MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Gaza in a phone call on Saturday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Kremlin said, on the eve of an election in which Sisi is set to win six more years in power. The Kremlin said Putin, who announced on Friday that he …
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By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been criticised as a despot for crushing opposition lingering from a brief period of democracy, while winning praise from supporters for boosting security and driving an army-led infrastructure binge. The former military chief is set to secure a third term in a Dec. 10 …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Thabsie Mabezane, a transgender woman and LGBT+ activist in South Africa, was aware of personal safety when she met a man on the dating app Tinder earlier this year. She told him that she preferred to meet up in a public space instead of at his home. But as she waited at …
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(Reuters) – Egypt holds a presidential election on Dec. 10-12 in which Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set to secure six more years in power. The vote comes after a decade-long crackdown on dissent that has seen critics from across the political spectrum jailed. Authorities say the crackdown was needed to stabilise Egypt and that it …
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RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco on Friday joined an international campaign to phase out coal, as it plans to secure more than half of its energy needs from renewables in the next seven years. The Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) now counts 60 national governments united by the desire to make a clean break with coal-fired …
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By Sonia Rolley (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s electoral commission (CENI) has asked the presidency to provide aircraft urgently to help distribute voting materials, just two weeks ahead of national elections, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Friday. The request highlights the logistical challenges to delivering the Dec. 20 vote as scheduled …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is “very worried” about the spread of a severe form of mpox that has killed nearly 600 people, mainly children, in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, a senior official said. The country has reported over 13,000 cases in 2023, more than twice as …
(Reuters) -Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set to secure a third term in an election on Dec. 10-12. The following is a timeline of his decade as Egypt’s most powerful man. July 2013: Sisi, then military chief, deposes Egypt’s first popularly elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi, who came to power after the …
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By Sarah Young and Rishabh Jaiswal LONDON (Reuters) -Britain paid Rwanda an additional 100 million pounds ($126 million) in April, on top of 140 million pounds it previously sent, as the bill for its contested plan to relocate asylum seekers to the East African country continues to rise. The Rwanda scheme is at the centre …
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By Nyasha Chingono HWANGE NATIONAL PARK, Zimbabwe (Reuters) – Dozens of elephants have died of thirst in Zimbabwe’s popular Hwange National Park, and conservationists fear losing more as a drought caused by climate change and the El Nino global weather pattern dries up watering holes. The seasonal El Nino, which causes hotter, drier weather throughout …
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