NAIROBI (Reuters) – Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International has withdrawn an award it gave Kenya’s outgoing chief prosecutor, it said on Friday, accusing him of dropping high profile corruption cases. The Kenyan chapter of the global watchdog had awarded Noordin Haji its Integrity Award in 2019, saying he had led his office in prosecuting dozens of …
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(Editor’s note: Paragraphs two and three contain offensive comments) DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese women’s groups and dozens of well-known figures on Friday accused opposition leader Ousmane Sonko of insulting a woman who has accused him of rape, saying his comments showed he was unfit for higher office. Sonko, 48, is embroiled in a legal saga …
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By Nafisa Eltahir and Khalid Abdelaziz CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s army called on Friday for reservists and retired soldiers to re-enlist, a move seemingly aimed at expanding its numbers amid a deadly conflict with a rival paramilitary and one that may fuel fighting despite a truce. The army initially said all retired soldiers and able men …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Performers from Ghana, Ethiopia and Tanzania have helped launch a five-year project to try to secure more funding for arts and culture, aiming to persuade African governments to allocate at least 1% of their budgets. The project, called Connect for Culture Africa (CfCA) has been started by the African Union in …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – At a Lagos cultural centre, a rapt audience listened to baritone John Onosolease perform an operatic song in the Yoruba language about a hapless soldier being admonished for his failure to cook a flavoursome dish of beans. It was the latest show staged by the Vesta Orchestra, founded in 2017 by violinist …
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BLANTYRE (Reuters) – Authorities in Malawi have rounded up 920 refugees who had settled in different communities to move them back to a camp in a district bordering the capital Lilongwe, home affairs ministry spokesperson Patrick Botha said on Friday. The operation, which started on May 17, followed a government ultimatum that called for all …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Islamist al Shabaab militants attacked a military base housing Ugandan forces with the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia on Friday, and a Somali army captain said both sides suffered heavy casualties. Al Shabaab has since 2006 has been fighting to topple the Horn of Africa country’s Western-basked government and establish its own …
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By Mai Shams El-Din and Farah Saafan CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian women facing jail for falling into debt face social stigma, and if they have been freed from prison struggle to rebuild their lives, NGO workers say, despite support from civil society groups and some state help in securing early releases. The issue has gained …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. on Thursday said Russian mercenary force Wagner Group may be working through Mali and other countries to hide its efforts to acquire military equipment for use in Ukraine, and accused it of supplying a Sudanese paramilitary with surface-to-air missiles. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement …
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By Jihed Abidellaoui TUNIS (Reuters) – As rains failed, Tunisian farmers watched their crops wither this spring, harvesting early to salvage some as animal feed and piling costs on a state struggling to afford wheat imports with bakeries running out of bread. At his farm just outside Tunis, Hasan Chetoui stood clutching dry sheaves of …
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