By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian police on Monday detained two prominent opponents of President Kais Saied and the head of a radio station that has broadcast criticism of the president, part of a wave of arrests targeting politicians and other critics of the government. Police raided the house of Noureddine Bhiri, a senior official …
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By Menna Farouk LA GOULETTE, Tunisia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Tunisian lawmakers take up their seats in the newly elected parliament next month, one change will be immediately obvious – there will be far fewer women among their ranks. Tunisia has been seen as a leader on women’s rights in the Arab world, but …
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(Corrects title of Babatunde Ojo in paragraph seven) By Rachel Savage JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Voters in Nigeria go to the polls on Feb. 25 and international investors are cautiously hopeful that whoever is elected as the next president of Africa’s largest and most populous economy will be more market-friendly than the current government. While there are …
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(Reuters) – Zambia’s finance minister criticised the prolonged nature of the country’s debt restructuring talks, the Financial Times reported on Monday, after a Chinese call for the World Bank and other multilateral lenders to offer debt relief sparked concern about further delays. In an interview with the newspaper, Situmbeko Musokotwane said that “time is of …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Two legislators allied to Uganda’s pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine, the main opponent to President Yoweri Museveni, were granted bail on Monday after spending 17 months in jail on murder charges the opposition says are politically motivated. Both legislators, Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana, are members of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) …
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By Amindeh Blaise Atabong DOUALA/YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Edith Kah Walla was at the front of a crowd of students that welcomed Cameroon’s new president Paul Biya on a tour of the United States in 1984, full of hope that the young leader would bring stability and democracy, and end corruption. Four decades on, Biya, now …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – A move by Uganda’s government to close the United Nations’ local human rights office has drawn strong criticism from opposition leaders and activists, who say it highlights the country’s worsening record on civil liberties. The government told the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) last week that it would not renew …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian presidential contender Peter Obi of the opposition Labour Party said his supporters were on Saturday attacked and injured ahead of a rally in the commercial capital Lagos, a stronghold of the ruling party. Previous elections in Africa’s most populous nation have been fraught with violence between supporters of rival parties and …
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By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) – At least nine people were killed and another 14 wounded on Saturday in a sixth day of fighting in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region, a local government official and medic said, hours after Somaliland called for an unconditional ceasefire. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has not …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police on Sunday arrested two former judges who were dismissed by President Kais Saied last year, a lawyer and local media said, in the second day of a wave of detentions of prominent people, including politicians and a businessman. Bechir Akremi and Tayeb Rached, who were among the …
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