By Nafisa Eltahir CAIRO (Reuters) – A top Sudanese general has said the United Arab Emirates is sending supplies to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), publicly accusing the UAE of involvement in its war with its powerful paramilitary rival for the first time. Army leaders had previously only hinted at interference from unnamed neighbouring countries …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – A Congolese youth activist was killed on Tuesday by stones pelted during an opposition campaign rally in the east-central city of Kindu, the party of presidential candidate Moise Katumbi said. The Together for the Republic party accused local authorities of seeking to stifle the opposition and allowing unnamed attackers to hurl stones …
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By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) -Sierra Leone’s government said on Tuesday that attacks on several locations in the capital Freetown on Sunday were a failed attempt to overthrow the government led mostly by bodyguards of former President Ernest Bai Koroma. The West African nation’s information minister Chernor Bah, and the chief of defence staff Lt. …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Severe flooding caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon has killed 120 people in Kenya, while people in almost 90,000 households have been forced to leave their homes, the government said on Tuesday. The latest estimated death toll in Kenya has doubled as heavy seasonal rains following the worst drought in four …
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By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) – Twenty people were killed and nearly 2,000 inmates escaped during Sunday’s attack on a military barracks, a prison and other locations in Sierra Leone, officials said on Monday. The West African country was thrown into panic in the early hours when the assailants sent gunfire ringing across the capital …
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NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger’s junta has revoked an anti-migration law that had helped reduce the flow of West Africans to Europe but which was reviled by desert dwellers whose economies had long relied on the traffic, it said on Monday. The law, which made it illegal to transport migrants through Niger, was passed in May …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An attempted hijacking of a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday appears to have been carried out by armed Somali pirates and not Yemeni Houthis, despite the firing of missiles from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen afterwards, the Pentagon said on Monday. “We’re continuing to assess, but initial indications are that …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Mohammed Takala, head of Libya’s Tripoli-based High State Council, has said the country is getting closer to holding presidential elections, according to the Russian state news agency RIA. Efforts to bring together Libya’s rival factions to hold an election have been the main focus of diplomacy for years, but there has been …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Mozambique has approved an ambitious new energy transition plan until 2050, hoping to attract investments of some $80 billion to boost renewable energy capacity and increase electricity availability, a senior energy official said on Monday. Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi is expected to officially present the energy strategy to international partners and …
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By Loucoumane Coulibaly and Coulibaly Media ASSINIE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – On a shrinking strip of beach in southeast Ivory Coast, hotel owner Habib Hassan Nassar has to stack thousands of sandbags each week to protect his property from the rising sea. Thanks to the metres-high sandbag barricade, the Kame Surf Camp hotel clings to …
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