CAIRO (Reuters) -The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations is to be increased from 12 to 16 teams at the next tournament in March, the Confederation of African Football has decided. There were to be 12 teams at next year’s finals in Morocco from March 17-April 3 but CAF’s executive committee have increased the number by …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s military on Tuesday said 19 armed bandits were killed in a firefight in Kano state, marking a rare outbreak of violence in the northwestern commercial hub. Army spokesman Babatunde Zubairu said in a statement that two soldiers and a local vigilante also died in the operation. The clash occurred …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -A Nigerian court warned separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu that he risks losing his right to defend himself against terrorism charges if he does not present a defence by Wednesday in a trial that has become a lightning rod for unrest in the southeast. The court’s warning on Tuesday signals a …
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TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia has repatriated about 10,000 irregular migrants so far this year, most of them from sub-Saharan African countries, Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Nafti said on Tuesday, as the North African country faces pressure from the European Union to stem crossings across the Mediterranean. Nafti told lawmakers that the repatriations were carried out through …
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CONAKRY (Reuters) -Guinea’s junta leader Mamady Doumbouya put his name forward on Monday to stand in presidential elections on December 28, a move that could keep him in power for another five years. Doumbouya had vowed not to run when he seized power in the West African country in 2021. But a new constitution pushed …
ABIDJAN (Reuters) -Ivory Coast’s Constitutional Council on Tuesday confirmed the West African nation’s presidential election results, securing President Alassane Ouattara’s fourth term, council president Chantal Nanaba Camara announced. (Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Writing by Ayen Deng BiorEditing by Bate Felix)
JUBA (Reuters) -South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has fired the country’s finance minister just over two months after appointing him, extending a relentless churn in key cabinet posts in the world’s newest country. The South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation announced late on Monday that Kiir had relieved Athian Diing Athian of his position as finance minister, …
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By Timour Azhari RIYADH (Reuters) -The head of the Red Cross says history is repeating itself in Sudan’s Darfur region after reports of mass killings during the fall of the city of al-Fashir to the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary last week. The RSF’s capture of al-Fashir – the Sudanese army’s last holdout in Darfur – marked …
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(Reuters) -Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan vowed on Monday to move on from deadly protests set off by last week’s disputed election as she was sworn into office for her first elected term. Opponents say the vote was rigged and that hundreds died, but the government has dismissed that toll as exaggerated. Hassan, who came …
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By Nafisa Eltahir (Reuters) -A global hunger monitor on Monday confirmed famine conditions in al-Fashir, the Sudanese city taken by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after a lengthy siege, as well as Kadugli, another besieged city in Sudan’s south. The finding is the first time the U.N.-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has …
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