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-Tanzania’s main opposition party rejected President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s landslide victory in elections that triggered deadly protests across the East African nation over the exclusion of her key challengers from the fray. The main opposition party CHADEMA, which was barred from the election for refusing to sign a code of conduct and whose leader Tundu …

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By Nafisa Eltahir (Reuters) -Fighters riding camels rounded up a couple of hundred men near the Sudanese city of al-Fashir at the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them. One of the captors recognized him from his school …

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(Reuters) -Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan was declared on Saturday the landslide winner of an election that set off deadly protests across the country this week over the exclusion of her main challengers. The East African nation’s electoral commission said Hassan, who took power in 2021 after the death in office of her predecessor, received …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday stating that genuine autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty could be the most feasible solution to Rabat’s 50-year conflict with the Algeria-backed Polisario Front. Western Sahara, a tract of desert the size of Britain, has been the scene …

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(Reuters) -Tanzania’s main opposition party said on Friday hundreds of people had been killed in protests over elections this week, as the U.N. secretary-general called for an investigation into allegations of excessive use of force. The U.N. human rights office said credible reports indicated at least 10 people were killed in protests in three cities, …

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