BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) -Eastern Libyan forces said on Thursday that 10 drums of uranium declared missing by the U.N. nuclear watchdog had been found near the warehouse they were taken from in southern Libya. Khaled Mahjoub, head of a media unit for the Libyan National Army, the main eastern military force, said in a statement …
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By Bate Felix and Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) -Police fired tear gas at stone-hurling protesters in Senegal’s capital on Thursday ahead of a court case involving a prominent opposition politician that has triggered anger among youth. Demonstrators in Dakar burned tyres and set fire to buses and a large supermarket, the latest outbreak of violence …
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By Cooper Inveen SOGAKOPE, Ghana (Reuters) – The West African troops silently pulled their small boats up to a rust-stained ferry and swarmed up its sides on grappling hooks to disarm the mock kidnappers onboard. The drill in Ghana’s Volta river on Saturday was carried out during the first ever maritime exercises organised by the …
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By Frank Phiri and Manuel Mucari BLANTYRE/MAPUTO (Reuters) – Malawian families gathered on Wednesday to remember and bury the victims of Tropical Cyclone Freddy, with President Lazarus Chakwera calling on the international community for support as the toll rose further. Freddy tore through southern Africa for the second time in a month over the weekend …
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon’s transport minister stepped down on Thursday, the presidency said, one week after more than 20 people were killed in a ferry accident that sparked outrage across the West African nation. The presidency’s statement did not say why Brice Paillat handed in his notice. But it followed widespread calls for his resignation …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – The son of Uganda’s aging leader, Yoweri Museveni, has said he intends to stand for the presidency in 2026, the first time the outspoken general has given a timeline for replacing his father, who has ruled the east African country for 37 years. Uganda’s opposition has long accused Museveni of seeking to …
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By Cooper Inveen and Edward McAllister DABOYA, Ghana (Reuters) – U.S. commanders leading annual counter-terrorism exercises in West Africa have urged coastal countries to depend on each other to contain a spreading Islamist insurgency, rather than non-Western powers, after Mali last year hired Russian mercenaries. Relations between Russia and the U.S. have become more hostile …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised Ethiopia on Wednesday for its progress in implementing a peace deal to end the Tigray conflict but stopped short of ushering the country back into a U.S. trade programme. Visiting Ethiopia to repair relations that were strained by the …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors have found that roughly 2.5 tons of natural uranium have gone missing from a Libyan site that is not under government control, the watchdog told member states in a statement on Wednesday seen by Reuters. The finding is the result of an inspection originally planned for …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria will now hold its first census in 17 years in May instead of at the end of March, the information minister said on Wednesday, citing a rescheduling of governorship elections for the delay. The census in Africa’s most populous country will seek to update data on the exact population and the …
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