By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Kenyan court sentenced three police officers and their civilian informant to decades in prison on Friday for the 2016 murder of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others. The case triggered outrage in Kenya, where police face frequent allegations of brutality and extrajudicial killings but are almost never …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The appeal hearings of a former Liberian rebel commander convicted of war crimes concluded on Friday in a trial that was broadened in its final stages to include crimes against humanity for the first time in Switzerland. Alieu Kosiah, who fought in the 1990s against then-President Charles Taylor’s army, was …
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By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA (Reuters) -Twenty-seven people have been killed in South Sudan in tit-for-tat violence involving cattle herders and militia fighters, a regional government official said, as the country prepares to welcome Pope Francis. The pope is set to arrive in South Sudan on Friday from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, hoping to …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Israel and Sudan have finalised a deal to normalise relations with a signing ceremony expected following a transfer of power from the military to a civilian government in Khartoum, the Israeli foreign ministry said on Thursday. The announcement came after Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said it was agreed during a visit by Israeli …
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By Aaron Ross (Reuters) – Among the more ambitious hopes for Pope Francis’ visit to South Sudan this week is that it will give a jolt to a peace process aimed at ending a decade of conflict that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Government forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and opposition forces …
(Reuters) – The Russian ambassador to the Central African Republic said in an interview published on Friday that 1,890 “Russian instructors” were present in the country, a focus of operations for the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group mercenary outfit. Russian state-owned news agency RIA quoted ambassador Alexander Bikantov as saying: “Today, there are 1,890 Russian instructors in …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa-listed gold miner Gold Fields on Thursday said it is disputing tax payments demanded by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) after an audit and is working with the tax authority to resolve the matter. Gold Fields, which has three gold-mining operations in Ghana, said it could not disclose the size of …
KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Israel and Sudan have finalised a deal to normalise relations, with a signing ceremony expected following a transfer of power from the military to a civilian government in Khartoum, the Israeli foreign ministry said on Thursday. Sudan’s foreign ministry earlier said the deal was agreed during a visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Eli …
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By Philip Pullella and Paul Lorgerie KINSHASA (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Thursday urged young people in Democratic Republic of Congo to forge a new future without the ethnic rivalry, corruption and distrust that have fuelled so many bloody conflicts in Africa. Addressing more than 65,000 young people in Martyrs Stadium, Francis spoke of forgiveness and …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall said on Thursday that financing is in place to enable construction to begin in earnest on a $1.13 billion deep-water port being developed by Dubai’s state-owned port operator DP World. The project in Ndayane, around 50 km (31 miles) south of the capital Dakar, is the biggest private …
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