(Reuters) – At least 65 migrants’ bodies have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the International Organization for Migration said on social media platform X on Friday. IOM said in a statement the circumstances of the migrants’ death and nationalities was unknown “but it is believed that they died in the process …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Gunmen in Nigeria killed at least 21 people in northwest Niger state in an attack at a busy market, local residents and a local traditional leader said on Friday, the latest incidence of violence by armed gangs. The attack follows the mass kidnapping this month of schoolchildren and several …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s former President Abdoulaye Wade and his Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) endorsed opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Friday, in a boost to Faye’s chances of winning Sunday’s presidential election. The move came after Wade’s son, Karim Wade, was disqualified from contesting the race for the PDS because he was a dual …
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NICOSIA (Reuters) – EU commissioner Margaritis Schinas said on Friday that the European Union could strike a deal with Lebanon to stem arrivals of migrants, as Cyprus complained it was being inundated by a surge in arrivals from the Middle East. The EU has entered agreements with several countries to help them deal with increased …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has freed the last two Al Jazeera journalists who remained in detention in the North African country following a thaw in relations with Qatar, the Doha-based network said on Friday. One of the journalists, Bahaa Eldin Ibrahim, had returned home after being freed, his wife Mona Gamal Eldin confirmed. The head …
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NIAMEY (Reuters) – Militants killed at least 23 Nigerien soldiers and wounded 17 more during an attack on a military unit in the northwestern corner of the country on Wednesday, the defence ministry said. More than 100 armed men on motorbikes and in vehicles used improvised explosive devices and suicide bombs to ambush the military …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has appointed his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as head of the military, the defence ministry said on Friday. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, 48, a general in the military, is widely seen as his father’s successor in waiting and once stirred controversy by threatening to invade neighbouring Kenya. The ministry said in …
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By Horaci Garcia and Ngouda Dione GUISSONA, Spain/BARGNY, Senegal (Reuters) – Fisherman Khalifa Ndour says Senegalese President Macky Sall is responsible for the plunge in his country’s fish stocks that forced him to risk his life to seek work as a farmhand in northeastern Spain. Back home in Senegal, his wife Mariatou Mbodj misses her …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A Rwandan-born Ohio man was arrested on Thursday on charges he engaged in a three-decade scheme to conceal his involvement in the African nation’s 1994 genocide to enter the United States as a refugee and ultimately gain U.S. citizenship. Federal prosecutors in Boston said that for years, Eric Nshimiye, …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Thursday that she will take special leave as a result of an investigation into alleged corruption during her time as defence minister. Investigators raided Mapisa-Nqakula home on Tuesday as part of the corruption inquiry, but did not provide further details on the investigation …
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