ROME (Reuters) -As many as 60 people are feared to have drowned on a vessel carrying migrants across the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy or Malta, the operators of a charity rescue group said on Thursday. SOS Mediterranee said it rescued 25 people in a “very weak” condition in coordination with the Italian Coast Guard …
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By Garba Mohammad, Abraham Achirga and Giulia Paravicini KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Esther Joseph said she went “almost mad” with anguish when her 13-year-old daughter Precious Sim was kidnapped from a northern Nigeria high school along with other students on July 5, 2021. In the following days, she tried to go after the kidnappers in the …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A major internet outage affected West and Central Africa on Thursday, the internet observatory Netblocks said, as operators of multiple subsea cables reported failures. The cause of the cable failures was not immediately clear. African subsea cable operator SEACOM confirmed that services on its West African Cable System were down and that customers …
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By Sonia Rolley (Reuters) – Congolese law student Stephanie Mbafumoja was exhilarated to sit for the photo for a voter identity card that would allow her, for the first time, to have a say in the future of her nation. The 23-year-old’s enthusiasm soured when she was handed a card bearing a distorted image she …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rating agency Fitch, on Thursday, raised its estimate for India’s economic growth for this fiscal year and next due to strong domestic demand and persistent growth in business and consumer confidence levels, but tempered its view on rate cuts. Fitch expects the Indian economy to continue its strong expansion, with real gross …
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By El Tayeb Siddig OMDURMAN, Sudan (Reuters) – Some Sudanese residents cut off from mobile networks for weeks due to war between rival military factions are using Starlink satellite connections to access the internet, as regular coverage started to return to other parts of the country. The mobile blackout that began in early February has …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Backers of detained opposition presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye are taking his campaign to the streets of Senegal with posters and bracelets, drumming up support in the hope he will be released before the vote. Faye was relatively unknown within Senegal’s tumultuous political scene until popular firebrand opposition leader Ousmane Sonko backed …
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By Garba Muhammad KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen who kidnapped 286 students and staff from a school in northern Nigeria last week have demanded a total of 1 billion naira ($620,432) for their release, a spokesman for the families of the hostages and a local councillor told Reuters. The school children, some older students and …
By Bhargav Acharya and George Obulutsa (Reuters) -Twenty armed people have boarded a cargo ship off the coast of Somalia and have taken control of it, a maritime security firm said on Tuesday. The vessel is the latest to be targeted following a resurgence of attacks by Somali pirates in recent months although the maritime …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Aidan Lewis DUBAI (Reuters) – The head of Sudan’s army has told troops it will press to take more ground after its most significant advance in an 11-month-old war against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as a charity warned of a rising risk of hunger-linked deaths. Army forces, which witnesses …
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