By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) -Residents of the city of Kadugli in southwest Sudan began fleeing the city on Thursday as tensions escalated between the army and a powerful rebel group, threatening to open another area of conflict in the country’s ongoing war, witnesses said. Mobilisation around Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan state, and an …
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By Ayenat Mersie and Mukelwa Hlatshwayo NAIROBI (Reuters) -Mohamed Ali doesn’t believe gay Africans exist. He says homosexuality is a Western invention imposed on the continent. Openly gay Africans are liars seeking visas to the West or money from rights groups, he adds. Ali is a member of Kenya’s parliament. He is desperate to follow …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz PORT SUDAN (Reuters) – Elsafi Mahdi was separated from his wife and three younger children on June 1 near Sudan’s border with Egypt. He does not know when he’ll see them again. Like many families fleeing the war in the capital Khartoum, Mahdi, a prominent music teacher and conductor, left home without …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – A son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been treated in hospital in Lebanon after going on hunger strike two weeks ago in protest at his incarceration without trial since 2015, the Lebanese interior minister said on Thursday. Hannibal Gaddafi has been detained in Lebanon since a prosecutor charged him with …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday he had discussed the war between Russia and Ukraine and an upcoming BRICS summit with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa as they met in Paris. Ramaphosa recently led a delegation of African leaders to Russia and Kyiv seeking to share …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday adjourned Sudan talks because the format was not succeeding in the way they wanted, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee said on Thursday. Saudi Arabia and the U.S. have brokered ceasefires between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Rwanda and international development banks plan to raise an extra 300 million euros ($328.86 million) to help the country adapt to a changing climate, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday. In April, the IMF said it had allowed for a disbursement of $98.6 million of an initial $319 million. It …
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By Elizabeth Pineau and John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – Senegal struck a deal with wealthier countries on Thursday that will see it get an initial 2.5 billion euros ($2.74 billion) in finance to develop renewable energy and speed up its transition to a low-carbon economy. The Senegal Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), backed by France, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron would be an inappropriate guest at the BRICS summit, the RIA news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday, criticising countries whose policies Russia considers hostile. The BRICS group of emerging economies, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is due to …
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By Joe Cash (Reuters) – China’s Premier Li Qiang and dozens of world leaders will meet in Paris on Thursday and Friday to discuss ways to help low-income countries manage their debt burdens and free up funding for climate financing. As the world’s largest bilateral creditor, China is central to talks on making tangible progress …
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