KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Former Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir said on Tuesday that he took full responsibility for the events in 1989 that brought him to power, speaking at a trial in which he stands charged with leading a military coup. Bashir has been jailed since army officers deposed him during an uprising in April 2019, …
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By Tim Cocks and Kopano Gumbi JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa urged his ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday to improve on the poor delivery of basic services that led to its worst election result in living memory, a day after it re-elected him as its leader. South Africans, especially those in …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Germany has handed over 20 Benin Bronzes from its museums to Nigeria, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday, making it the latest European country to return cultural artefacts to their African homeland. The handovers are the clearest sign yet of growing momentum towards the return of artefacts taken away from …
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By Edward McAllister DAKAR (Reuters) -A parliamentary committee in Gambia said on Tuesday that India-based drug maker Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd was responsible for the deaths of at least 70 children from acute kidney injury and called on the government to pursue legal action. Maiden’s managing director, Naresh Kumar Goyal, did not immediately respond to calls …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Several banks said they had resumed services in government-controlled areas of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region for the first time in over a year, following a November truce in a bloody two-year conflict. Banks have been closed across Tigray since the Ethiopian national army was driven out of the region in June 2021 …
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By David Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis NAIROBI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has requested a review of U.S. security assistance and cooperation programs in Nigeria following Reuters reporting on an illegal abortion program and killing of children carried out by the Nigerian military. Risch, in …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s anti-terrorism judge decided to imprison Ali Laarayedh, a former prime minister and senior official in the Islamist opposition Ennahda party, after hours of investigation into suspicions of sending jihadists to Syria, lawyers said on Monday. “The investigative judge issued a prison decision against former Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh in what is …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Runoffs will be held in most Tunisian regions after only 21 candidates secured victory in the first round of parliamentary elections, the electoral commission said on Monday, following the controversial vote marked by a very low turnout. Only 11.2% of Tunisian voters cast ballots in Saturday’s parliamentary elections, Farouk Bouasker, …
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By Toby Sterling and Ank Kuipers THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday apologised on behalf of the Dutch State for its historical role in slavery, and for consequences that he acknowledged continue into the present day. “Today I apologise,” Rutte said in a nationally televised speech at the Dutch National Archives. “For …
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By Kopano Gumbi, Alexander Winning and Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Monday, overcoming a scandal over cash hidden on his private farm and paving the way for him to run for a second term in 2024. While markets welcomed the …
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