BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – The death toll from an attack in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province rose to 25 on Sunday, a local chief and civil society leader said, after a government spokesman and a U.N. document confirmed the attack on Saturday. The Cooperative for the Development …
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(Reuters) – Following are some details about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 that killed more than 1 million people. Rwanda marked the 30th anniversary on Sunday. WAR: * In 1990, rebels of the Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded northern Rwanda from neighbouring Uganda. The RPF’s success prompted President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, to …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The Tunisian coastguard has retrieved the bodies of 13 migrants off Tunisia and rescued 1,867 others in a number of separate incidents in the Mediterranean, the national guard said on Sunday. With the improvement in weather, the number of migrant boats heading from Tunisia to the Italian coast has increased significantly. (Reporting …
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(Reuters) – Mulugeta Uma and Mestawut Fikir won the Paris Marathon men’s and women’s races on Sunday to give Ethiopia a double in the event for the first time in five years. On a course that was different from the Olympic event in August, Uma won with a time of 2:05:33, beating Kenyans Titus Kipruto …
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By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) -Cameroon’s football federation (FECAFOOT) held an emergency meeting on Saturday and asked its president to propose an alternative coach for the national team, deepening a standoff with the sports ministry. FECAFOOT on Wednesday accused the ministry of unilaterally appointing Belgian Marc Brys as coach and other staff to manage …
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(This April 5 story has been corrected to say that Faye succeeded, not defeated, outgoing President Macky Sall, in paragraph 2) DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal has a new government with 25 ministers and five junior ministers, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said on Friday, following the president’s landslide election victory in March. The cabinet was approved …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Colombia has asked the International Court of Justice to allow the country to intervene in South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip, the court said Friday. In its application, Colombia called on the court to ensure “the safety and, indeed, the very existence of the Palestinian people”. …
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KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen have killed at least 21 villagers in Nigerian state of Kogi, residents said on Friday, the latest clash between herders and farmers in Africa’s most populous nation fueled by growing pressure on land resources. Edibo Ameh Mark, chairman of Omala local government area of Kogi, where the violence took place, …
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FREETOWN (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has declared a national emergency on substance abuse following calls on his government to crack down on the rising use of a cheap and sometimes deadly synthetic drug known as kush. The highly addictive mix of marijuana, tentanyl and tramadol has caused hundreds of deaths and …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – The World Food Programme said on Friday it had negotiated the delivery of the first two convoys of food aid into Sudan’s Darfur region in months, amid warnings of impending famine caused by a one-year war and lack of access to food aid. The war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid …
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