CAIRO (Reuters) – United Arab Emirates president Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed arrived in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Wednesday, the UAE state news agency (WAM) reported. The reason for his visit was not immediately clear. The UAE, alongside Gulf neighbours Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, sent Egypt billions in grants, cash and fuel shipments in the …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – At least 10 people died and more than 30 are still missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Tunisia, officials said on Wednesday. Tunisian cost guard rescued 76 migrants from the same shipwreck, the national guard official Houssem Eddin Jebabli said. Faouzi Masmoudi, a judge from the city …
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BLANTYRE (Reuters) – The death toll from Cyclone Freddy has risen sharply to more than 1,000 people, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera said on Wednesday, as the southern African nation continues to recover from one of the deadliest storms to hit the continent in the last two decades. Cyclone Freddy left a trail of destruction in …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia is suffering from the impact of a climate crisis it has done almost nothing to create, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as a full-blown famine threatens to follow a drought that killed 43,000 people last year. Some 8.3 million Somalis, almost half the population, require urgent humanitarian assistance, …
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By Djaffar Al Katanty KIHISI, Democratic Republic Of Congo (Reuters) – Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people’s camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again. Buregeya fled …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Indonesian Nuni Nuraini Ahyani is in her fourth year studying religion at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, the 1,000-year-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning. During the holy month of Ramadan, which runs until later this month, she likes to try out different communal tables where locals and passersby can break their fasts at sunset …
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SINGAPORE/ABIDJAN (Reuters) -A Singapore-registered oil tanker was boarded by “unidentified persons” about 300 nautical miles (555 km) off Ivory Coast in the Gulf of Guinea, the city-state’s port authority said. The Gulf of Guinea has become a hotspot for global piracy in recent years, although incidents have dwindled since 2021 as national authorities stepped up …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of HIMARS artillery rocket systems and related equipment to Morocco in a deal valued at up to $524 million, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The State Department has also approved the possible sale of Joint Stand Off Weapons and related equipment to Morocco for …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Several people in Ethiopia’s Amhara region were shot on Tuesday during a sixth day of demonstrations against federal government plans to integrate local defence forces into the police and national army, a local official and a hospital worker said. Amhara, the second biggest of Ethiopia’s 11 regions, has been convulsed by days of …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The United Nations expressed concern on Tuesday about a request for a fatwa seeking the assassination of its head in Sudan, as loyalists of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir stepped up opposition to a draft deal for a new civilian government. In a video on social media, a …
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