TUNIS (Reuters) – France will offer Tunisia 25.8 million euros to help it stop boats carrying migrants across the Mediterranean, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said during a visit to Tunis on Monday. The money will pay for equipment and training and comes in addition to a 105 million euros European Union package that the …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – A man fatally stabbed a policeman on duty outside the Brazilian embassy in Tunis on Monday before police shot the attacker in the leg and arrested him, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry official said the attacker, 53, was mentally ill and the stabbing was not being treated as terrorism. The policeman …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he was concerned by the ethnic dimension to violence in Sudan’s West Darfur, warning targeted attacks against civilians based on ethnic identities “could amount to crimes against humanity.” “I am particularly concerned by reports of gender-based and sexual violence, and by the ethnic dimension …
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By Edward McAllister and David Lewis DAKAR/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Mali’s unexpected demand for the departure of U.N. peacekeepers may herald a sudden end to a decade-long mission that has struggled to protect civilians and its own troops, raising fears the country could slide deeper into chaos amid an Islamist insurgency and the possible revival of …
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By Tiemoko Diallo and Fadimata Kontao BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali started counting votes on Sunday from a constitutional referendum that the ruling military junta and regional powers have said will pave the way to elections and a return to civilian rule. The junta, which seized power in coups in 2020 and 2021, promised to hold the …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – The start of a 72-hour ceasefire aimed at calming more than two months of conflict between rival Sudanese military factions brought a lull in clashes in Khartoum early on Sunday following battles and air strikes overnight, residents said. Sudan’s army and the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have agreed …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to Islamic State killed at least 37 secondary school students. Members of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed the students late on Friday at Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe, …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany said on Sunday a request by Mali’s military junta for the United Nations peacekeeping force to leave the country “without delay” is politically motivated and Berlin still aims for an orderly withdrawal of its troops by May 2024. Mali’s interim military authorities made the request on Friday, citing a “crisis of …
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(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday gave African leaders seeking to mediate in the war in Ukraine a list of reasons why he believed many of their proposals were misguided, pouring cold water on a plan already largely dismissed by Kyiv. The African leaders were seeking agreement on a series of “confidence building …
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(This June 15 story has been corrected to say 7,000 tonnes, not 860 kg, in paragraph 5) By Giulia Paravicini NAIROBI (Reuters) – Regional and federal government officials as well as Eritrean soldiers were involved in the theft of food aid in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the head of an investigation by the Tigrayan authorities …
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