KHARTOUM (Reuters) -When journalist Shamael Elnoor left Sudan at the outbreak of war in 2023, Sudanese newspapers were already suffering under an economic crisis and the worldwide shift to digital news. Then the fighting brought presses to an immediate standstill – leaving busy newsrooms in Khartoum empty and ransacked. “Since the first bullet was fired, …
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By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -Tiny Cape Verde Islands kept up top place in their World Cup qualifying group as they won away on Thursday, while Algeria and Tunisia moved closer to qualifying for next year’s finals with victories of their own. But Ghana suffered a setback as they dropped unexpected points after giving …
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(Reuters) -Mali’s transitional government has filed a case against Algeria at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbour of aggression for shooting down a Malian military reconnaissance drone, Mali’s Ministry of Territorial Administration said on Thursday. Mali said Algeria deliberately shot down its drone along their shared desert border during the night of March …
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By Vining Ogu and Ben Ezeamalu DIKWA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Destitute families displaced by conflict in northeastern Nigeria are finding nutrition centres closed or running low on food as a result of a collapse in aid funding from the United States and other Western countries. Africa’s most populous nation has 31 million people facing food shortages, …
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(Amends media identifier, fixes typo in the lead, adds name of militant group in second paragraph) MANGAREDJIPA, Congo (Reuters) -Maman Soki is among a small group of Congolese women undertaking heavy mining work for survival after escaping a deadly attack on her village by Islamic State-aligned rebels that killed her daughter and her sister. In …
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By Camillus Eboh and Ahmed Kingimi ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s air force killed more than 15 Islamist militia fighters in an airstrike on their hideout around the Sambisa forest in the northeastern Borno state, a spokesperson said on Thursday. Nigeria has faced a 16-year Islamist insurgency in the northeast led by Boko Haram and its offshoot …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Nelson Mandela’s grandson has said Palestinians’ lives under Israeli occupation are worse than anything Black South Africans experienced under apartheid, and urged the global community to come to their aid. Mandla Mandela, 51, spoke to Reuters on Wednesday evening at Johannesburg Airport, where he was boarding a flight to Tunisia to join a …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) -A former justice minister in Congo was convicted for embezzling millions of dollars earmarked for a prison construction in the northern city of Kisangani and sentenced to three years forced labour on Tuesday, a court ruled. Supporters of the former minister, Constant Mutamba, have been protesting against the 37-year-old politician’s arrest. Last week, …
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(Reuters) -Qatar, United States, Togo and the African Union Commission participated in the second joint oversight committee meeting for the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the U.S. State Department said in a joint statement released on Wednesday. “Committee members acknowledged slowness in implementation of some elements of the Agreement,” according …
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(Reuters) -At least 60 people have died and dozens were rescued after a boat carrying over 100 passengers capsized in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, local officials said on Wednesday. The vessel departed from Tungan Sule in Malale district on Tuesday morning, heading to Dugga for a condolence visit, when it struck a submerged tree stump …
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