CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has refused to coordinate with Israel on the entry of aid into Gaza from the Rafah crossing due to Israel’s “unacceptable escalation”, Egypt’s state affiliated Alqahera News satellite TV reported on Saturday, citing a senior official. The official also said that Egypt held Israel responsible for the deterioration of the situation …
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A man was rescued from the rubble five days after a deadly building collapse in South Africa in what Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said was “nothing short of a miracle”. Officials said in a statement that of 81 people who were on site when the five-story building collapsed on Monday in the …
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By Ope Adetayo and Camillus Eboh KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were greeted with wild cheers, song and dance as they visited a school to talk about mental health in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Friday and the Duke of Sussex later met wounded soldiers in northern Kaduna. The couple are on …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Participants in Mali’s national dialogue on Friday recommended extending the military-led transition to democracy by three years and allowing junta leader Assimi Goita to stand in the eventual election. The West African country has been under military rule since a coup in 2020, and tensions have risen over the junta’s failure to …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to withdraw from Rafah as part of additional emergency measures over the war in Gaza, the U.N.’s top court said on Friday. In the ongoing case brought by South Africa, which accuses Israel of acts of genocide against Palestinians, the …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British opposition leader Keir Starmer pledged on Friday to “smash the gangs” who bring asylum seekers to Britain in boats, saying a Labour government would hire hundreds of enforcement officials and use counterterrorism powers to target them. Accusing the Conservative government of “gesture politics” and rubbishing its plans to send asylum seekers to …
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By Mahamat Ramadane and Anait Miridzhanian N’DJAMENA (Reuters) -A number of people were hurt in Chad, some severely, in gunfire celebrating interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby’s declared election victory on Thursday, the health ministry said, ordering hospitals to take urgent steps to help the worst cases. Overnight, volleys of shots could be heard in the …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least nine students were kidnapped from their classrooms by gunmen at a university in Nigeria’s northern state of Kogi, the state government said on Friday, as Africa’s most populous nation grapples with widespread insecurity. Armed gangs have been causing havoc in northern Nigeria, where they kidnap villagers, students and motorists …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina’s former chief of staff was jailed for three and a half years by a London court on Friday for offering to help precious stone miner Gemfields win lucrative mining rights in exchange for substantial bribes. Romy Andrianarisoa, 47, was accused of using her position and proximity to Rajoelina …
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By Kopano Gumbi, Joe Bavier JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), fighting to extend its 30-year grip on power in elections this month, would like to cast the government programmes that support Dalene Raiters and her family as a success story. But the 48-year-old doesn’t see it that way. “The ANC, I don’t …
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