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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A coup in Niger could have a “negative impact” on the United Nations withdrawing its decade-long peacekeeping operation in neighboring Mali, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday. The U.N. Security Council last month ended the mission in Mali after the West African country’s military junta abruptly asked the 13,000-strong force …

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BANGUI (Reuters) – Central African Republic’s opposition is calling for a boycott of a constitutional referendum on Sunday that could see President Faustin-Archange Touadera extend his time in office. Touadera was first elected in 2016 and won reelection in 2020. He has been campaigning for the constitutional referendum which, if passed, would remove a two-term …

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Russia has granted debt relief on over $684 million owed by Somalia in a deal finalised on the sidelines of a Russia-Africa summit in St Petersburg, officials from the Horn of Africa nation said. Emerging from decades of civil war, Somalia is seeking to secure sweeping external debt relief under the International …

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Egypt summoned Denmark’s ambassador on Thursday over recent Koran burning incidents, the foreign ministry said. Five anti-Islam activists set fire to a Koran in front of the Egyptian embassy in Copenhagen on Tuesday, the third such incident in Denmark in less than a week, following Koran burnings in nearby Sweden that enraged …

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(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told the president of the African Union during a meeting shown on state television that Russia was counting on the African Union obtaining full membership of the Group of 20 nations, comprising most of the world’s largest economies, in September. (Reporting by Felix Light; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called for the immediate release of Niger President Mohamed Bazoum. Bazoum has been removed from power, according to a group of soldiers who appeared on the West African nation’s national television late on Wednesday, hours after the president was held in the presidential palace. …

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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -The Tunisian coast guard recovered 901 bodies of drowned migrants off its coast from Jan. 1 to July 20 this year, the country’s interior minister, Kamel Feki, said on Wednesday, marking an unprecedented number of victims off the country’s coasts. The North Africa country is facing a record wave of …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – A concert by U.S. rapper Travis Scott at the pyramids in Egypt has been cancelled, organiser Live Nation Middle East said on Wednesday, citing production issues. “Complex production issues meant that the show could not be constructed in the desert,” Live Nation said in a statement on social media. The Friday concert, …

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