PARIS (Reuters) – Niger has reported the highly contagious H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, among poultry in a village in the south of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday. The outbreak in the south of the Tahoua region killed most of a 4,920-strong flock, with …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – In a street in a poor neighbourhood of Lagos, a bare-chested young man, Gift Eze, holds his screaming partner, helping calm the rage within and stop him fighting. Residents of Oworonshoki have seen their share of violence, with robberies and tit-for-tat gang murders once commonplace in this part of Nigeria’s vast, boisterous …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – At least 16 people were killed and 19 injured on the outskirts of the Sudanese city of Omdurman when the bus they were travelling in collided with a dump truck, police said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Nafisa Eltahir; editing by John Stonestreet)
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The death toll from a gas tanker explosion in Johannesburg on Christmas Eve has climbed to 18, officials said on Tuesday, as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to support people affected by the blast. The explosion tore the roof off the emergency department at the Tambo Memorial hospital, destroyed two houses, …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed and five others injured when a passenger bus triggered a landmine in eastern Burkina Faso on Christmas Day, the government said in a statement on Monday. The bus was travelling from the market town of Fada N’Gourma around 220 km (136 miles) from the capital Ouagadougou, …
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BANJUL (Reuters) – Two Gambian military officers linked to an alleged plot to overthrow the government of President Adama Barrow have been arrested over the weekend, Gambia’s government spokesperson said on Monday. The government said on Dec. 21 that a group of soldiers had been arrested in connection with an attempt to stage a coup …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -A delegation from Ethiopia’s federal government visited the capital of the war-torn Tigray region on Monday, to oversee the implementation of last month’s peace agreement, the government communication service and the region’s ruling party said. It is the first high-level federal delegation to travel to Tigray in two years, the government said. …
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NIAMEY (Reuters) – A Nigerien military helicopter crashed landing at an airport in the capital Niamey on Monday, killing three people on board including an expatriate instructor, the defence ministry said. The helicopter was returning from a routine training flight when it crashed on a military runway, the statement said. The wreckage burst into flames, …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The death toll from a gas tanker that exploded in Johannesburg on Saturday has nearly doubled to fifteen, authorities said, adding that they’d arrested the driver and charged him with culpable homicide. The blast, which tore the roof off the emergency department at the Tambo Memorial hospital, destroyed two houses, several cars and …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – Voter registration kicked off in Democratic Republic of Congo over the weekend, as the country prepares the for December 2023 general election. President Felix Tshisekedi is expected to seek re-election after a first term marked by economic hardship and a resurge of rebel activity in the east. Almost 50 million people across …
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