By Alphonso Toweh and Carielle Doe MONROVIA (Reuters) -Ballot counting was underway in Liberia on Tuesday in a run-off election between President George Weah and former vice president Joseph Boakai, in what is expected to be a closely fought vote. Former soccer star Weah, 57, who came to power in 2018 after beating Boakai, won …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Washington will resume food aid for people across Ethiopia next month, after assistance was paused earlier this year, following implementation of comprehensive reforms, according to a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) statement seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Ethiopia’s food crisis has deepened in recent years as a result of …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -A quarter of Somalia’s population is forecast to face “crisis-level hunger or worse” this year due to drought and floods caused by climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. Floods that have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighbouring countries in East Africa following a historic drought …
BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali’s army said on Tuesday it had taken the northern rebel stronghold of Kidal after carrying out a raid that inflicted heavy losses on armed insurgents. Ethnic Tuareg rebels, who have long controlled much of the north from Kidal, last month seized a base vacated by the departing U.N. peacekeeping mission, raising the …
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By Corina Pons, Horaci Garcia and Borja Suarez SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA, Spain (Reuters) – Orphaned during a coup in his homeland Guinea, teenager Moussa Camara took to sea in a wooden boat with 240 other migrants, enduring an 11-day voyage, half of it without food and fresh water, before reaching the Canary Islands. …
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HARARE (Reuters) – A Zimbabwe opposition activist has been found dead after he was abducted on Saturday during a political campaign just outside Harare, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party said late on Monday, the second abduction in weeks of an opposition party member. Tapfumaneyi Masaya was reportedly bundled into a vehicle by unknown …
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) -The junta that seized power in Gabon said on Monday that it aimed to hold elections in August 2025, two years after the military coup that ousted President Ali Bongo. Army officers seized power on Aug. 30 after Gabon’s election centre announced Bongo had won a third term as head of state in …
By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – Madagascar’s president is set to seek re-election on Thursday in the face of weeks of protests by opposition groups who say he is ineligible to run and the vote should be delayed. Andry Rajoelina – a 49-year-old entrepreneur and former DJ – rose to power in a 2009 coup …
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(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 struck the area around the border between South Sudan and Uganda on Monday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 8 km (4.97 miles), EMSC said. (Reporting by Jose Joseph in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s electoral commission on Monday said it was ready to provide fair and credible polls next month despite a spiralling security crisis in the east and concerns about transparency in the run-up to the Dec. 20 general election. Campaigning is scheduled to begin next week after a tense and …
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