BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia’s high court on Tuesday sentenced a soldier to 12 years in prison for leading a foiled coup last year against President Adama Barrow’s administration. Eight soldiers were charged with treason and conspiracy in January for their role in a Dec. 21, 2022 coup attempt in the West African nation of 2.5 …
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N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad’s transitional government has agreed to allow an opposition leader who fled the central African country to return after a deadly crackdown on protesters demanding a quicker transition to democratic rule, the Central African regional bloc said in a statement on Tuesday. Succes Masra fled Chad after dozens were killed and hundreds …
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(Reuters) – The General Authority for Crossings and Borders in Gaza said Egyptian authorities told it that 81 Gazans who were severely wounded will be allowed to enter Egypt on Wednesday to complete treatment. (Reporting By Nidal al Mughrabi; Writing by Moaz Abd-Alaziz; Editing by Chris Reese)
By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Five Islamist prisoners convicted of killing two secular politicians and policemen escaped from a Tunisian jail on Tuesday, in a rare security breach for the North African country, prompting the government to dismiss top intelligence officials. Security sources said the men were “very dangerous terrorists”. The interior ministry published …
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s interior minister dismissed on Tuesday the two heads of intelligence services after Islamist prisoners escaped from a prison near the capital, the ministry said in statement. Five Islamist prisoners convicted of killing two secular politicians and policemen escaped from a Tunisian jail on Tuesday, in a rare such security breach for …
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ACCRA (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday said his country and the European Union as a whole were committed to boosting security in West Africa, and could provide training and equipment to support operations against a jihadist insurgency spreading through the region. Speaking in Ghana on the last leg of his third trip …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Fighting in a Libyan hill town has killed eight people since Sunday, a member of the municipal council and another resident said, adding that forces aligned with the Tripoli government had re-established control there on Tuesday. Clashes began in Gharyan, 90km (56 miles) south of Tripoli, during the weekend between a local …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Mali’s northern Tuareg rebels said they had seized a base in Kidal vacated by the United Nations on Tuesday, potentially leading to a showdown in the strategic city where Mali’s army is hoping to wrest back control. The U.N. mission, known as MINUSMA, has until Dec. 31 to pack up after Mali’s …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that he intends to end the participation of Gabon, Niger, Uganda and the Central African Republic in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade program. Biden said he was taking the step because of “gross violations” of internationally recognized human rights by the Central …
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DAKAR/MADRID (Reuters) – Spain has delivered six new multicopter drones to Senegal and plans to reinforce its deployed security personnel to help the West African nation tackle a migration crisis, Spain’s acting Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Monday. Grande-Marlaska is in Senegal where he met his Senegalese counterpart, Sidiki Kaba, as the number of …
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