NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police said on Wednesday they were investigating suspected killings of four men on a Del Monte pineapple farm near Nairobi, months after a media report said security guards on the same farm had killed and assaulted trespassing villagers. Friends and relatives of the latest victims urged the government to intervene to explain …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces visited Ethiopia on Thursday where he said he discussed the need for a swift end to the war between the RSF and the Sudanese army, during the second leg of a rare publicly-announced foreign tour. RSF leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, whose whereabouts since …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt confirmed on Thursday that it had put forward a framework proposal to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip that includes three stages ending with a ceasefire, and said it was awaiting responses on the plan. Egypt would give further details of the plan once those responses …
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BUKAVU, Democratic Republic Of Congo (Reuters) – At least 40 more people have died in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said, after heavy downpours overnight on Tuesday unleashed floods and landslides that left residents digging through the mud to find bodies. In the city of Bukavu, onlookers gathered to watch on Wednesday as …
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By Benoit Nyemba and Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) -Congolese police violently broke up a banned protest in the capital Kinshasa on Wednesday, leaving several people wounded, and one opposition leader said more marches were planned against last week’s vote. Disputes over the Dec. 20 presidential and legislative elections threaten to further destabilise Democratic Republic of …
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MONROVIA (Reuters) – At least 40 people have died following the explosion of a gas tanker in north-central Liberia, the West African country’s chief medical officer, Francis Kateh, said on Wednesday. The fuel truck crashed late on Tuesday in Totota, Lower Bong County, and soon after exploded, killing and injuring many who had flocked to …
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(Reuters) – The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said on Wednesday he met Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, his first confirmed appearance outside of Sudan since the war between RSF and the Sudanese army broke out in April. Dagalo, whose whereabouts during the war have been unknown, said on …
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By Hamza Ibrahim and Camillus Eboh KANO/ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian mother-of-three Grace Godwin was preparing food on Christmas Eve when her husband burst into the kitchen and ordered her and the children to run and take cover in the bush after gunmen were spotted in a nearby village. Soon they heard gunfire, starting an …
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By Ange Kasongo and Sonia Rolley KINSHASA (Reuters) -Opposition candidates in Democratic Republic of Congo’s chaotic presidential election plan to march in the capital on Wednesday, despite authorities banning the protest and early results showing the incumbent with a large lead. Martin Fayulu, one of the main challengers to President Felix Tshisekedi in the Dec. …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Militants from an Islamic State-allied rebel group killed three people in an attack on a village in western Uganda, a military spokesman said on Tuesday. The assailants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked the village in Kamwenge district late on Monday, killing a 75-year-old woman and her two grandchildren before burning …
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