By El Tayeb Siddig and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Air strikes and artillery rocked Khartoum on Saturday as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival military forces despite a ceasefire, prompting more civilians to flee and renewed warnings of wider instability if the war is not stopped. By Saturday evening, heavy clashes could …
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By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Residents and survivors of a massacre in a Burkina Faso village said on Saturday 136 people including women and infants were killed, blaming the country’s security forces for the April 20 attack. A prosecutor last week launched a probe into the massacre which took place in the northern village …
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MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – Gunmen in Nigeria have released 74 children out of more than 80 people who were abducted earlier this month in northwestern Zamfara state, after ransoms were paid, parents and a village head said on Saturday. Gangs of armed men have attacked hundreds of local communities across northwestern Nigeria in recent years, while …
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates evacuated its citizens, other nationalities and humanitarian cases from Sudan by plane on Saturday, part of the flow of people fleeing a conflict which broke out two weeks ago. Around 128 evacuees, including British and U.S. citizens, landed in the capital Abu Dhabi where they were greeted …
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By Mahamat Ramadane KOUFROUNE CAMP, Chad (Reuters) – As armed militias attacked and pillaged her village near the town of El Geneina in the western Darfur region of Sudan, pregnant 23-year-old Zamzam Adam was stranded, in labour, and alone, as neighbours fled across the border into Chad. The conflict between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary …
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GOMA (Reuters) -The Kenyan commander of a regional force set up to tackle militia violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said he had resigned due to obstruction and threats to his safety, adding to doubts over whether the mission can be effective. In the letter dated Thursday, Major General Jeff Nyagah said he was …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria has postponed a census due to take place next week and a new date will be set by the incoming government, the information ministry said on Saturday as it announced the latest delay to the country’s first census in 17 years. The census had been scheduled for May 3-7, but the …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Strikes by air, tanks and artillery rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and the adjacent city of Bahri on Friday, witnesses said, mocking a 72-hour truce extension announced by the army and a rival paramilitary force. Hundreds have been killed and tens of thousands have fled for their lives in a …
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By Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI (Reuters) – Children account for most of the 109 bodies so far recovered in mass graves linked to a cult in Kenya, the interior minister said on Friday, the latest details in a case that has shocked the country and prompted calls for tighter regulation of religious fringe groups. Followers of …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz, Nafisa Eltahir and Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Alarmed that movements of rival military factions in Sudan could bring bloodshed, a group of mediators pushed for last-ditch talks between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo two weeks ago. But neither of Sudan’s two most powerful men showed …
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