TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s powerful UGTT labour union rallied in the capital on Saturday in what appeared to be the biggest protest yet against President Kais Saied, staging a show of strength after his recent crackdown on opponents. Many thousands of protesters filled Habib Bourguiba Avenue, the main street in central Tunis, holding banners that …
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JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked two top security ministers, violating the terms of a peace agreement with opposition party leader First Vice President Riek Machar. Kiir fired the country’s defence minister Angelina Teny, who is also Machar’s wife, and interior minister Mahmoud Solomon in a presidential order read on state …
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KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwandan soldiers shot dead a Congolese soldier who crossed the border and shot at security forces on Friday, triggering a brief exchange of fire between the two sides, Rwanda’s defence ministry said. Already strained relations between the central African neighbours have deteriorated sharply since the M23 rebel group launched a fresh offensive …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Six opposition-led Nigerian states on Friday night withdrew a Supreme Court petition to invalidate the result of last weekend’s presidential vote, which they had argued violated electoral rules, court papers showed. The states, in a court filing signed by their attorneys general, did not give reasons for their decision. Separately, …
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KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwandan soldiers shot dead a Congolese soldier who crossed the border and shot at security forces on Friday, triggering a brief exchange of fire between the two sides, Rwanda’s defence ministry said. Already strained relations between the central African neighbours have deteriorated sharply since the M23 rebel group launched a fresh offensive …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday said he refuses the participation of foreigners in local protests, a day after the authorities prevented foreign trade unionists from joining the powerful UGTT Labor Union gathering expected on Saturday. The UGTT said authorities had told it they would bar from entry a delegation from the …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – Days after Uganda’s parliament ordered an investigation last month into the alleged promotion of homosexuality in schools, a video appeared online identifying Kampala resident Eric Ndawula as gay. Ndawula, 26, said his landlord showed him the video, which was posted by someone whose name he did not recognise. The …
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By Tife Owolabi EMOHUA, Nigeria (Reuters) -An explosion on a Nigerian oil pipeline owned by Shell killed at least 12 people on Friday, authorities at the scene said, while members of the affected community in Emohua said they feared many more had died in the blast. A spokesperson for Shell Petroleum Development (SPD) company of …
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By Benoit Nyemba and Djaffar Al Katanty KINSHASA/GOMA Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Shouting through megaphones, a dozen Congolese anti-French protesters waylaid commuters on a busy road in the capital Kinshasa and passed out leaflets to boost opposition to a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday. Their campaign was part of a …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered the central bank to extend until Dec. 31 the use of old banknotes, whose withdrawal from circulation became an election issue after it caused cash shortages, widespread hardship and anger. The timing left many Nigerians fed up, hungry and exhausted right before a …
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