By Ange Kasongo and Christophe Van Der Perre KINSHASA (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo held a second day of voting on Thursday in a chaotic and in some areas violent general election – an unscheduled extension that some opposition candidates and observers say could open the results up to legal challenge. The presidential and legislative …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – As a Ugandan court hears a challenge on Monday to one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBT laws, there’s more at stake than the simple constitutionality of the statute. LGBT activists say the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) has given Ugandans an implicit licence to abuse and discriminate against sexual minorities. While at least five …
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(Reuters) – The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has temporarily suspended food assistance in some parts of Sudan’s state of Gezira as fighting spreads south and east of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, the aid agency said in a statement on Wednesday. Around 300,000 people have fled Gezira in a matter of days, since clashes erupted …
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(Reuters) – A bus crash killed two members of Algerian Ligue 1 side Mouloudia El Bayadh in the late hours of Wednesday, prompting the national football federation to postpone all games scheduled for this week across all divisions. The Algerian state news agency said the accident killed El Bayadh goalkeeper Zakaria Bouziani, 27, and assistant …
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By Ange Kasongo and Djaffar Al Katanty KINSHASA/GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo has extended elections into Thursday for those whose polling stations did not open on Wednesday, prompting a group of opposition presidential candidates to call for a rerun of the chaotic vote. At stake is not just the legitimacy …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Four French IT workers with diplomatic passports and visas have been arrested in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, a French diplomatic source said on Wednesday, denying a media report that they were intelligence agents. Worsening relations between the junta in Burkina Faso and former coloniser France have recently led to expulsion orders for …
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(Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s election commission has stated for months that it can deliver a free and fair vote on Wednesday, even as opposition candidates and independent observers flagged irregularities they said would jeopardise the legitimacy of the results. Africa’s second-largest country modified its electoral law in June last year to improve the …
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BISSAU (Reuters) -Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has dismissed Geraldo Martins as prime minister just a week after his reappointment and appointed former prime minister Rui Duarte de Barros in his place, presidential decrees on Wednesday showed. Embalo dissolved Guinea-Bissau’s parliament days after what he said was a foiled coup on Dec. 1, accusing the …
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By Kanjyik Ghosh MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s drugs regulator has banned the use of an anti-cold drug combination in children aged below four and ordered that drugs should be labelled accordingly, in the wake of the deaths of at least 141 children globally linked to cough syrups. The regulator said concerns raised about promotion of …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos on Wednesday lost her fight against an application in London’s High Court to freeze up to 580 million pounds ($735 million) of her assets. Dos Santos – Africa’s first female billionaire, whose father Jose Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola for 38 years until 2017 – has faced corruption …
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