By Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI (Reuters) -Protesters threw stones at police in Kenya’s capital and attackers set fire to an office run by the president’s party in a western town on Thursday during a third wave of demonstrations organised by his opponents. Thousands joined marches called by opposition leader Raila Odinga against high living costs and …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Timipre Sylva has resigned as the country’s minister of state for petroleum to seek a new term as governor of oil-producing Bayelsa State in the southern Niger Delta, ministry and presidency sources told Reuters on Thursday. Sylva’s resignation comes at a time of political transition in Nigeria, with …
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By Carien du Plessis JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Lesotho legislators are debating a motion that proposes reclaiming large parts of South African land that Dutch settlers seized from the small mountain kingdom in a series of territorial wars in the 19th century. Even if the motion passes, its economically and militarily more powerful neighbour South Africa …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Talks in Sudan aimed at reaching a final agreement to name a civilian government next month and launch a new transition towards elections have hit a roadblock over the thorny issue of restructuring the military, political and military sources said. Disagreements surfaced this week over the timeline for integrating the powerful paramilitary …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Dengue fever has spread into Sudan’s capital for the first time on record, as the country tackles its widest ever outbreak of the disease, exacerbated by an under-funded health system, officials say. At least 45 people have died out of at least 2,576 cases recorded since July in 12 of the country’s …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Dengue fever has spread into Sudan’s capital for the first time on record, as the country tackles its widest ever outbreak of the disease, exacerbated by an under-funded health system, officials say. At least 45 people have died out of at least 2,576 cases recorded since July in 12 of the country’s …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican on Thursday formally repudiated the colonial-era “doctrine of discovery”, used centuries ago to justify European conquests of Africa and the Americas, saying “it is not part of Catholic Church teaching”. The Vatican acknowledged in a statement from its culture and human development departments that papal documents from the 15th …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican on Thursday formally repudiated the colonial-era “doctrine of discovery”, used centuries ago to justify European conquests of Africa and the Americas, saying “it is not part of Catholic Church teaching”. The Vatican acknowledged in a statement from its culture and human development departments that papal documents from the 15th …
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By Waakhe Wudu JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed a member of his own party as defence minister, according to a decree read on state media, breaching a peace deal in which the role should be selected by the party of opposition leader Riek Machar. Kiir fired defence minister Angelina Teny, …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Equatorial Guinea has confirmed 13 cases of Marburg disease since the beginning of the epidemic, its health officials said on Wednesday after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged the Central African country’s government to report new cases officially. Marburg virus disease is a viral haemorrhagic fever that can have …
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