(Reuters) – A group of senior military officers in Gabon announced on national television on Wednesday they had taken power and election results were annulled, just minutes after President Ali Bongo was declared to have won a third term. If successful the coup would represent the eighth since 2020 in West and Central Africa, a …
By Rachel Savage JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Climate change is likely to worsen conflicts in fragile and war-torn states, resulting in higher death rates and greatly reduced GDP, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report on Wednesday. The World Bank each year revises a list of countries classed as “fragile and conflict-afflicted states,” of …
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Loud sounds of gunfire could be heard in the Gabonese capital Libreville in the early hours of Wednesday, a Reuters reporter said, after senior military officers appeared on national television and announced they had seized power. (Reporting by Gerauds Wilfried Obangome; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Kim Coghill)
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – A group of senior Gabonese military officers appeared on television channel Gabon 24 in the early hours of Wednesday and said they had taken power, after the state election body announced President Ali Bongo had won a third term. (Reporting by Gerauds Wilfried Obangome; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – President Ali Bongo has won a third term in the presidential election with 64.27% of the vote, the Gabonese Election Centre (CGE) said on Wednesday, after a delay-plagued general election that the opposition has denounced as fraudulent. Announcing the result in the early hours, CGE head Michel Stephane Bonda said Bongo’s main …
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By Nyasha Chingono and Nelson Banya HARARE (Reuters) -Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Tuesday called for last week’s elections to be re-run, saying the polls were riddled with flaws and calling on other African countries to help mediate in its impasse with the ruling party. But the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) party did not …
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By Nafisa Eltahir and Khalid Abdelaziz (Reuters) -Sudanese military ruler General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met his Egyptian counterpart on Tuesday in his first trip abroad since the April outbreak of war in Sudan, a day after rejecting calls for fresh negotiations. The two discussed President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s offer to mediate the conflict during a …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and militiamen in the Amhara region has killed at least 183 people, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday, providing the most comprehensive independent death toll to date of the month-long conflict. More than 1,000 people have been arrested nationwide, many of them reported to be young …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia pledged at the United Nations on Monday to keep providing “comprehensive assistance” to Mali, where about 1,000 fighters with Russia’s Wagner mercenary group are helping the West African state’s junta fight an Islamist insurgency. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash last week and Russian …
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(Reuters) – Algeria is proposing an initiative to resolve the political crisis in neighbouring Niger with a six-month transition period led by a civilian, Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said on Tuesday. Attaf, who recently toured West African states, said “most of the countries we have talked to are against military intervention to end the crisis”. …
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