By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped five female students from a university in the northwestern Katsina state on Wednesday, the police said, the second such abduction involving students in the region within a month. Kidnapping for ransom by armed gangs is rife in northwest Nigeria due to high levels of poverty, …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s public prosecutor detained Abir Moussi, a prominent opponent of President Kais Saied, after she was arrested at the entrance to the presidential palace on Tuesday, lawyers said, the latest arrest targeting Saied’s political rivals. “Moussi was detained for 48 hours in charges of processing personal data, obstructing the right …
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By Tife Owolabi RIVERS STATE, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 37 people, including two pregnant women, were burned to death after a blast at an illegal oil refinery in southern Nigeria, a local security official and community leader said on Tuesday. Illegal refining is common in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria as impoverished …
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By Edward McAllister DAKAR (Reuters) – Islamist militants in Mali began a blockade of Timbuktu by cutting road access in August and then shut off river and air routes in an offensive that has put the city once again on the frontline of a jihadist insurgency. The bombing began soon after. On Sept. 21, witnesses …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The European Union on Tuesday pledged a $680 million aid package for Ethiopia that was delayed due to a 2020-2022 civil war in its northern Tigray region. Thousands died and millions were displaced in a two-year conflict between the government and regional forces from Tigray. The conflict formally ended last November. …
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By Ayman al-Warfali DERNA, Libya (Reuters) – Since a huge flood swept away whole neighbourhoods of Libya’s city of Derna last month, Abdulsalam al-Kadi has been searching for his father and brother. He doesn’t expect to find them alive but he wants to bury them so he has a grave to mourn over. With friends, …
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ACCRA (Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets of Ghana’s capital Accra on Tuesday demanding the central bank governor be removed for what they say is the mismanagement of the economy during the worst debt crisis in a generation. The demonstrations are the latest show of frustration with rising living costs, joblessness and hardship in …
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By Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union ambassadors agreed a framework of sanctions that will be used to target key actors in Sudan’s war and impose asset freezes and travel bans, sources familiar with the matter said. War broke out in Sudan in April this year between the army, led by General Abdel Fattah …
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By Djaffar Al Katanty and Arlette Bashizi GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – The smell of decomposing bodies filled the air as cemetery workers in eastern Congo unloaded dozens of coffins at the final resting place for victims of one of the deadliest crackdowns on protests in recent local memory. As rain poured down …
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VALLETTA (Reuters) – A supporter of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi who was involved in the hijacking of an aircraft to Malta in 2016 has been jailed for 10 years by a Maltese court after he pleaded guilty. Ali Ahmed Lano Saleh was one of two men who hijacked an Afriqiyah Airlines Airbus A320 to …
