TUNIS (Reuters) -The Tunisian coastguard said on Thursday it recovered the bodies of 13 sub-Saharan African migrants and rescued 25 after their boat sank en route for Italy. The tragedy occurred off the city of Sfax, the coastguard said, without saying how far off shore the boat was when it sank. Tunisia is facing an …
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By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt on Thursday embarked on a fresh bid to halt fighting between Sudan’s warring factions and contain the humanitarian crisis it has unleashed, using a summit of neighbouring states to try to revive international efforts to contain the war. The leaders of Sudan’s seven neighbours in a joint statement called …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights office said on Thursday at least 87 people including ethnic Masalits were buried in what it described as a mass grave in Sudan’s West Darfur, saying it had credible information that the Rapid Support Forces were responsible. Ethnically motivated bloodshed has escalated in recent weeks in …
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By Ngouda Dione and Joel Kouam DAKAR (Reuters) – From a concrete jetty on Dakar’s sun-baked coastline, Senegalese photographer Amy Saar clicked the shutter of her vintage Pentax camera, capturing the light of the horizon on colour film purchased from the country’s only developer. “Dakar looks great with certain coloured films, because they …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – A Nigerian man has completed more than 200 hours singing, another managed a 100-hour live video on Instagram, while a masseuse’s bid to massage people for 75 hours ended in exhaustion. The three are among more than a dozen Nigerians aiming to set Guinness World Records in the latest craze to hit …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday discussed the Sudanese crisis, bilateral relations and Ethiopia’s giant dam on the Blue Nile, the Egyptian presidency said. Sisi welcomed Ahmed at the presidential palace in Cairo, the presidency added. Egypt hosts a summit of Sudan’s neighbours on Thursday …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday said it was concerned about reports in Ghana that hundreds of citizens seeking refuge from an insurgency in neighbouring Burkina Faso were being deported. Burkina Faso is one of several West African countries fighting armed groups that took root in north Mali and have …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -Mozambique’s former finance minister, Manuel Chang, was extradited to the United States from South Africa on Wednesday to face charges for his alleged role in a $2 billion debt scandal, the South African justice ministry said. Chang, who has denied wrongdoing, had been detained in South Africa since 2018, when he was …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi received red-carpet welcomes from his counterparts in Kenya and Uganda on Wednesday in launching a three-country tour of Africa that Tehran has touted as a “new beginning” in relations with the continent. Raisi’s trip to Africa, which will also take him to Zimbabwe, is the first by an Iranian …
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DAKAR/MADRID (Reuters) – Authorities in Senegal have disputed reports that 300 people travelling on three migrant boats from Senegal to Spain’s Canary Islands disappeared last week as “unfounded” and said hundreds had been rescued in Moroccan territorial waters. But the migrant aid group that originally reported the missing boats, Walking Borders, said it believed those …
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