TRIPOLI (Reuters) -The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Libya said on Wednesday that only 13 people survived after a vessel carrying 74 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, capsized off the coast of the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk. Dozens remain missing, it said in a post on X. (Reporting by Ahmed Elumami, writing by …
By Nick Mulvenney TOKYO (Reuters) – Kenya’s Faith Cherotich overhauled defending champion Winfred Yavi on an incident-packed last lap to win the women’s 3,000 metres steeplechase gold at the world championships on Wednesday. Still only 21, Cherotich added her first world title to the world bronze she won as a teenager in Budapest two years …
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OSLO (Reuters) – A Norwegian human rights foundation gave its annual prize on Wednesday to the Emergency Response Rooms, a Sudanese network of community groups providing aid, for “their courageous work to preserve the most fundamental human right – the right to life”. Four past laureates of the Rafto prize – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Nigerian troops have killed at least 11 fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province in two separate operations in its northeast, the military said on Tuesday, part of efforts to dismantle insurgent networks in the region. The encounters were on September 15 along the Baga–Cross Kauwa road in Borno State and …
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DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegalese authorities intercepted 112 migrants aboard a long wooden fishing boat known as a pirogue off the coast of Dakar on Tuesday as they attempted to reach Europe via a perilous Atlantic Ocean route, officials said. Abdoul Aziz Gueye, mayor of Dakar’s Ouakam district, said local fishermen alerted authorities to a drifting wooden …
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(Reuters) -Chad’s national assembly has endorsed constitutional revisions that would extend the presidential term from five to seven years and allow the president to serve an unlimited number of times. President Mahamat Idriss Deby seized power in Chad after his father, long-serving President Idriss Deby, was killed as he was visiting troops fighting militias in …
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(Fixes typographical error in headline, please read “she lacks” instead of “he lacks”) By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Monday night sharply criticized the Trump administration for deporting five migrants from Nigeria and Gambia to Ghana, but said she lacked jurisdiction to take up a related lawsuit. In a 16-page …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged a man for dealing two rhinoceros horns worth 8.2 million Kenyan Shillings ($63,000), nine years after he was jailed for ivory smuggling. Feisal Mohamed Ali and his co-accused Mohammed Hassan were arrested in the port city of Mombasa last month. On Tuesday the pair pleaded not guilty …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday that at least 50 people had died after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire off Libya’s coast on Sunday. The IOM said it had provided medical support to 24 survivors. Libya has become a transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya issued an arrest warrant and requested the extradition of a British citizen on Tuesday over the murder of a 21-year-old woman near a UK army training camp more than a dozen years ago, which has strained relations between the countries. Agnes Wanjiru was found in a septic tank at the Lion’s Court …
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