By David Lewis NAIROBI (Reuters) – Days after the killing of Chad opposition politician Yaya Dillo, in disputed circumstances, many in the conflict-racked Central African nation are worried about how his allies, powerful relatives and rivals will react. HOW DID YAYA DILLO DIE? The Chadian government has said Dillo was killed in an exchange of …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall on Friday condemned a violent knife attack on a prominent female journalist and director of a private television station. Maimouna Ndour Faye, who presents a political programme for 7TV television channel, was attacked and stabbed several times near her home in the early hours of Friday by an …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa said on Friday the killing of Palestinians awaiting aid in Gaza breached the World Court’s provisional orders in a legal case in which Pretoria has accused Israel of committing genocide in the coastal enclave. Gaza health authorities said on Thursday Israeli forces had killed over 100 Palestinians trying to reach …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights chief on Friday said that the apparent deliberate denial of safe access for humanitarian agencies within war-torn Sudan could amount to a war crime. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been fighting Sudan’s army for control of the country since April last year in a war …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopian government forces battled militiamen on Friday in the capital of the Amhara region, Bahir Dar, the regional administration and residents said, in the first fighting there since the early days of the conflict last year. Ethiopia’s military has been fighting insurgents from the Fano militia since July in a conflict that …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya and Haiti signed a security deal on Friday that Nairobi hopes will satisfy a domestic court’s objections to its plan to send 1,000 police officers to lead a U.N.-approved mission aimed at tackling gang violence in the Caribbean nation. Kenya announced plans in July last year to lead the mission to …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin and Chad have formally notified the United Nations of their intent to contribute personnel to an international force to help Haitian national police fight armed gangs, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday. Contributions of $10.8 million have also been deposited into a trust …
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Mar 1 (Reuters) – French journalist Antoine Galindo was released by Ethiopian police on Thursday after a week, his employer said. He was arrested last Thursday while on assignment in the country’s capital Addis Ababa on charges of “conspiracy to create chaos”. Galindo has left for France and is due to arrive on Friday, the …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian authorities have detained a top official in the country’s biggest labour union, the UGTT union said on Thursday, adding that the decision have political motivation and aims to hit union rights. The detention of Tahar Mezzi, who is the deputy secretary-general and the head of private sector in the union, comes …
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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s state-run electricity supplier, ECG, briefly cut off power supplies to the parliament building on Thursday in an effort to push the legislature to honour its 23 million Ghanaian cedi ($1.8 million) debt, an ECG spokesperson said. A video shared by local media showed lawmakers exclaiming in the …
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