PARIS (Reuters) – France will respect the terms of Burkina Faso’s request to withdraw its forces from the West African country within a month, France’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. On Monday, Burkina Faso said it had decided to end a military accord that allowed French troops to fight insurgents on its territory because the …
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By Nuzulack Dausen DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -Tanzanian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu returned home from years of exile in Belgium to a cheering crowd on Wednesday, after the government lifted a ban on political rallies. A former lawmaker and a fierce critic of the government, Lissu initially left the country to …
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By Andrea Shalal HAMMANSKRAAL, South Africa (Reuters) -The U.S. Treasury Department and South Africa’s National Treasury on Wednesday agreed to form a task force to “follow the money” and step up efforts to halt illegal trade in wildlife, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. Speaking at the Dinokeng Game Reserve outside Pretoria, Yellen told South …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – At least eight people died after a boat crammed with scores of African migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, the local Red Crescent organisation said on Wednesday, adding that nearly 100 others had been rescued. Bodies washed ashore near the Libyan town of Castelverde 40km (25 miles) east of Tripoli after the …
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By Joe Bavier JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africa must fight against a slide towards strongman authoritarianism that has resulted in a series of military coups and a clampdown on civil society in many countries, Sudanese-British billionaire Mo Ibrahim said. Ibrahim’s foundation launched its Index of African Governance (IIAG) on Wednesday, which warned that advances in human …
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By Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean black market currency trader Cuthbert Gudza holds up a $2 dollar note to assess a tear in it, and delicately applies glue to make it whole again. He then leaves it in the sun to dry out, declaring it’s “as good as new”. Well-worn U.S. dollar notes are …
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BLANTYRE (Reuters) – The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Malawi has passed 1,000 while cases have risen to 30,621, the highest on record in the country, Health Minister Khumbize Chiponda said on Wednesday. Most of the deaths occurred in the two main cities of Lilongwe and Blantyre where children have recently gone back …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Unidentified assailants in eastern Mali have abducted a doctor working for the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.N. agency said in a statement on Tuesday. Dr Mahamadou Diawara was taken from his car on Monday in the town of Menaka, located in an eastern region where jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda …
LONDON (Reuters) – Lawyers representing a British Virgin Islands-based company owed $11 billion by Nigeria over a collapsed gas processing project on Tuesday rejected Nigerian allegations that it bribed senior officials to obtain a lucrative contract. Nigeria is trying to overturn an award to Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) of billions of dollars in damages …
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KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwandan forces on Tuesday fired at a fighter jet from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that it said had violated its airspace, prompting the Congolese government to accuse it of an act of war. A video shared widely on Congolese social media showed a projectile shooting towards an airborne military plane, before …
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