FREETOWN (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s main opposition party has named Samura Kamara, the runner-up in the last presidential election, as its candidate for the next vote in June 2023. Kamara narrowly lost to then opposition candidate President Julius Maada Bio in 2018. His All People’s Congress (APC) party elected him to run again in the …
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(This Feb. 15 story has been corrected to say the commission report indicated members of the Amhara ethnic group were targeted in the attack) ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region this month in an attack by a banned rebel group, the state-appointed human rights commission said on …
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(In Jan. 16 story, corrects the government’s description of the assailants in headline and first paragraph) By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Armed assailants kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum on Jan. 12 and 13, the government said on Monday. The mass kidnapping is a first in the …
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PORT LOUIS/ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -Mauritius grounded flights and shut its stock exchange as tropical cyclone Freddy approached the island in the Indian Ocean on Monday, while emergency teams braced for heavy rains, floods and landslides in four regions on Madagascar. The cyclone, packing wind gusts of up to 120 km per hour (75 miles per hour), …
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By Sonia Rolley PARIS (Reuters) – Some opposition candidates in Democratic Republic of Congo have raised the alarm over delays and alleged irregularities in a voter registration drive that they say is being conducted to their disadvantage ahead of a general election in December. Over 50 million Congolese voters are meant to be registered by …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The head of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group accused of widespread human rights abuses, said on Sunday he was committed to intergrating the force into a reformed national armed forces. RSF commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, joined Sudan’s leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in a coup in 2021 that ended …
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By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – France and Burkina Faso have officially marked the end of French military operations in the West African nation, the Burkinabe armed forces said on Sunday, after a flag-lowering ceremony at the French special forces’ camp a day earlier. In January, Burkina Faso gave France one month to withdraw its …
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YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s presidential hopeful Atiku Abubakar on Saturday said he would bring peace and unity to the country and improve its economic fortunes as he made his final campaign stop. Economic hardships, including the highest inflation in nearly two decades, unemployment and shortages of cash, and widespread insecurity from a long-running insurgency …
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By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Temilade Adelaja LAGOS (Reuters) – First-time voter Amanda Iheme has made up her mind on her choice for Nigeria’s next president – and it won’t be a candidate from the two main political parties. Like many younger Nigerians, the 30-year-old clinical psychologist sat out previous elections because she thought the candidates …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The head of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group accused of widespread human rights abuses, said on Sunday he was committed to intergrating the force into a reformed national armed forces. RSF commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, joined Sudan’s leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in a coup in 2021 that ended …
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