By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations officials said on Tuesday that sanctions on Niger were blocking vital humanitarian aid such as food and medicine, saying that requests for exemptions had been submitted to regional bloc ECOWAS. Trucks with food and humanitarian aid have been piling up at Niger’s land borders since a military …
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BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Unidentified militiamen killed at least 13 people in an overnight attack on a gold quarry in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an army spokesperson and a civil society leader said. The attack took place late on Monday at the privately owned Shaba mining quarry in Aru territory, near …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Despite improvements in China, air pollution across the globe continues to pose the greatest external risk to human health, with countries in Asia and Africa suffering most of the impact, new research showed on Tuesday. Around three quarters of the adverse health effects of air pollution is concentrated in just six countries …
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By Patrick Werr CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt hopes its imminent inclusion in the BRICS bloc of developing nations will help ease its shortage of foreign currency and attract new investment, but analysts say it may take time before any benefits appear. The bloc, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, on Thursday invited Egypt …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A group of Egyptian politicians fired rare, pointed critiques at Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and said they were considering challenging him in upcoming elections, depending on the fate of jailed leader Hisham Kassem. The Free Current Movement, or al-Tayar al-Hurr, was formed this summer from a collection of liberal opposition groups …
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BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -At least 14 people were killed in the eastern Congolese province of Ituri on Sunday, after militia attacked worshippers praying in a church, a local official and a civil society leader said on Monday. The Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) group, one of many militias operating …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – A 20-year-old man has become the first Ugandan to be charged with “aggravated homosexuality”, an offence punishable by death under the country’s recently enacted anti-gay law, prosecutors and his lawyer said. Defying pressure from Western governments and rights organisations, Uganda in May enacted one of the world’s harshest laws targeting the LGBT …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa and the U.S. separately on Monday noted observers’ concerns with last week’s presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe and called for peace, after the opposition called the vote a fraud. The elections commission declared incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 80, the winner late on Saturday, but analysts have widely questioned the …
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TRIPOLI/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Libya’s prime minister sacked Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush on Monday in an effort to contain a growing furore over Mangoush’s meeting with her Israeli counterpart last week, which prompted protests overnight in several Libyan cities. Mangoush had said her meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Rome was unplanned and informal, but …
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(Reuters) – Sudan’s military ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Monday dashed hopes of talks to end a months-long war, denouncing the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as “traitors” and promising a decisive victory in a speech to soldiers. Millions have been driven from their homes and a humanitarian crisis has escalated since the conflict …
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