DAKAR (Reuters) – The United Nations on Tuesday said it was concerned about the safety of journalists in Cameroon after a radio presenter was killed last week, days after the murder of another journalist that shook the central African nation. Radio presenter Jean-Jacques Ola Bebe was found dead outside his home in the capital Yaounde …
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By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali’s foreign minister said on Tuesday it had no need to justify working with Russia on strengthening its military capabilities and importing oil and wheat, despite Western concerns. Abdoulaye Diop was speaking as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made his first visit to the West African nation, where militants linked …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – A special Nigerian human rights panel began investigating on Tuesday Reuters reports that the army massacred children and ran a secret abortion programme when fighting Islamist insurgents and said it would refer for prosecution those it considered guilty of rights violations. The Nigerian military has denied the reports and said it would …
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By Libby George (Reuters) – A special panel named by Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission launched an investigation Tuesday into recent Reuters reports on rights abuses by the country’s army. Those familiar with the commission’s past work say it faces stiff challenges. The state-funded NHRC does its best to press officials to act in the …
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By Abraham Achirga ABUJA (Reuters) – A loud whir filled the back of a print shop in Nigeria’s capital Abuja as machines churn out grinning faces of presidential election frontrunners on posters, flyers and food packaging. Workers poured cassava flour into blue and green bags sporting the governing All Progressives Congress party’s acronym and stashed …
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Congo’s government on Monday blamed M23 rebels for an attack on a helicopter that killed a United Nations peacekeeper, as hundreds in the eastern city of Goma demonstrated over spiralling insecurity in the region. Militia violence has racked Democratic Republic of Congo’s vast mineral-rich east for two decades …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The number of rhinos poached for their horns in South Africa decreased slightly in 2022 but more must be done to save them in provincial parks, the environment ministry said on Monday. A total of 448 rhinos were illegally killed countrywide last year, three fewer than in 2021. However, the figures are …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Armed assailants killed at least 22 civilians and three police officers during an attack in northern Burkina Faso on Saturday, the interim government said on Monday. The attack took place on Saturday afternoon in the northern province of Seno, in a section of the West African country that has become a hotbed …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – At least 15 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Senegal were killed when gunmen in Burkina Faso attacked the buses transporting them, Nigeria’s presidency said on Monday. “President Muhammadu Buhari has received the tragic news of the murder,” the State House said in a statement without providing a number of casualties …
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By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Hope of employment more than religious belief is driving people to join fast-growing extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) based on interviews with hundreds of former fighters. While worldwide deaths from terrorism have declined in the last five years, deaths …
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