BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign minister Wang Yi will travel to Africa and visit Egypt, Tunisia, Togo and Cote d’Ivoire from Jan. 13-18, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. The visit will mark the 34th consecutive year in which the foreign minister has gone to Africa for their first overseas trip of the year, foreign …
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By Abdou Moustoifa MORONI (Reuters) – Comoros will vote in an election on Sunday that is expected to deliver a fourth term to President Azali Assoumani, a former military officer whose opponents accuse him of muzzling dissent in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation. Assoumani, who has served as the chair of the African Union for …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Al Shabaab militants captured a United Nations helicopter carrying two Somali men and several foreigners when it made an emergency landing in an area controlled by the Islamist group, a military official said on Wednesday. The aircraft encountered a defect shortly after taking off from Beledweyne city in central Somalia, Major Hassan Ali …
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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will take “appropriate action” after completing an investigation into a complaint that a drug regulator helped switch samples of cough syrup linked to the death of children in Gambia in return for a bribe, two officials said on Wednesday. The World Health Organization (WHO) linked the …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – At least 20 people are feared dead in an accident involving two passenger boats travelling from Andoni to Bonny island in Nigeria’s coastal Rivers State, local officials said on Wednesday, the first such accident to hit the region this year. Erastus Awortu, chairman of Andoni local government area, said …
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By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – South Africa and Israel exchanged allegations on the eve of hearings at the top U.N. court which will hear South African claims that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its Gaza offensive. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, also …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Morocco won a vote on Wednesday to lead the United Nations Human Rights Council after a heated showdown with South Africa, which said Rabat’s human rights record made it unfit to preside over the body. The Moroccan candidate, Ambassador Omar Zniber, received 30 votes, and his South African opponent, Ambassador Mxolisi Nkosi, …
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By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected two legal challenges to the provisional results of a contested presidential election last month and declared President Felix Tshisekedi the final winner. The verdict paves the way for Tshisekedi to serve another five years as head of Africa’s second-largest country and …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s High Court has ended its investigation into Equatorial Guinean minister Carmelo Ovono Obiang over the alleged kidnapping and torture of two opposition leaders with Spanish citizenship, it said on Tuesday. Obiang, son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, and two other senior Guinean officials were accused of kidnapping four members of the Movement …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to declare his innocence on charges that he used his influence to help a businessman seek an investment from the Qatari government and conspired to act as an unregistered agent for Egypt. “I have never violated the public trust. I have …
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