By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi said on Thursday he had won Saturday’s election, called Bola Tinubu’s victory fraudulent and promised to claim the top job through legal means. Tinubu, the ruling party candidate, was declared president-elect of Africa’s most populous nation on Wednesday, having won 37% of the vote. He …
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By Cooper Inveen DABOYA, Ghana (Reuters) – The United States began its annual counter-terrorism training program for African forces in Ghana on Wednesday, aiming to strengthen border defences in the fight against Islamist insurgents who are spreading south into new territories. The program, known as Flintlock, started at a military base in the dusty northern …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – Contaminated cough and paracetamol syrups imported into Gambia almost certainly caused the deaths of 66 children due to acute kidney injury, according to an investigation led by the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Gambian scientists. The links between the children’s deaths and contaminated medicines first …
TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s National Salvation Front opposition coalition said on Thursday it would demonstrate on Sunday despite being denied permission by the authorities, amid a crackdown on high profile critics of the country’s president. Tunisia’s opposition is watching for how the authorities will handle that protest and another called for Saturday by the powerful labour …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – In Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, soldiers give directions to movie-goers and journalists attending the continent’s premier film festival that is going ahead this year despite the violent insurgency gripping many of its regions. Since the biannual Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) was last held in 2021 the West African …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Residents of Hout Bay community, close to South Africa’s tourist capital Cape Town, held a candlelight vigil on Wednesday evening as the search continued for a 22-year-old German who went missing during a hike last month. Five South African suspects, aged between 20 and 25 years, were arrested after being found …
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((This March 1 story has been corrected to change the reference from ceasefire deal to ceasefire process in paragraph 6)) By Paul Lorgerie BUSHAGARA CAMP, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – The United Nations’ top official in Democratic Republic of Congo has sought to rally local support for the agency’s troubled peacekeeping mission to the …
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By Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) – Spain is extending a so-called circular migration programme to its first sub-Saharan African country, bringing in at least 100 people from Senegal to work on its farms during the harvest season, a government source said. The programme, due to start in April, aims to replicate the success of a …
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By Elizabeth Pineau LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Emmanuel Macron landed in Gabon on Wednesday, the first stop of an Africa tour that will also take the French President to Angola, Congo Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo. Macron’s trip, his first to all four countries as President, follows the launch of a new Africa policy and …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Wednesday said he encouraged Nigerian authorities to carefully examine concerns raised by opposition parties over the process of a disputed presidential election. “We note the position of opposition parties on the election outcome and the concerns expressed by observer missions and civil society about the organisation …
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