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By Duncan Miriri and George Obulutsa MALINDI, Kenya (Reuters) -A Kenyan televangelist was arrested on Thursday after reports of the “mass killing of his followers”, the interior minister said, as authorities investigated scores of other deaths linked to a religious cult from the same region. As news of pastor Ezekiel Odero’s detention spread, officials said …

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By Yiannis Kourtoglou and Michele Kambas LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) – Britain had evacuated around 900 of its citizens from Sudan through Cyprus as of early afternoon Thursday and urged those remaining in the conflict-riven country to grasp an opportunity to leave during the final hours of a cease fire. Hundreds of people have been killed …

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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Police in Uganda detained 11 female members of parliament on Thursday who they accused of staging of an unlawful protest, with some of the lawmakers sustaining injuries during their arrest. The lawmakers were detained just outside the parliament buildings in the capital Kampala as they prepared to march to the Ministry of …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France has evacuated more people from Sudan, the French foreign ministry said on Thursday, adding that those evacuated included not only French nationals but also Britons, Americans, Canadians, Ethiopians, Dutch, Italians and Swedes. The French government added it had so far evacuated a total of 936 people from Sudan. (Reporting by Sudip …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain may not be able to continue evacuating its nationals in Sudan when a ceasefire ends – something due to happen later on Thursday – and they should try to reach British flights out of the country immediately, foreign minister James Cleverly said. “Now is the time to move because when the …

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By Paul Lorgerie DRODRO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – One month since rebels closed in on Drodro village in eastern Congo, the once bustling wards of its hospital are empty and Doctor James Semire strolls the darkened corridors wondering when patients will dare to return. The community is one of many in Ituri province’s …

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By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – The drought that has left some 4.35 million people in the Horn of Africa in dire need of humanitarian aid – with 43,000 in Somalia estimated to have died last year – would not have been possible without climate change, according to an analysis released Thursday. Ethiopia, Kenya and …

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