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Sudan factions agree to 72-hour ceasefire as foreigners are evacuated

25 Apr 2023 25 Apr 2023

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting on Tuesday, while Western, Arab and Asian nations raced to extract their citizens from the country. The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) said the U.S. and Saudi Arabia mediated the truce. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the …

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Egypt’s foreign ministry says embassy staff killed in Khartoum

24 Apr 2023 24 Apr 2023

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Monday that the assistant administrative attache at its embassy in Khartoum has been killed amid fighting between rival military factions in the Sudanese capital. “Muhammad El Gharrawi, was killed as he was driving to the embassy to follow up the procedures of the evacuations of the Egyptians …

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Italy airlifts 96 people to safety out of conflict-torn Sudan

24 Apr 2023 24 Apr 2023

ROME (Reuters) – Two Italian military planes on Monday evacuated 96 people out of Sudan, as Western, Arab and Asian nations rushed to get their citizens out of the African country amid an eruption of violence. The surge in hostilities between the military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group on April 15 has …

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UK forces explore situation in Sudan as thousands of Britons stranded

24 Apr 2023 24 Apr 2023

LONDON (Reuters) – The UK has a military team in Sudan doing reconnaissance, Britain’s armed forces minister James Heappey said, as the government held an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss options to help around 4,000 Britons stuck in the North African country. Countries across the world have been rushing to get their citizens out …

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Death toll in Kenyan starvation cult rises to 73 – police

24 Apr 2023 24 Apr 2023

By Hereward Holland NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police have recovered 73 bodies, mostly from mass graves in a forest in eastern Kenya, thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves, a police officer said on Monday. The death toll, which has repeatedly risen as exhumations …

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Senegal’s Idrissa Seck to run for president after leaving economic council

24 Apr 2023 24 Apr 2023

DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s presidency on Monday announced it had released politician Idrissa Seck from his duties as head of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, paving the way for the former prime minister to run for the presidency in the February election. Seck, 63, placed second in the 2019 presidential race with 21% of …

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Senegal’s Idrissa Seck to run for president after leaving economic council

24 Apr 2023 24 Apr 2023

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LGBTQ Ugandans live in fear as new law looms

24 Apr 2023 24 Apr 2023

KAMPALA (Reuters) – At a shelter for lesbian women in Uganda’s capital Kampala, gone are the days when the residents, having fled abuse and stigma at home, could breathe easy and be themselves. That came to an end a month ago when parliament passed some of the world’s strictest anti-LGBTQ legislation, which would criminalise the …

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Blinken: US looking at how to help Americans in Sudan, resume diplomatic presence

24 Apr 2023 24 Apr 2023

By Humeyra Pamuk and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is looking at how to help U.S. citizens wishing to leave Sudan amid the ongoing violence, while exploring ways to resume a diplomatic presence in the country, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. Speaking at a news conference at the State …

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Tunisia finds 70 drowned migrants, morgues running out of space

24 Apr 2023 24 Apr 2023

TUNIS (Reuters) -Coastguards have pulled the bodies of at least 70 drowned migrants from waters off Tunisia, where morgues are running out of space and authorities are struggling to contain a surge in crossings, officials said on Monday. Another two boats sank on Monday near the coastal city of Sfax, Faouzi Masmoudi, a judicial official …

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