(Reuters) -Comedians in Congo are mining their country’s chronic instability for laughs, entertaining people displaced by the war with the M23 rebels with their dark humour. “Can you imagine Kabila as an emergency room doctor?” one of the comics said, setting up a joke about how former President Joseph Kabila’s slow speaking style would mean …
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MBABANE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration sent another third-country deportation flight to the small African nation of Eswatini on Monday, officials from both countries said, the second in recent months despite objections from lawyers for the migrants. Eswatini’s government said it received 10 third-country deportees, adding to an initial group of five people it …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Tanzania’s police force said it was investigating reports that a former ambassador turned government critic had been kidnapped after his family said he was forcefully taken from his house. Several critics of the government of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who will stand for re-election on October 29, have disappeared since last year, with …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court on Monday convicted the first Janjaweed militia leader put on trial for atrocities committed in Sudan’s Darfur region more than 20 years ago. The court found Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman guilty of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including rape, …
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TUNIS (Reuters) -A Tunisian court released a man on Tuesday who had been sentenced to death just last week for Facebook posts criticising the president, following a wave of public criticism and human rights concerns over the case. Last week’s ruling was unprecedented in Tunisia, where restrictions on free speech have been tightened since President …
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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina named army General Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo as prime minister on Monday, a week after dissolving the government in response to ongoing protests over power and water shortages. Zafisambo replaced Prime Minister Christian Ntsay, who was dismissed as part of the president’s move. The general was the director of the …
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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina named Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo, a military general, as the country’s new prime minister on Monday, a week after dissolving the government in response to ongoing protests fuelled by power outages and water shortages. (Reporting by Lovasoa Rabary; writing by George Obulutsa; editing by Chris Reese)
PARIS (Reuters) -The United Nations’ cultural agency is set to select Egypt’s Khaled El-Enany as its new director general, two diplomatic sources said on Monday. UNESCO’s executive board voted 55 to 2 in favour of El-Enany, a former tourism and antiquities minister, against Édouard Firmin Matoko, 69, of Republic of Congo. The United States did …
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PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa captain Aiden Markram says his side can expect to have a target on their back when they begin a new cycle of the World Test Championship as defending champions. South Africa play a two-test series in Pakistan, starting on Sunday, and two games in India in November as they bid to …
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(Corrects election date in paragraph 9) DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu went on trial for treason on Monday in the capital Dar es Salaam, weeks before the East African country holds an election that his party has been barred from contesting. Lissu, who came second in the last presidential poll in …
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