BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -At least 23 people were killed when Islamist militants raided a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo late on Sunday, a local official and a humanitarian worker said. The attackers tied up villagers and killed them with machetes and other weapons while others fled, said a civil society …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Rebels from Ethiopia’s Oromiya region said on Monday they were in Tanzania for a second round of talks with the Ethiopian government to try to end decades of fighting. The negotiations come more than six months after a first round of discussions between the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and Ethiopia’s government …
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DAKAR (Reuters) -At least 70 civilians have been killed, mainly elderly people and children, in an attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso earlier this month, a prosecutor said in a statement on Monday. Unidentified assailants attacked the village of Zaongo in Burkina Faso’s northern Centre-North region on Nov. 5, killing residents and setting …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – A commander in an Islamic State-allied rebel group was charged on Monday with nine offences including the murder of a honeymooning tourist couple and their aide in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, court papers showed. Kyoto Abdul Rashid, of the militant Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), was captured earlier this month in a …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) -Negotiators working on the world’s first treaty to curb plastic pollution need to hurry up and strike a deal, Kenyan President William Ruto said on Monday at the start of talks in Nairobi. The world produces about 400 million metric tonnes of plastic waste annually and less than 10% of …
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(Reuters) -The European Union (EU) condemned on Sunday an escalation of violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, warning of the danger of “another genocide” after conflict there between 2003-2008 killed some 300,000 people and displaced more than 2 million. A war since April between Sudan’s regular army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary has destabilised the …
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Violence against civilians in Sudan is “verging on pure evil,” a senior United Nations official warned on Friday, as a humanitarian crisis in the country worsens and ethnic violence escalates in the western region of Darfur. A war erupted on April 15 between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Evacuations from the Gaza Strip into Egypt for foreign passport holders and for Palestinians needing urgent medical treatment were suspended on Friday, three Egyptian security sources and a Palestinian official said. The Palestinian official and an Egyptian medical source said the suspension was due to problems bringing medical evacuees to the Rafah border …
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RIYADH (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia’s crown prince on Friday called for an end to the war in Gaza, a stance later echoed in a declaration with African leaders attending a summit in Riyadh. “We condemn what the Gaza Strip is facing from military assault, targeting of civilians, the violations of international law by the Israeli occupation …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The United Nations has described floods that uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighbouring countries in East Africa following a historic drought as a once-in-a-century event. Around 1.6 million people in Somalia could be affected by the heavy seasonal downpours, which have been worsened by the combined impact of …
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