By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A senior Israeli diplomat on Saturday was removed from the African Union’s annual summit in Ethiopia, as a dispute over Israel’s accreditation to the bloc escalated. Images posted online showed AU security personnel confronting the diplomat during the opening ceremony of the summit, before she left the auditorium. …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia expelled the head of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on Saturday after she took part in an anti-government protest organised by the country’s UGTT union, one of Tunisia’s leading political forces. The UGTT said the expulsion was “shocking” and opened up a confrontation with labour unions around …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Ghana winger Christian Atsu has been found dead under the building where he lived in southern Turkey after last week’s huge earthquake, his Turkish agent said on Saturday. Atsu had been missing since the Feb. 6 earthquake following the collapse of an apartment building in Hatay. He was 31. “Atsu’s lifeless body was …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The United Nations will spend $250 million from its emergency fund to tackle “forgotten crises’ around the world, including helping communities that are facing the risk of famine in Africa, its secretary general said on Saturday. “I’m announcing the largest-ever allocation from our United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund,” Antonio Guterres …
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By Tarek Amara SFAX, Tunisia (Reuters) – Thousands of members of Tunisia’s powerful UGTT trade union took to the streets of eight cities on Saturday to protest against President Kais Saied’s policies, accusing him of trying to stifle basic freedoms including union rights. The protests in eight cities marked an escalation in the union’s confrontation …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian police on Friday said some citizens frustrated by cash shortages in the country were attacking banks and vandalising cash-dispensing machines, and warned that they would be treated as armed robbers. The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) said its members would stay away from work in …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended operations in Burkina Faso while it carries out a risk assessment following the killing of two staff members in the West African state on Feb. 8, it said on Friday. MSF said that for an indefinite period it will only respond to life-saving …
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THABAZIMBI, South Africa (Reuters) – Twelve South African cheetahs began a voyage to India on Friday as part of an intergovernmental agreement to reintroduce the big cats to India. They will join eight cheetahs from neighbouring Namibia that were released into the Kuno National Park in central India last year. “The 12 cheetahs… have begun …
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By Ahmed Kingimi and Tim Cocks GUSAU, Nigeria (Reuters) – Bandits spraying villages with bullets, killing residents and setting buildings ablaze. Rampant cattle rustling and clashes between farmers and herders. Mass kidnappings for ransom. These are among the litany of challenges confronting Sa’idu Ahmad, an electoral officer tasked with organising voting for Nigeria’s next president …
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By Giulia Paravicini NAIROBI (Reuters) – Deepening security and food crises are likely to dominate the agenda when heads of state convene in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa this weekend, Feb. 17-19, for the annual African Union (AU) summit. Armed conflict from West Africa’s Sahel to the Horn of Africa in the east and the impacts …
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