By Isaac Anyaogu LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria will impose fines of up to 12 million naira ($8,200) and jail terms of up to 10 years on traffickers of ivory, pangolin scales and other wildlife in a sweeping new bill passed by its Senate on Tuesday. Conservation groups say the law could help curb organised crime networks …
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By Nafisa Eltahir (Reuters) -Sudanese paramilitary forces beat and shot men fleeing from a long-besieged city in Darfur after capturing it, according to an account from an escapee corroborated by statements from aid officials, satellite images, and unverified social media videos. As al-Fashir, the Sudanese army’s last significant holdout in the western region of Darfur, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said an Ethiopian asylum seeker who was wrongly released from prison following his conviction for sexual offences, crimes which sparked months-long anti-immigration protests, had arrived in Ethiopia on Wednesday after officials deported him. Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, was sentenced to a 12-month term in September for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and …
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LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria’s Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said on Tuesday the United States had revoked his non-immigrant visa issued last year and he was told to re-apply if he wished to try again to visit the U.S. The 91-year-old writer said in 2016 that he had torn up his U.S. green card and renounced …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) -The bodies of at least 18 migrants, who died when their boat capsized west of Libya’s capital Tripoli, were recovered while over 90 survivors were rescued, a local Red Crescent branch said on Tuesday. The Red Crescent in Sabratha, a coastal town some 76 km (47 miles) west of Tripoli, said it had …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States warned Americans in Mali on Tuesday to leave the country immediately using commercial flights, as its government comes under increasing pressure from al Qaeda-linked insurgents, who are imposing a fuel blockade. Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin militants announced a blockade on fuel imports to the landlocked West African country in early …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Tuesday that five of its volunteers were killed in Sudan and three others are missing. The five volunteers were killed on October 27 in the city of Bara in the central state of North Kordofan while distributing food and wearing …
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By Bate Felix and Ngouda Dione DOUALA (Reuters) – Cameroon’s opposition leaders rejected presidential election results that extended President Paul Biya’s rule for another seven years, saying the outcome did not reflect the will of the people in a country already battling a separatist conflict. The central African nation’s constitutional council on Monday declared Biya, …
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Wivine Kavira Mukata was in the kitchen preparing plantains and fish soup for her family on the day in February 2014 when a bomb tore through her home in Beni, in eastern Congo’s war-hit North Kivu province. Both her parents were injured in the attack, attributed by Congolese authorities …
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KWALE COUNTY, Kenya (Reuters) -Ten Hungarian and German tourists were killed along with a Kenyan pilot when a light aircraft crashed in Kenya on Tuesday. The plane was travelling from the resort town of Diani on the Indian Ocean coast to Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve when it crashed at about 0830 local time (0530 GMT), …
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