursday in a wide-ranging speech that also touched on the euro-backed CFA franc currency, oil and gas deals and LGBTQ rights. Sonko, a firebrand politician who gained power when his hand-picked presidential candidate …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s foreign ministry said South Africa was ‘presenting biased and false claims’ that ‘rely on unreliable Hamas sources’ in response to a case brought to the U.N.’s top court accusing Israel of genocide on Thursday. “Israel acts in accordance with international law and its humanitarian obligations,” a statement from the Israeli foreign …

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By Mahamat Ramadane N’DJAMENA (Reuters) -Chad’s constitutional council confirmed Mahamat Idriss Deby as winner of the May 6 presidential election on Thursday after dismissing challenges by two losing candidates – cementing a victory that extended his family’s decades-long rule. Deby, who seized power the day rebels killed his father, President Idriss Deby, in 2021 and …

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By Djaffar Sabiti KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Families huddled near the line of small coffins in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all mourning the children and others killed in a rocket attack, many shouting out accusations against the rebels they said launched the assault. Relatives held up crosses daubed with the names …

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N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad’s constitutional council on Thursday declared interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby winner of the central African nation’s disputed May 6 presidential election with 61% of the vote, after earlier rejecting appeals to cancel or partially cancel the election. (Reporting by Mahamat Ramadane; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Alex Richardson)