NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police fired tear gas at a small group of protesters in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday as the opposition took to the streets again in anti-government demonstrations following a one-month pause. Police said they had arrested 46 people “engaging in acts of criminality” and said the protests were unlawful. The Azimio La …
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By Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A conflict in Sudan that erupted on April 15 has killed hundreds of people, driven more than 100,000 to flee across the borders and displaced hundreds of thousands inside the country where many already relied on international aid before fighting began. WHAT TRIGGERED THE VIOLENCE? Tension had been building …
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By Mohamed Noureldin KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s warring military factions agreed to a new and longer seven-day ceasefire from Thursday, neighbour and mediator South Sudan said, even as more air strikes and shooting in the Khartoum capital region undercut their latest supposed truce. Previous ceasefire pledges have ranged from 24 to 72 hours but there …
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By Yazan Kalach and Orhan Qereman CAIRO/QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) – Radwan Hisham Wahba fled Syria in 2012 for Sudan, hoping to build a new life after being shot when his country collapsed into civil war. Now, as violence engulfs his adopted home, he and many other Syrians living there are on the move once more. …
FREETOWN (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s electoral commission on Tuesday approved President Julius Maada Bio’s candidacy for the June general elections in which he will seek a second term. The commission has also approved the main opposition party’s nominee Samura Kamara, the runner-up in the last presidential vote in 2018. Bio will be running after a …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British nationals who want to leave Sudan should go to Port Sudan where final evacuation flights will depart on Wednesday, the British government said. Foreign minister James Cleverly urged Britons to continue to follow the government’s travel advice for Sudan, where military factions are in their third week of fighting each other. …
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(This May 1 story has been refiled to fix a typographical error in paragraph 17) By Maggie Michael ARQEEN, Egypt (Reuters) – Eight months pregnant, Malaz Omar left behind everything to flee with her husband, two toddlers and an elderly aunt from the fighting that has swept across Sudan’s capital for more than two weeks. …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday passed one of the world’s strictest anti-LGBTQ bills mostly unchanged, including provision for long jail terms and the death penalty, after the president requested some parts of the original legislation be toned down. The new bill retains most of the harshest measures of the legislation adopted in March, which …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Western countries on Tuesday raised concerns over Russian private military contractor Wagner Group’s activities in Mali, including allegations of its role in the killings of civilians, at a U.N. human rights meeting in Geneva. The United States, Canada, Great Britain and Ukraine were among countries that raised the alleged …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -More than 100,000 refugees have crossed from Sudan to neighbouring countries to escape the conflict that erupted last month while hundreds of thousands have been displaced within the country, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. “Over 100,000 refugees are estimated to be among those who have now crossed to neighbouring countries, including Sudanese refugees,” …
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