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Sudan orders three Chad diplomats to leave in ‘reciprocal’ action -report

17 Dec 2023

CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan has ordered three diplomats from Chad to leave the country within 72 hours, saying the individuals were “persona non grata”, the Sudanese state news agency reported on Sunday. The move by Sudan follows Chad declaring four Sudanese diplomats at the Sudanese embassy in N’Djamena as unwelcome a day earlier, the agency …

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Sixty-one migrants drown in shipwreck off Libya – IOM

17 Dec 2023

CAIRO (Reuters) -Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said. IOM, in a post on social media platform X, quoted survivors as saying the boat, carrying around 86 people, departed the Libyan city of Zwara, about 110 km (68 miles) from the …

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Thousands flee as battle for Sudan’s Wad Madani opens up new front

17 Dec 2023

DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces battled the army outside the central city of Wad Madani on Saturday, pressing an attack that has opened a new front in the eight-month-old war and forced thousands to flee, witnesses said. Crowds of people – many of whom had taken refuge in the city from violence in …

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Pockets of violence mar Congo election campaign, threaten vote

17 Dec 2023

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Two candidates running for parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Dec. 20 general election were killed in separate incidents on Friday, as a rights group warned in a report on Saturday that electoral violence risks undermining the vote. A candidate for the ruling coalition in the South …

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Chad declares four Sudanese diplomats persona non grata- government statement

16 Dec 2023

N’DJAMENA (Reuters) -The Chad government on Sunday said it had declared four Sudanese diplomats persona non grata and ordered them to leave within 72 hours following what it called “grave statements” by Sudanese officials accusing it of interfering in the conflict in Sudan. The diplomats are the first counsellor of the embassy, the defence attache …

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Congo recalls envoys to Kenya and Tanzania over alliance launch in Nairobi

16 Dec 2023

By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo recalled its ambassadors from Kenya and Tanzania for consultations on Saturday after a new Congolese military alliance that includes rebels was launched in the Kenyan capital. Alain Tshibanda, spokesperson for Congo’s foreign ministry, made the announcement on the X platform. The envoy to Tanzania was …

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Madagascar’s president sworn in for third term after disputed poll

16 Dec 2023

By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina was sworn in on Saturday for a third term after being declared winner of last month’s presidential election, and vowed to pursue industrialisation and unity in the Indian Ocean island country. Rajoelina, 49, first came to power in a 2009 coup. He stepped down in …

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Ivory Coast court suspends main opposition party’s elective congress

16 Dec 2023

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – A court in Ivory Coast has suspended an elective congress of the country’s main opposition party in which the former chief executive of Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thiam, is among the contenders for the presidency. The court of first instance in the capital Abidjan on Friday ordered the suspension of the congress, which …

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Warship rushes in to investigate suspected pirate attack off Somalia

16 Dec 2023

By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) -A Spanish navy ship is sailing at full speed towards a Maltese-flagged commercial vessel that may have been hijacked by pirates off Somalia, the European Union’s Somali counter piracy force said on Friday. If confirmed, it would be the first successful hijacking involving Somali pirates since 2017 when a crackdown …

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