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US declares warring parties in Sudan committed war crimes

7 Dec 2023 7 Dec 2023

By Daphne Psaledakis, Humeyra Pamuk and Nafisa Eltahir WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday formally determined that warring parties in Sudan committed war crimes, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, as Washington increases pressure on the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to end fighting that has caused a humanitarian crisis. Washington also …

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UK PM Sunak’s new Rwanda plan suffers blow as immigration minister quits

6 Dec 2023 6 Dec 2023

By Alistair Smout and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set out draft emergency legislation on Wednesday which he said would pave the way for asylum seekers to be deported to Rwanda, but immediately suffered a major setback when his immigration minister quit. The “Safety of Rwanda Bill”, published the day after …

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Factbox-How Egyptians will vote for their president

6 Dec 2023 6 Dec 2023

(Reuters) – Egypt will hold a presidential election on Dec. 10-12 in which former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is poised to secure a third term that will extend his rule into a second decade. Public attention has shifted from an economic crisis to the war in Gaza during the run-up to the polls. Here …

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Stigma, regulatory barriers delay mpox response in country that needs it most

6 Dec 2023 6 Dec 2023

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – Vaccines and treatments that could help tackle an mpox epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo are lying unused outside the country despite a death rate far higher than from the global outbreak that began last year. Stigma, regulatory hurdles and competing disease outbreaks are all factors holding back …

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Factbox-Egypt’s presidential election: Who are the candidates?

6 Dec 2023 6 Dec 2023

(Reuters) – Egypt will hold a presidential election on Dec. 10-12 in which Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set to sweep to a third term in a vote overshadowed by the war in Gaza. The most prominent potential opposition candidate pulled out in October, complaining that dozens of his supporters had been arrested and that officials …

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Congo presidential hopeful Fayulu fuelled by 2018 loss

6 Dec 2023 6 Dec 2023

By Sonia Rolley and Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) – Congolese presidential candidate Martin Fayulu has a blunt message for voters: The 2018 election was stolen from him and he is back to fight for the top job he believes is rightfully his. Fayulu, 67, a former oil executive and leader of the Engagement for Citizenship …

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Development bank head at COP28 urges African exemption from EU carbon tax

6 Dec 2023 6 Dec 2023

By Simon Jessop, AbdelHadi Ramahi and Rachel Savage DUBAI (Reuters) – African countries should be exempt from a plan by the European Union to impose a carbon tax on some imports, the head of the African Development Bank told Reuters, putting the cost of the levy to the continent at as much as $25 billion …

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Rescuers pull out first survivor of Zambia landslide that trapped 38 miners

6 Dec 2023 6 Dec 2023

LUSAKA (Reuters) -Rescue workers in Zambia have pulled out the first survivor of a Dec. 1 landslide that inundated an open-pit copper mine and trapped at least 38 people who were working there without a permit, the disaster management unit said on Wednesday. The rescue team also retrieved two bodies, which were yet to be …

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Malala Yousafzai likens Taliban’s treatment of women to apartheid in Mandela lecture

6 Dec 2023 6 Dec 2023

By Tannur Anders JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday likened restrictions the Taliban has placed on women in Afghanistan to the treatment of Black people under apartheid in a lecture in South Africa organised by Nelson Mandela’s foundation. Yousafzai survived being shot in the head when she was 15 in …

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Sudanese warring parties dig in as Jeddah talks falter again

6 Dec 2023 6 Dec 2023

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi and U.S.-brokered talks aimed at halting fighting between Sudan’s warring parties have faltered again, and the country’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have pressed on with military campaigns that have caused a major humanitarian crisis. The lack of progress at the talks in Jeddah …

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