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Crowds camp in front of Niger French army base to press for troop departure

8 Sep 2023

NIAMEY (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters have been camping outside a French military base in Niger’s capital Niamey for the past six days to demand the troops’ departure, the latest sign of swelling anti-French sentiment among supporters of a military coup in July. The demonstration started last Saturday, around five weeks after soldiers toppled President …

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World Bank announces $340 million support for Chad over refugees, other crises

8 Sep 2023

DAKAR (Reuters) – The World Bank on Friday announced $340 million in new financing to help Chad address several crises, including $90 million to respond to the influx of refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring Sudan, it said in a statement. The funding comes on top of more than $235 million in ongoing financing to support …

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Suspected drone strike kills five in central Somalia -local leaders

8 Sep 2023

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A suspected drone strike in central Somalia killed five civilians and three al Shabaab militants, two local leaders said on Friday, after the fighters sought refuge in a house compound containing a family. Diverging accounts of the incident emerged, with Somalia’s state broadcaster reporting that a woman and two children were killed …

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Ethiopian soldiers killed two dozen civilians in house-to-house searches, residents say

8 Sep 2023

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopian soldiers killed about two dozen civilians earlier this week in the Amhara region during house-to-house searches after being attacked by militiamen who have been battling federal forces for more than a month, six local residents said. Spokespeople for the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF), the federal government and Prime Minister Abiy …

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Madagascan president’s ex-aide pleads not guilty to bribery in London

8 Sep 2023

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina’s ex-chief of staff on Friday pleaded not guilty in a London court to seeking a bribe from precious stone miner and Faberge owner Gemfields. Romy Andrianarisoa, 46, and her French associate Philippe Tabuteau, 54, are accused of having sought 250,000 Swiss francs ($280,000) and a …

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Sierra Leone hit by power cuts after Turkish power ship switches off supply

8 Sep 2023

By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown has been hit by power cuts after Turkey’s Karpowership switched off the electricity supply due to an unpaid debt of around $40 million, the energy minister said on Friday. Minister Kanja Sesay told Reuters that the outstanding amount “was accrued over time because the government …

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Cameroon militants set cars on fire, shoot passengers in village attack

8 Sep 2023

BUEA, Cameroon (Reuters) – Armed militants stopped cars, shot at passengers and set vehicles on fire during an attack on a village in Anglophone Cameroon’s South West region on Thursday, residents and a Reuters reporter said. Separatists in minority English-speaking parts of Cameroon have been fighting to carve out an independent state called Ambazonia since …

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Explosives found strapped to baby twins as child violence rises in DR Congo – UN

8 Sep 2023

ZURICH (Reuters) – Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo strapped explosive belts around baby twin girls as a booby-trap for security forces – just one incident in a surge in violence against children there, the United Nations said on Friday. The two girls, aged one-year-old, were found in a village in north Kivu, a …

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