RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco will impose a ban on people arriving from China, whatever their nationality, from Jan. 3 to avert any new wave of coronavirus infections, the foreign ministry said on Saturday. Several countries have imposed restrictions on travellers from China due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. Thousands of tourists visit Morocco from …
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(Reuters) – A landslide crushed at least eight people and seriously injured nine others near an artisanal mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, a local official told Reuters on Saturday. The wounded are in a critical condition and receiving treatment at a local health facility, the administrator of Fizi territory in South …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Two gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on an Egyptian security checkpoint on Friday, killing two policemen and a citizen in a city east of Cairo, according to sources from the interior ministry and the city’s security directorate. Two other policemen were wounded at the checkpoint in the city of Ismailia. One of …
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian President Kais Saied extended the state of emergency until Jan. 30, 2023, the official gazette said on Friday. (Reporting by Tarek Amara; Editing by Chris Reese)
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali has sentenced 46 soldiers from Ivory Coast to 20 years imprisonment for conspiring against the government, and three more to death in absentia, a court judgment from the West African country said on Friday. (Reporting by Ange Aboa and Tiekmoko Diallo; Writing by Hereward Holland and Cooper Inveen; Editing by Leslie …
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By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Eritrean soldiers, who fought in support of Ethiopia’s federal government during its two-year civil war in the northern Tigray region, are pulling out of two major towns and headed toward the border, witnesses and an Ethiopian official told Reuters. The withdrawals from Shire and Axum follow a Nov. 2 …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The death toll from a gas tanker explosion in Johannesburg on Christmas Eve has increased to 34 from an earlier estimate of 27, the provincial health department said on Friday. The blast tore the roof off the emergency department at the Tambo Memorial hospital in the city’s Boksburg suburb on Saturday, while …
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By Esa Alexander CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – When Tapiwa Guzha first started making ice creams 12 years ago, he never imagined he would one day be whisking pumpkin puree and milk together to make an African flavoured ice cream at a cafe in Cape Town. Hailing from Zimbabwe, 36-year-old Guzha says he wants to educate …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Mediators between Ethiopia’s federal government and authorities in the Tigray region, embroiled until last month in a brutal war, are stepping up efforts to enforce a truce as relations between the two sides inch closer toward normality. The Nov. 2 ceasefire quieted a two-year conflict that killed tens of thousands and displaced …
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ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi, who owns a media group and has been a vocal critic of the government, has been placed in a pre-trial detention, accused of receiving foreign funding, his lawyers said on Thursday after he was arrested on Dec. 24. Reporters Without Borders, the international media freedom group, condemned …
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