TUNIS (Reuters) -A Tunisian protest coalition said on Friday it would not stop working to unite the opposition against President Kais Saied despite the arrest of its top leaders, and added that it would hold a demonstration on March 5. Tunisian police have cracked down this month against prominent critics of Saied, including senior figures …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian authorities started moving sensitive voting materials under armed guard to polling units across the country while soldiers patrolled potential hot spot states and land borders were shut ahead of Saturday’s national election. “Internal movements have been restricted to the polling units. There will also be no movement of persons …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, seeking to strengthen Kyiv’s diplomatic efforts following Russia’s invasion, called on Friday for a summit with Latin American leaders and said Ukraine should take steps to build relations with African countries. He told a news conference on the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion that he would like countries …
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BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia’s President Adama Barrow on Friday appointed a former head of civil service, Muhammad B. S. Jallow, to replace the West African country’s late Vice President Badara Alieu Joof, the presidency said in a statement. Joof died of illness in India last month at the age of 65. Jallow, a former teacher, …
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By Manuel Mucari MAPUTO (Reuters) -Mozambicans took shelter on Friday as tropical storm Freddy made landfall in a small coastal town, with heavy rain expected to batter the country’s southern provinces for several days. French weather forecaster Meteo France, which has a cyclone-monitoring station on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, said Freddy hit …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Gunmen have killed at least 12 civilians in an attack on a village in central Mali, two officials said on Friday, the latest reported attack in an area rife with jihadist activity. The West African nation is battling a violent insurgency with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State that took root …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The Tunisian president on Thursday repeated his assertion that an increase of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa was part of a conspiracy to change Tunisia’s demographics and denied criticism by rights groups that his views were racist. President Kais Saied on Tuesday ordered security forces to halt all illegal immigration into Tunisia and …
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TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian police on Thursday arrested Ezzedine Hazgui, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied, but he later said on Facebook that he had been released after his house was searched. Hazgui is the father of another prominent dissident, Jawher Ben Mbarek, whose home was surrounded by police on Wednesday but whose current whereabouts …
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By Kanishka Singh and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday countries like India and South Africa, which have not joined the West in denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, were likely on a trajectory away from alignment with Moscow but that process would not happen “in one fell …
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By Anamasere Igboereteonwu ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) -A Nigerian senatorial candidate from one opposition party and the driver of a campaign minibus belonging to another were killed in a series of coordinated attacks in southeastern Enugu State ahead of an election on Saturday, police said on Thursday. Nigerians are due to elect their next president and …
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