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By Hugo Boogaerdt PRETORIA (Reuters) -Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya’s major aim is no longer to win medals but to continue her legal battle against World Athletics to overturn requirements that female athletes with differences in sexual development (DSDs) medically reduce their testosterone levels. Semenya, 32, wants to hold World Athletics to account for …

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday said he was declaring Dec. 15 a public holiday to celebrate the country’s Rugby World Cup win. The Springboks claimed a record fourth Rugby World Cup on Saturday with a 12-11 win over old foes New Zealand. Ecstatic South African supporters who had called for a …

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Conflict and escalating violence have uprooted a record 6.9 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly in the east of the country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday. Years of rebel conflict and recurrent natural disasters have helped fuel one of the largest humanitarian crises in the …

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By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Dozens of civilians have been killed this month by drone strikes and house-to-house searches in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where authorities have touted security gains since conflict erupted in July, a state-appointed human rights commission said on Monday. The fighting between state forces and local militiamen, who accuse the …

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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police on Monday blocked a news conference intended to air allegations of human rights and environmental abuses by British troops in the country, hours before King Charles arrives for a four-day state visit. Buckingham Palace has said Charles’ visit will acknowledge “painful aspects of the UK and Kenya’s shared …

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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s main opposition leader Atiku Abubakar said on Monday last week’s Supreme Court decision affirming President Bola Tinubu’s election win would erode trust in elections and called for changes to the electoral laws to improve transparency. The country’s top court rejected a challenge by Atiku and Peter Obi, who came second and …

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By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa on Monday called for the United Nations to deploy a rapid protection force to protect civilians in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza from further bombardment as Israel steps up its retaliation for a deadly attack by militant group Hamas. South Africa has long been an advocate for …

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