NIAMEY (Reuters) – At least 10 Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush, and more than a dozen others were injured by armed assailants near the West African Sahel nation’s border with neighbouring Mali, Niger’s defence minister said in a statement on Saturday. Around 16 people are missing following the attack on Friday evening in …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian police detained politicians and a prominent, politically connected businessman on Saturday, their lawyers said, in a case that local media said was based on suspicion of conspiracy against state security. A spokesperson for the Interior Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the arrests of …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Like many people in Kenya, Sperenza Maina went into denial when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, hiding it from her family for months and delaying important treatment. But the most painful part of the librarian’s cancer journey has been the crippling financial burden, with each round of chemotherapy costing 35,000 …
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By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) – The administration of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland said late on Friday it had agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, following five days of clashes in the east of the territory that health workers say have killed dozens of people. Heavy fighting broke out between Somaliland forces and militiamen …
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By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) – At least five banana plantation workers were killed and several wounded on Friday in Cameroon’s Southwest region that is riven by separatist violence, a union leader said. The unidentified assailants shot at a truck carrying employees of Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) – the country’s largest state-owned agro-industrial firm …
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By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Equatorial Guinea has quarantined more than 200 people and restricted movement after an unknown illness causing hemorrhagic fever killed at least eight people, Health Minister Mitoha Ondo’o Ayekaba said on Friday as the government races to test samples. The outbreak was reported on Feb. 7, and from preliminary …
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(Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday the West’s efforts to “isolate” his country had completely failed and Moscow was building stronger relations with countries in Africa, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific and elsewhere. “Today we can affirm that the West’s plans to isolate Russia by surrounding us with a sanitary cordon …
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By Carien du Plessis and Kopano Gumbi JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a state of disaster on Thursday to fight a paralyzing power crisis that in recent months has included daily rolling power cuts. What does this mean and how might it resolve a crisis that has been years in the …
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By Djaffar Al Katanty SAKE, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -A town just west of the major east Congo city of Goma appeared under army control on Thursday hours after hundreds of residents fled an outbreak of gunfire for fear of an advance by M23 rebels, according to a Reuters reporter in the area. Hundreds …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Sixteen security forces were killed in an ambush in Burkina Faso’s insurgent-hit north on Wednesday, three security sources said on Friday. The attack took place near the village of Koumestenga in Namentenga province in the Centre-North region, one of several areas plagued with jihadist activity. One army source and two sources in …
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