By Andrew Mills DOHA/MOMBASA (Reuters) – Andrew Maganga seized the chance to work as a World Cup security guard in Qatar last year, only to be fired along with some 200 others on the last day of the tournament, jailed for protesting over wages, and deported back to his native Kenya. At home in Mombasa, …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -More than 1 million polio vaccines intended for children have been destroyed as a result of looting in Sudan during the upsurge in violence since April, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF told Reuters on Friday. “A number of cold chain facilities have been looted, damaged and destroyed, including over a million polio vaccines …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -A group of countries is set to request an urgent meeting of the U.N. human rights body on the Sudan crisis next week, a document showed on Friday, in a move that rights activists hope will increase scrutiny of violations by rival military factions. The letter dated May 5 showed …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – At least 176 dead bodies have been found in and around two villages in east Democratic Republic of Congo that were flooded on Thursday, provincial governor Theo Ngwabidje Kasi said on Friday. (Reporting by Sonia Rolley; Writing by Sofia Christensen; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s election tribunal will on Monday start hearing opposition petitions challenging president-elect Bola Tinubu’s victory in the disputed February presidential vote, court records showed on Friday. Tinubu, from the ruling All Progressives Congress party, defeated his closest rivals Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party and Labour Party’s Peter Obi, who alleged …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a doctor were jailed by a London court on Friday for trafficking a street trader from Lagos to Britain to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Ike Ekweremadu had been sentenced to nine years …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday appointed a commission of inquiry into the deaths of more than 100 people believed to have starved themselves to death, while a court ordered that their alleged cult leader remain in prison. Kenyan authorities say the dead were members of the Good News International Church led by Paul …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday called on governments to allow civilians fleeing Sudan into their territory and not to send them back to the conflict-torn country. “We’re advising governments not to return people to Sudan because of the conflict that’s going on there,” Elizabeth Tan, UNHCR’s Director of International Protection, …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan pledged to take Sudan to civilian rule, but after going to war last month with his former partner in a military coup, that looks a distant promise. As his warplanes rain strikes on the capital and his troops battle the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s interim President Ibrahim Traore on Thursday said Russia had become a key strategic ally but denied that Russian mercenaries were supporting Burkinabe forces in their fight against Islamist armed groups. The West African country’s relations with Moscow are in the spotlight after it booted out French troops in February and …
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