By Emma Farge and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday narrowly passed a motion to increase monitoring of human rights abuses in Sudan where hundreds of civilians have been killed since a conflict erupted last month. The Western-led motion, which passed with 18 in favour and 15 against, had been …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that the court has issued four new secret arrest warrants for crimes allegedly committed in Libya since 2011. “I can announce today that four warrants were issued by the independent judges of the International Criminal Court,” …
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CONAKRY (Reuters) -Guinea was hit by further anti-government protests on Thursday after organisers said at least seven people had been killed and 32 injured during demonstrations in the capital Conakry and other towns a day earlier. Police in riot gear fired tear gas at protestors who threw rocks and burnt tyres in Conakry on Thursday, …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa denied on Thursday that his government had failed over crippling power cuts, saying already-announced interventions would reduce pressure on the grid. Africa’s most industrialised economy is experiencing the worst electricity outages on record, meaning many households and businesses are without power for more than 10 hours a …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s capital has been devastated by a conflict between the army and paramilitary Rapid Response Forces (RSF) since mid-April. Here is a timeline of major events since fighting began: April 15 – After weeks of tensions building over a plan to hand power to civilians, heavy fighting erupts in Khartoum and clashes …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Britain urged the U.N. Human Rights Council to push for accountability over violence in Sudan at an emergency meeting in Geneva on Thursday but Sudan pushed back, saying the events unfolding there were an “internal affair”. Britain’s minister of state for development and Africa Andrew Mitchell urged the 47-member council to “send …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Aidan Lewis DUBAI (Reuters) – Fighting in Sudan’s capital escalated on Wednesday with fierce clashes and air strikes, but rival military factions were reported to be close to a ceasefire agreement in talks in Saudi Arabia. Residents reported ground battles in several neighbourhoods of Khartoum between the army and the paramilitary …
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CONAKRY (Reuters) -Two people died and many were injured during clashes on Wednesday between riot police and anti-government protesters in Guinea’s capital Conakry, two doctors who worked in a city clinic and a human rights advocate told Reuters. Demonstrators threw stones and burned makeshift barricades on Wednesday, the latest in a string of protests since …
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By Djaffar Sabiti NYAMUKUBI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -The death toll from flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher on Tuesday as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic. The floods, in a remote, mountainous area of South …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s president on Wednesday blamed “criminals” seeking to harm the tourism sector for a synagogue shooting on the island of Djerba that killed six people in the country’s deadliest attack in years. The attacker, a National Guard member, killed a colleague at a naval installation on Tuesday and drove to …
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