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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -Former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, credited with ushering the East African nation into free market economics, has died at age 98, current President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Thursday in a television broadcast. Mwinyi succeeded Tanzania’s first post-independence president, Julius Nyerere, who left office in 1985 after 22 years in …

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DAKAR (Reuters) – About 20 migrants died this week when their boat capsized off the coast of northern Senegal, Prime Minister Amadou Ba said on Thursday. The migrant support service Alarm Phone said on X that the boat had been carrying around 300 people before it capsized on Wednesday near the city of Saint-Louis, and …

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KINSHASA (Reuters) – A prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday that the death of a former minister and opposition party member last year has been ruled as suicide. The news of Cherubin Okende’s death prompted small anti-government protests in Kinshasa last year, with demonstrators saying it was an assassination. A spokesperson …

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(Reuters) – The death toll in a bus accident near the southern Malian town of Kenieba on Tuesday has risen to 40, Burkina Faso’s government said in a statement Thursday, adding that its citizens were among the dead. Mali’s transport ministry said on Tuesday that at least 31 people were killed when a bus bound …

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N’DJAMENA (Reuters) -Chadian opposition politician Yaya Dillo was killed on Wednesday during an exchange of fire with security forces, state prosecutor Oumar Mahamat Kedelaye said on Thursday. Heavy gunfire was heard on Wednesday in the capital N’Djamena near the headquarters of Dillo’s opposition party, a Reuters witness said. Several people had been killed in earlier …

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