KAMPALA (Reuters) – Gay rights activists on Friday criticised a European Union announcement this week that it would not cut funding to Uganda over a harsh anti-LGBTQ law enacted in May. In a written statement to the European parliament issued on Wednesday, European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen said suspending financial aid to Uganda …
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By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema will visit China from Sunday, China’s foreign ministry announced on Friday, bringing the indebted African country’s long-running struggle to restructure its external debt to its biggest creditor’s door. Around two-thirds of the $6.3 billion debt Zambia is in the process of restructuring with its official creditors …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda has killed more than 560 members of an Islamic State-allied rebel group since launching operations against them in December 2021, President Yoweri Museveni said. The anti-Kampala group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is based in the jungles in the east of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo from where it launches attacks both …
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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon is repositioning some troops and equipment within Niger and will withdraw a small number of non-essential personnel “out of an abundance of caution,” U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday, the first major American military movement in Niger since a coup in July. The officials, who …
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By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon’s ruling junta which seized power in a coup last week appointed a former opposition leader, Raymond Ndong Sima, as prime minister of its transitional government on Thursday. Sima, a 68-year-old economist, was an outspoken critic of President Ali Bongo, who was ousted by military officers on Aug. …
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(This Aug. 25 story has been corrected to fix Kathleen FitzGibbon’s name in the story) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Niger’s Foreign Ministry has told the U.S. government that images of letters circulating online calling for the departure of certain American diplomatic personnel were not issued by the ministry, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said. “No such …
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(This Aug. 19 story has been corrected to fix Kathleen FitzGibbon’s name in the story) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kathleen FitzGibbon, the new U.S. Ambassador to Niger, has arrived in the capital, Niamey, but will not formally present her credentials due to the “current political crisis,” the U.S. State Department announced on Saturday. FitzGibbon’s arrival in …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s main opposition candidates will appeal a tribunal ruling that affirmed Bola Tinubu’s victory in a disputed presidential election in February that they claim was marred by irregularities, their lawyers said. Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party and Labour Party’s Peter Obi, who came second and third respectively, had …
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By Michelle Nichols N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad’s interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby spoke with the U.S. envoy to the United Nations about challenges to holding an election, the envoy said on Thursday, more than two years after bypassing the central African country’s constitution to install himself as leader. Military leaders in Chad originally promised an …
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By Clauda Tanios and Michelle Nichols DUBAI/N’DJAMENA (Reuters) -The deputy leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Thursday that U.S. sanctions imposed on him over human rights abuses were unfair and declared that the RSF has seized enough army weapons to last 20 years. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda …
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