CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 22 people were killed and scores injured in an air strike by Sudan’s army on western Omdurman, the Khartoum state health ministry said on Saturday, as the war between the country’s military factions entered its 12th week. While the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) quickly dominated the capital Khartoum and …
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By Ayenat Mersie and Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police on Friday fired tear gas and fought running battles with opposition supporters in major towns around the country protesting against a raft of tax hikes. Opposition leader Raila Odinga called the protests to oppose tax increases imposed at a time when many are already struggling …
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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean police have blocked the launch of the main opposition party’s election campaign set for Sunday in the latest clampdown on the president’s main rival ahead of presidential and parliamentary polls in August, citing problems with the venue. Nelson Chamisa, leader of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has faced several hurdles on …
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By Sisipho Skweyiya and Thando Hlophe JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Thato Qofela first performed ‘pantsula’, a symbol of Black South African culture and resistance to the apartheid regime, in his childhood backyard. Now, he is helping to revive the dance style and take it on to the global stage. The quick-stepping, energetic and syncopated dance originated …
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YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Paris St Germain forward Kylian Mbappe is touring his father’s native Cameroon for the first time this week as doubts swirl over his future at the French club. Excited fans gathered at the airport in the capital Yaounde, where the 24-year-old star touched down on Thursday for a three-day tour of the …
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(Reuters) – The conflict between military factions in Sudan has caused a surge in cases of rape and the abduction of women and girls, some as young as 12, aid agencies and officials said. Teenage girls are being sexually assaulted and raped by armed combatants in “alarming numbers”, Save the Children said in a statement …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia should halt collective expulsions of sub-Saharan African migrants and urgently enable access to humanitarian services for those the government sent to a dangerous area of the Tunisia-Libya border, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. Tunisia has removed hundreds of the migrants to a desolate area along the …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran and Sudan said on Thursday they were planning to restore ties after the Iranian foreign minister met his acting Sudanese counterpart for the first time since diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed seven years ago. Sudan’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the meeting, on the sidelines of a …
DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has no plans to make peace with President Macky Sall and suggested he may try to disrupt next year’s elections if he is not allowed to run, he said in an interview with France 24 television on Thursday. “There will be no elections in this country if …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Essop Pahad, a veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule who spent decades in exile abroad, died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 84 on Thursday after battling cancer, his family said. Pahad was among many activists forced to leave the country by the apartheid regime. Authorities arrested …
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