KAMPALA (Reuters) – A court in Uganda on Tuesday quashed a section of a communications law that has been used to prosecute government critics, journalists and writers, including two who fled to exile in Germany, its judgment said. Under Uganda’s Computer Misuse Act, one of the sections proscribes the use of electronic communication to “disturb …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese political parties began talks on Monday to try to reach a final deal to form a civilian government and resolve other outstanding issues more than a year after a military coup. Last month, the parties signed an outline deal with the military to launch a new political transition towards elections, but …
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon’s President Ali Bongo on Monday appointed the country’s first female Prime Minister Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda to the role of vice-president and named a new PM to replace her, his secretary general said. Ossouka Raponda, 59, was appointed in July 2020 after her predecessor stepped down. She was defence minister before …
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By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, NIGERIA (Reuters) – Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles have abducted more than 30 people from a train station in Nigeria’s southern Edo state, the governor’s office said on Sunday. The attack is the latest example of the growing insecurity that has spread to nearly every corner of Africa’s most populous country, …
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By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South African power utility Eskom on Sunday said police were investigating whether an attempt was made to poison its outgoing Chief Executive Officer Andre de Ruyter. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan also told Reuters on Sunday the alleged incident “will be thoroughly investigated” and anyone responsible charged. Without …
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By Pulcherie Adjoha COTONOU (Reuters) -Voters in Benin went to the polls on Sunday for a parliamentary election seen as a test of democracy as opposition parties are back on the ballot after boycotting or being excluded from the most recent presidential and legislative votes. Benin’s image as a bastion of democracy and stability in …
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By Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) – Thirty eight people died and about 80 were wounded in central Senegal after two buses collided in the early hours of Sunday, local officials and President Macky Sall said in statements. The crash, one of the deadliest in the West African country’s recent memory, was on one of the …
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By Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Forty-six Ivorian soldiers recently pardoned by Mali’s junta flew home to Ivory Coast’s Abidjan airport on Saturday after around six months in captivity, state television showed. Their return signals the apparent resolution of a diplomatic standoff between the West African neighbours that also worsened Mali’s already tense relations with …
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NAIROBI – Six journalists in South Sudan have been detained over the circulation of footage showing President Salva Kiir appearing to wet himself at an official event, the national journalists union said on Saturday. The footage from December showed a dark stain spread down the 71-year-old president’s grey trousers as he stood for the national …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A 5.3 magnitude quake hit the provincial northern Moroccan town of Al Hoceima early on Saturday, the state news agency reported. (Reporting by Enas Alashray and Ahmed Tolba; Editing by Mark Potter)
