By Boureima Balima and Humeyra Pamuk NIAMEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -French journalist Olivier Dubois was hugged by emotional reporters at a briefing in Niger on Monday announcing the release of him and U.S. aid worker Jeffery Woodke who had been held hostage in West Africa for years by Islamist militants. Dubois was kidnapped in Mali in 2021, …
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Unusually heavy rain last week in Ivory Coast’s central cocoa-growing regions will improve bean quality for the April-to-September mid-crop, while more rain is needed elsewhere, farmers said on Monday. Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, is heading into its rainy season from April to mid-November. Farmers across the country said the …
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By Giulia Paravicini NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia’s ongoing record drought killed as many as 43,000 people last year, half of them children under 5, researchers said on Monday in the first attempt to estimate country-wide deaths. After five consecutive failed rainy seasons, half of Somalia’s 17 million people are in urgent need of aid, the …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French journalist Olivier Dubois, who has been held hostage in Mali for nearly two years, has been freed, newspaper Liberation’ director told Reuters on Monday. Dubois, who disappeared in Mali’s northern city of Gao in April 2021, appeared in a video early May 2022, appealing to authorities to do everything they could …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Two employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) kidnapped in Mali earlier this month have been freed unharmed and unconditionally, the organisation said on Monday. “We are relieved to find our colleagues safe and sound. They will be reunited with their families as soon as possible,” Antoine Grand, head …
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By Frank Phiri, Manuel Mucari and Carien du Plessis BLANTYRE/MAPUTO (Reuters) – Days before Cyclone Freddy struck Mozambique on March 11 for the second time, cars with loudhailers moved through the streets of the port town of Quelimane warning residents to move to shelters on higher ground with stocks of food and water. Most people …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s embassy in the Central African Republic has urged its citizens to avoid travelling outside the capital, Bangui, after a report that nine Chinese nationals were killed in an attack by militants at a gold mine outside the city. The embassy said in a statement on Sunday there had been many “vicious” security …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s political factions have agreed to form a new transitional government on April 11, Khalid Omar Yousif, the spokesperson for the signatories to the political settlement, said on Sunday. Sudan’s military leaders who took over in a coup in late 2021 have been negotiating a deal with the civilian political parties previously …
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(Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack that took place in an eastern village in the Democratic Republic of Congo killing 10 people and injuring many others, a telegram account for the group said on Sunday. “This is our first attack in Lubero province and this is expansion for the IS operations” the …
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CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi held talks with high-ranking Russian officials on Sunday to discuss a Russian-built nuclear plant under construction on Egypt’s north coast as well as grains supply and food security, Egypt’s presidency said. The meeting with officials including Russia’s trade minister and a special envoy of President Vladimir Putin …
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