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More bodies found in search for Kenyan forest death cult followers

10 May 2023

SHAKAHOLA FOREST, Kenya (Reuters) -Kenyan investigators exhumed 21 more bodies on Tuesday as they resumed a search for followers of a doomsday cult, who the interior minister described as victims of a “highly organised crime”. Paul Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, is in custody accused of ordering followers to starve their children …

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Senegal opposition leader calls for mass protest after court ruling

10 May 2023

By Diadie Ba and Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on Tuesday rejected a court ruling that could preclude him from running in next year’s election, vowing to pursue his candidacy and calling for a mass protest against President Macky Sall. On Monday, a court extended Sonko’s suspended sentence in a libel …

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Hundreds of sex crime victims treated in Congo displacement camps, MSF says

9 May 2023

By Sonia Rolley KINSHASA (Reuters) – More than 670 women, or 48 new victims per day, have been treated for sexual violence in displacement camps in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the last two weeks, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday. About 600,000 people are sheltering in the camps near Goma, …

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Factbox-How big is the aid crisis caused by the Sudan fighting?

9 May 2023

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Aid workers say fighting between rival military factions in Sudan is pushing poorly-funded humanitarian programmes in the region to a breaking point. Even before the violence began on April 15, millions of people in Sudan and neighbouring countries were dependent on aid due to poverty and conflict. Since then, …

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Sudan deepens crisis in Africa as UN sees 5 million more needing aid

9 May 2023

By Mahamat Ramadane, Joe Bavier and Emma Farge GOUNGOUR, Chad (Reuters) – When a power struggle between Sudan’s rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac’s first instinct was to take her five children and run. But four days after seeking refuge in neighbouring …

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Over 700,000 people internally displaced within Sudan, more than doubling -IOM

9 May 2023

GENEVA (Reuters) – The number of people displaced by violence within Sudan has more than doubled in the past week to over 700,000 people amid ongoing fighting between military factions, an International Organization for Migration spokesperson said on Tuesday. “The number of people internally displaced in Sudan has more than doubled in the last week,” …

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Congo flood survivors mourn lost relatives as death toll rises above 400

9 May 2023

By Crispin Kyala and Ange Kasongo BUSHUSHU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Dead bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country’s deadliest disasters in recent history. Many dazed survivors were mourning multiple family …

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Senegal opposition leader’s presidential bid in doubt after appeal court ruling

8 May 2023

By Ngouda Dione and Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -The presidential bid of a popular Senegalese opposition politician was thrown into doubt on Monday after a court of appeal handed him a heavier suspended sentence in a libel case, triggering a small protest in Dakar that riot police quelled with tear gas. The ruling against Ousmane …

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