By Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) – Soaring prices have helped fuel a food crisis in West and Central Africa, where nearly 55 million people will struggle to feed themselves in the coming months, U.N. humanitarian agencies warned on Friday. The number facing hunger during the June-August lean season has quadrupled over the last five years, …
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By Rachel Savage and Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia may have to decide on a big currency devaluation sooner rather than later to secure a rescue loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which left the country last week without reaching a much-needed deal with authorities. East Africa’s most populous country, already struggling with …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Malian political parties and civil society groups jointly rejected on Thursday the ruling junta’s order to suspend political activities and vowed to mount a legal challenge to what one opposition politician called the “dictatorial” move. The West African country has been under military rule since a coup in 2020. Tensions have risen …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is deeply concerned by a decree issued by Mali’s junta halting political party activities, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, calling on the military leaders to hold free and fair elections. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT The ruling party has already sparked concerns from Washington and others by failing …
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By Simon Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. has had direct conversations with countries accused of fueling the conflict in Sudan and has encouraged regional states to press Iran not to engage in the war, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Thursday. Reuters reported on Wednesday that Iranian-made armed …
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ACCRA (Reuters) -The presidential candidate of Ghana’s ruling party, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, said on Thursday he was opposed to “the practice of homosexuality”, a stance he promised to maintain if elected in December. President Nana Akufo-Addo faces pressure to sign into law one of Africa’s most severe anti-LGBT bills, which has been criticised by rights …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya has proposed a regional maritime treaty to defuse tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia over a deal allowing Ethiopia to set up a naval base and giving it port access in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, a top Kenyan official said on Thursday. Landlocked Ethiopia agreed on Jan. 1 to …
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By Ahmed Kingimi and Angela Ukomadu CHIBOK, Nigeria (Reuters) – Ten years ago, Solomon Maina’s daughter, Debora, was one of 276 schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitory in the middle of the night by Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militants. Global outrage was swift. A ubiquitous “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign, drawing support from the likes of …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s junta has issued a decree halting political party activities, government spokesperson Abdoulaye Maiga announced in a statement read on state television on Wednesday evening. The decree suspends until further notice all activities by political parties and “associations of a political nature” on the grounds of maintaining public order, the statement said. …
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By Abdou Moustoifa MORONI (Reuters) – Dozens of prisoners escaped from a prison in the Comoros capital Moroni on Thursday morning by walking out of the main gate, the public prosecutor and government said. The escape of 38 inmates from Moroni Prison, the Indian Ocean island archipelago’s largest penitentiary, was caused by the negligence of …
