GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Around 20 civilians were killed in an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, the army and M23 rebels said, accusing each other of launching the assault. The deaths were the latest fallout from fighting between Congolese troops and M23, whose offensives have forced tens of …
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(Reuters) – A contingent of Russian military personnel flew into Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in what appeared to be the first significant deployment of Russian troops to the West African country, two foreign security sources said on Thursday. The junta-led country’s relations with Moscow have been in the spotlight since it booted out …
By Giulia Paravicini NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s deal to lease a port in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland has infuriated the government in Mogadishu and prompted concern it will further destabilise the Horn of Africa region. Under a memorandum of understanding signed on Jan. 1, landlocked Ethiopia would lease 20 km (12 miles) around Somaliland’s …
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By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) -The death toll from last week’s accident at an artisanal gold mine in southwest Mali has risen to more than 70, the head of Mali’s Mines Chamber said on state radio on Thursday. The deaths were caused after a shaft collapsed on Friday inside an artisanal gold mining site in …
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LUANDA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hailed progress in the construction of the Lobito Corridor, a rail link key to metals exports from the central African Copperbelt, during a visit to Angola on Thursday. The United States has been supporting the project that links resource-rich Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia …
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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa quit his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party on Thursday, two years to the day after its formation, saying it had been hijacked by the ruling ZANU-PF in a power grab. “Fellow citizens, this is to officially and under my hand inform you that, with immediate …
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(Reuters) – Libya’s deadly flash flood in September constituted a climate and environmental catastrophe that requires $1.8 billion in reconstruction and recovery, an international report said on Wednesday. Huge swathes of the city of Derna were destroyed in the flood, after heavy rainfall from Storm Daniel crashed through two aging dams, sweeping entire districts into …
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(Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Wednesday her government plane had to make an unplanned stopover in Saudi Arabia on the way to a visit to Djibouti as it lacked a permit to fly over Eritrea. Djibouti was the first stop of Baerbock’s three-day trip to East Africa, where she is scheduled …
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By Patrick Werr CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s sovereign wealth fund is finalising a masterplan to revamp Cairo’s historic centre now that government ministries have largely moved to a new capital to the east, and hopes to break ground on the project within months, its chief executive said. The area, modelled on Paris in the 1860s, …
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WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia’s President Hage Geingob will travel to the United States on Wednesday to undergo cancer treatment, the presidency has announced. A regular medical check-up earlier this month revealed the 82-year old head of state had cancer, his office said last week, without giving details about his condition. The president has accepted an …
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