TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia will soon reopen its Bardo national museum, the Culture Ministry said on Tuesday, two years after it was closed when President Kais Saied shuttered the parliament, which shares the same building. The ministry did not give a date to reopen the Bardo, located in a historic palace and home to one …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan police have arrested another five people and discovered five more explosives around the capital Kampala in a bombing plot linked to an Islamist rebel group, the force said. Based in the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) pledges allegiance to the militant movement Islamic State …
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By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) -The leader of a coup that ousted Gabon’s President Ali Bongo was sworn in as interim president and cheered by jubilant supporters on Monday in a televised ceremony designed to cast the military as liberators of an oppressed society. In West and Central Africa’s eighth coup in three years, …
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By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – More than 60 people arrested last week in Nigeria in connection with an alleged gay wedding, which is illegal in the country, have been remanded in prison, the police and their lawyer said on Monday. The court granted a remand request from the police following a hearing on …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s state security services on Monday asked university vice-chancellors and heads of tertiary institutions to discourage their students from engaging in acts that can cause unrest, as the country faces widespread strike action over the cost of living. The main labour union, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), which represents millions …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. refugee agency on Monday said it expected over 1.8 million people from Sudan to arrive in five neighbouring countries by the end of the year and appealed for $1 billion to help them amid reports of rising disease and death rates. The estimate for those fleeing violence is …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – A long-awaited Lagos light rail service began operations on Monday as Africa’s most populous city looks to ease its chronic travel congestion. Four decades after the metro system was first mooted, its 13 km first phase – dubbed the Blue Line and built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corp – links the …
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By Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa was on Monday sworn in for a second term after being declared the winner of last month’s disputed election, as he promised to lift millions out of poverty. Zimbabweans went to polls on Aug. 23 to elect a new president, parliamentarians and local council members, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi cannot be sued in Britain over allegations he accepted unlawful payments in the country’s lawsuit against Credit Suisse and others over the $2 billion “tuna bond” scandal, London’s High Court ruled on Monday. The tuna bond or “hidden debt” case has triggered criminal investigations from Maputo to New …
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NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger’s military leaders have reopened the country’s airspace to all commercial flights after closing it on Aug. 6 after they seized power in a coup, a transport ministry spokesperson said on Monday. The closure had forced Air France and other European carriers to suspend some flights and take longer routes across the …
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