By Mark Gleeson ABIDJAN (Reuters) -Guinea scored with the last kick of the game to end the giant-killing run of Equatorial Guinea at the Africa Cup of Nations and book themselves a slot in the quarter-finals with a 1-0 victory at Alassane Ouattara Olympic Stadium on Sunday. Mohamed Bayo’s superb glancing header in the eighth …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least six schoolchildren were killed in northeast Nigeria by an improvised explosive device which they had mistaken for scrap metal, police and a local official said on Sunday. The children, aged between 13 and 15, picked up the explosive device along with some scrap metal and stored it in an …
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JUBA (Reuters) – A United Nations peacekeeper from Ghana has been killed alongside some civilians after clashes between rival local groups in the Abyei region on South Sudan’s border with Sudan, a U.N. statement said. According to the statement by the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), the clashes occurred in three locations …
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By Boureima Balima and Tiemoko Diallo NIAMEY/BAMAKO (Reuters) -Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, three West African states led by the military, said on Sunday they are immediately leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional economic bloc that has been urging them to return to democratic rule. The decision by the three, …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Defying pressure by leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to restore constitutional rule, junta leaders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso said on Sunday they were quitting the regional bloc. The decision is a blow to regional integration after the bloc suspended the three countries following military takeovers. …
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By Garba Muhammad KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Sunday said it regretted a strike that killed dozens of civilians and injured others a year ago, accepting for the first time its responsibility for the incident investigated by Reuters. Dozens of ethnic Fulani herders died in the January 2023 aerial bombing …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda has distanced itself from an opinion written by a Ugandan judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) dissenting from the panel’s ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, and said the remarks do not reflect Uganda’s position. Julia Sebutinde was the only judge on the 17-member ICJ panel to vote …
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said on Saturday it has deployed troops to secure a corridor for people fleeing more violence in the east. The mission, MONUSCO, said some 1,000 displaced people have been sheltered since Friday after they fled the town …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali’s junta on Friday issued a decree to establish a committee to organise national peace and reconciliation talks, a day after it ended a 2015 peace deal with Tuareg separatist rebels and accused mediator Algeria of interfering in its affairs. The decision to end the so-called Algiers accord threatens to further destabilise the …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel on Friday to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire. The top United Nations court for handling disputes between states was ruling in …
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