ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo agreed on Saturday to lead the party he founded into the 2025 presidential elections, spokesman Katinan Kone told Reuters following a meeting of the party’s central committee. Gbagbo, president of the West African country from 2000 to 2011, launched his African People’s Party – Cote d’Ivoire …
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By Hamza Ibrahim KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen kidnapped at least 15 students from a school in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto state in a dawn raid on Saturday, the school’s owner and a resident said, days after some 300 students were abducted by a gang in northern Kaduna state. The gunmen forced their way into the …
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By Garba Muhammad and Bosan Yakusak KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Seven-year-old Safiya Kuriga complained she was feeling feverish but her mother still made her attend class on Thursday. Within two hours, gunmen entered her school and kidnapped Safiya and some 300 other students in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state. “I forced her to go to school …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council on Friday called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Sudan, prompting China to remind it not to forget about the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and Russia to accuse the United States of double standards. Russia abstained, while the remaining 14 council members …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – A prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked a court in the capital Kinshasa to sentence journalist Stanis Bujakera to 20 years in prison, one of his lawyers said on Friday. Bujakera, a Congolese national who works for international media outlets including Reuters, was detained on Sept. 8 and later …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on two entities it accused of advancing Russia’s “malign activities” in the Central African Republic (CAR) and enabling the Wagner mercenary group, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. The entities, a CAR-based timber company and a Russia-based company, …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elections set to be held in South Sudan in December are not on a path for a credible process without urgent action, a senior U.S. State Department official warned on Friday, as the government lags in its preparations. The official, asked in an interview with Reuters whether the election …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Friday said Zimbabwean officials last month “abruptly detained and deported” U.S. Agency for International Development officials who had been in the country on an assessment mission. The U.S. State Department said Zimbabwe’s actions undermined its claims of wanting to pursue international reengagement following human rights concerns …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland’s first full trial of crimes against humanity concluded this week, with the defendant, a former Gambian minister accused of rape and murder, giving a defiant closing speech in which he claimed to be a victim of racism and lies. Ousman Sonko, a former interior minister of Gambia under ousted …
By Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) – International investors are dipping their toes back into Egyptian local debt after a much-needed rate hike, a pledge to float the currency and fresh backing from Gulf investors and the International Monetary Fund. Egypt’s local debt had been off limits to most international investors for years amid fears over …
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