NAIROBI (Reuters) – The death toll from a Kenyan starvation cult crossed 300 on Tuesday after authorities exhumed more bodies in a forest, in one of the worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. Authorities say the dead were members of the Good News International Church, led by Paul Mackenzie, who is accused of ordering his …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A group of U.S. lawmakers is calling for a U.S.-Africa trade summit planned for later this year to be moved from South Africa in response to what they said was the country’s “deepening military relationship” with Russia. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior officials, they …
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By Daphne Psaledakis, Simon Lewis and Nafisa Eltahir WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring factions are not taking advantage of talks initiated by the United States and Saudi Arabia meant to yield a permanent ceasefire as they originally agreed, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday. The United States is consulting with Saudi Arabia and …
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By Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Aditya Kalra and Kanishka Singh NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -India threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the handling of farmer protests, its co-founder Jack Dorsey said, a charge Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government called a “lie”. Dorsey, who quit as CEO …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Nearly 3,800 people died on migration routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa last year, the highest number recorded there since 2017, according to data published on Tuesday by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The United Nations migration agency’s Missing Migrants Project (MMP) recorded 3,789 deaths in 2022 …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia is preparing an alternative proposal to put to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after President Kais Saied rejected the terms of a $1.9 billion loan agreement negotiated last year, a senior government official said. Talks on the bailout have been stalled since October when Tunisia and the IMF reached a preliminary …
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N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Thousands of Sudanese refugees who fled to Chad to escape fighting in their country could be cut off from humanitarian and medical aid during the approaching rainy season, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Monday. More than 100,000 people have fled across the border to Chad since conflict broke out …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Eritrea has rejoined a regional East African bloc it left 16 years ago, its information minister said, in the country’s latest move to rebuild ties with its neighbours. The Asmara government quit the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in Eastern Africa (IGAD) in 2007 to protest Ethiopian troops’ entry into Somalia to force …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Air strikes, artillery and gunfire rocked several areas of Sudan’s capital on Monday as fighting between warring factions intensified for a second day, trapping civilians in a worsening humanitarian crisis. The war between the country’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has raged for almost two months, forcing almost 2 million to …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said he would like to see Tunisia present a revised reform plan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), adding that it is clear Tunisia needs additional assistance. “We very much would welcome the Tunisian government presenting a revised reform plan to the IMF and for …
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