By Patrick Werr CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has scuttled a controversial plan to reinstall ancient granite cladding on the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three great pyramids of Giza, a committee formed by the country’s tourism minister said in a statement. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced the …
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) has helped the national police to seize three trucks loaded with 1,500 bags of cocoa beans on the border with Guinea, the regulator’s managing director said on Friday. Low farmgate prices compared with neighbouring countries have made the West African nation, the world’s top producer …
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By Benoit Nyemba and Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) – In a makeshift camp for people displaced by floods in Democratic Republic of Congo, father-of-three Cyprien Seka anxiously watched his baby nap on the floor of a crowded tent and wondered if it would ever be safe to return home. Torrential rains swelled the Congo river …
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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila ACCRA (Reuters) – A Ghanaian legislator has asked parliament to replace jail terms for gay sex with non-custodial sentences including counselling, saying the anti-LGBT bill currently making its way through the legislature would only encourage sodomy in prisons. A coalition of Christian, Muslim, and Ghanaian traditional leaders have sponsored …
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By Diadie Ba, Portia Crowe and Bate Felix DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal’s Constitutional Council on Thursday ruled that parliament’s unprecedented postponement of the Feb. 25 presidential vote was not in line with the constitution, pitching the country into a new phase of electoral uncertainty. Opposition presidential candidates and lawmakers last week filed a number of legal …
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Track and field legend Henry Rono, who broke four world records in 81 days in 1978, died Thursday, according to Athletics Kenya. He was 72. Rono’s cause of death wasn’t revealed. Athletics Kenya said he was hospitalized in Nairobi for 10 days receiving treatment. “Athletics Kenya is saddened to announce and notify the public of …
(Reuters) – A Kenyan official who had been in Washington for talks on a planned international security force to help Haitian police fight gangs was found dead in his hotel room this week, police in the U.S. capital said on Thursday. Washington police said they found 39-year-old Nyamato Walter unconscious in a hotel room in …
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TUNIS (Reuters) -At least nine African migrants died after their boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday as they were trying to reach Italy, a national guard official said. The coast guard rescued another 44 people from the same boat off the southern coastal town of Zarzis, Houssem Eddine Jebabli told Reuters. One of the rescued …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s military said on Thursday two of its soldiers were killed and three wounded by a mortar bomb in Democratic Republic of Congo, as President Cyril Ramaphosa struck back against opposition claims that they were ill-equipped. South Africa said earlier this week that it would send 2,900 troops as part of its …
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By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he planned to sign into law a National Health Insurance (NHI) bill that aims to provide universal health coverage to South Africans, although he did not give a time frame. The bill, which will be implemented in stages at a …
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