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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African detectives are investigating three separate incidents in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township in which a total of eight people are believed to have been murdered early on Wednesday morning, police said. South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, with about 20,000 murders recorded every year out of …

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By Catarina Demony (Reuters) – A high-level Caribbean ambassador said on Wednesday it was crucial to establish a new international special tribunal to seek reparations for transatlantic slavery and its legacies in today’s society. Reuters reported earlier this month that support was building among Africa and Caribbean nations for the creation of such a tribunal …

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GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations on Tuesday received financial pledges for about two-thirds of the $1 billion it was seeking to raise to boost humanitarian aid to Ethiopia, which has been hit by conflict, drought and floods. A U.N.-hosted pledging event, organised along with the governments of Ethiopia and the United Kingdom and held at …

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(Reuters) – The United States is providing nearly $154 million in humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia to address “urgent needs resulting from conflict, insecurity, and climate shocks,” the State Department said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Dan Whitcomb; editing by Costas Pitas)

By Ope Adetayo and Bhargav Acharya ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s drug regulator has no record of children dying or falling ill from exposure to a batch of cough syrup made by Johnson & Johnson in South Africa that was recalled last week, a senior official said on Tuesday. Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s upper house of parliament again defeated Rishi Sunak’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday, proposing changes that will delay but not block a policy the prime minister hopes could help change his party’s electoral fortunes. Sunak has invested huge political capital in the Rwanda scheme before an election later …

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By Catarina Demony (Reuters) – A United Nations forum on people of African descent opened on Tuesday with calls for extra funding to support its work and progress towards reparations for transatlantic slavery and its legacies in contemporary society. For over four centuries at least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly transported thousands of kilometres …

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