ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia’s parliament on Wednesday removed the Tigray region’s main political movement from a list of terrorist organizations, a major step towards establishing an interim local government after a two-year civil war. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which led the northern region into war with the federal government in late 2020, was …
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By Humeyra Pamuk and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is “actively” working on re-establishing a diplomatic presence in Libya, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, although he declined to provide an exact time on when the U.S. embassy can be reopened. Libya has had little peace since the 2011 …
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By Nelson Banya, Nyasha Chingono and Frank Phiri HARARE (Reuters) – Helplessly watching her maize turn yellow as she waited for free fertilizer from the government, Zimbabwean farmer Marian Kanenungo had nothing but makeshift compost from an anthill to help save her crop – and she had low hopes of that. Kanenungo, a smallholder farmer …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – A U.S. couple detained in Uganda since December accused of torturing a 10-year-old boy in their care was granted bail on Wednesday by a court in the capital Kampala. Nicholas Spencer and his wife Mackenzie Leigh Mathias Spencer, both 32 and from South Carolina, were initially charged with aggravated torture and aggravated …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda’s parliament passed a law on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence. More than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already ban same-sex relations. The new law appears to be the first to outlaw merely …
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania has confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg, a high-fatality viral hemorrhagic fever with symptoms broadly similar to those of Ebola, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. The WHO said in a late Tuesday statement that the confirmation of the disease by Tanzania’s national public laboratory followed the death of …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s two main opposition leaders on Tuesday filed petitions seeking to cancel results from last month’s disputed presidential election, court papers showed, to begin what could be a legal battle lasting several months. There have been numerous legal challenges to the outcome of previous Nigerian presidential elections but none has …
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HOUNDE, Burkina Faso (Reuters) – A small group of activists have been walking from Mali’s capital Bamako to Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou to express their support for a federation between the two West African states. The group are due to arrive in Ouagadougou on Tuesday where they will end their march at the Thomas Sankara …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Algeria’s relations with Morocco have reached the point of no return, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. Algeria broke off relations with Morocco in 2021 amid growing tensions over issues that included the dispute over the territory of Western Sahara. (Reporting by Omar Abdel-Razak in Cairo; writing by Angus …
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N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – A court in Chad sentenced more than 400 rebels to life in prison on Tuesday over the death of former president Idriss Deby, who was killed on the frontline of a battle against their group in 2021, their lawyer said. The trial of 465 members of the Libyan-based Front for Change and …
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