By John Irish, Elizabeth Pineau and Bate Felix PARIS/DAKAR (Reuters) – After armed men killed nine Chinese nationals at a gold mine in Central African Republic in March, a video circulated on the internet saying France had secretly ordered the attack and planned to discredit Russian mercenary group Wagner in the country. In the video, …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) -The Ugandan military have rescued three of the six students who were kidnapped by Islamist fighters when they stormed a school in the west of the country last week and massacred 42 people, mostly young students, the army said on Wednesday. “There were six students kidnapped and three have so far been rescued,” …
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By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) – Armed factions in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland agreed a ceasefire on Wednesday, a local leader said, a day after at least 26 people were killed and 30 injured in clashes over proposed changes to the region’s voting system. Regional forces and fighters loyal to the opposition fought …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticised on Wednesday what he called chronic underfunding of aid across the globe despite growing humanitarian needs. “Chronic underfunding and record levels of humanitarian need are stretching the system to the breaking point,” he told the Humanitarian Affairs Segment of the U.N. Economic and Social Council. Only …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -A train accident in Tunisia has left two people dead and 31 others injured, state radio reported on Wednesday. The accident took place late on Tuesday, when a train on the Tunis-Gabes route derailed, killing the driver and his assistant, Radio Tunisienne said, citing a hospital official. (Reporting by Nayera Abdallah; Editing by …
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By Rachel Savage JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Infant mortality rises and life expectancy falls when sovereign debt defaults are not quickly resolved, a study said on Wednesday, as negotiations to restructure the debts of countries including Zambia, Sri Lanka and Ghana drag on. In countries that have come out of default within three years since 1900, …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Prominent Tunisian journalist Zied Heni was detained late on Tuesday after a judge ordered he be held in custody ahead of his trial on a charge of insulting President Kais Saied. The detention fuels concerns over free speech in Tunisia since Saied seized extra powers in 2021, moving to rule by decree …
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By Nafisa Eltahir, Maggie Michael and Khalid Abdelaziz CAIRO (Reuters) – An increasing number of Sudanese civilians fleeing El Geneina, a city in Darfur hit by repeated militia attacks, have been killed or shot at as they tried to escape by foot to Chad since last week, witnesses said. The violence in El Geneina over …
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By Abdi Sheikh and Abdiqani Hassani MOGADISHU (Reuters) -At least 36 people died on Tuesday in violence across Somalia that involved heavy fighting in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland and bomb explosions in the country’s Lower Shabelle region, witnesses said. In Puntland, heavy fighting broke out early Tuesday in the state capital Garowe as the …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Former Rwandan police officer Fulgence Kayishema, accused of participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has abandoned his application for bail and applied for political asylum in South Africa, prosecuting authorities and his lawyer said on Tuesday. Arrested last month under a false name on a grape farm outside Cape Town, Kayishema …
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