ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria’s president Abdelmadjid Tebboune has decided to hold presidential election on Sept. 7, the presidency said on Thursday. Tebboune was elected in December 2019 for a five-year term and can run for a second and final term, according to the Algerian constitution. Last year, parliament members urged him to do so. He …
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By Portia Crowe and Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) – When Aramata Djiba was arrested and taken with her four-month-old baby to a maximum security prison in Senegal’s capital Dakar, she said she felt it was the “end of the world”. “I had no hope… I cried for a week,” said the 29-year-old kindergarten teacher. She …
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Five people were killed and one is missing after a fire on Wednesday at a Perenco oil platform off the coast of Gabon, the Anglo-French oil company said in a statement on Thursday. “Following the incident which took place yesterday at the Perenco Simba field offshore Gabon, the fire has been extinguished …
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By Aidan Lewis (Reuters) – The United States hopes for a relaunch of talks aimed at ending the conflict in Sudan and opening up humanitarian access soon after Ramadan ends in mid-April, Washington’s newly appointed envoy said on Thursday. Saudi Arabia and the United States led talks in Jeddah last year to try to reach …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Legislation that seeks to block further court challenges to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda will next be debated in parliament on April 15. The government wants to relocate thousands of asylum seekers who arrive in Britain on small, inflatable boats each year to live in Rwanda, …
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By Bate Felix DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal will hold its delayed presidential election on Sunday amid an unusually tense political mood after President Macky Sall failed to postpone the vote and two key opponents were released from prison, handing momentum to the opposition. Support for Sall in Senegal, usually one of coup-prone West Africa’s most …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday pledged about $47 million in new humanitarian assistance for the emergency response in Sudan and neighboring countries, including Chad and South Sudan, the U.S. State Department said in a statement. The announcement brings total U.S. humanitarian assistance for people in Sudan and neighboring countries to more than …
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By William James and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -The passage of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s contentious bill to deport refugees to Rwanda may be delayed until at least next month after the upper house of parliament defeated the government and reinstated demands for greater protections. The government wants to relocate thousands of asylum seekers …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Two executives from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, will remain in detention for at least two more weeks in Nigeria after appearing in court for the first time on Wednesday and even though they have not been charged with a crime, their families said. Tigran Gambaryan, a U.S. citizen and Binance’s …
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JUBA (Reuters) -Young men shot dead 15 people in South Sudan’s eastern Pibor region, including a county commissioner, a senior official said on Wednesday, amid a rise in local conflict ahead of a national election due at the end of the year. A civil war that erupted two years after the country won independence from …
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