By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -A shipment of Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial have arrived in Uganda, where an outbreak has infected 142 people and killed at least 56, health authorities said on Thursday. Last week Uganda said it had discharged its last Ebola patient from hospital, raising hopes …
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(Reuters) – A Reuters report that the Nigerian military ran a secret mass abortion program in its war on Boko Haram is “harrowing” and the United States is seeking more information, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Wednesday. “My reaction to it in the first instance was a personal one in that I read …
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The M23 armed group executed at least 131 villagers in reprisal killings in east Democratic Republic of Congo late last month as part of a campaign of murder, rape, kidnapping and looting, the United Nations said on Thursday. A preliminary investigation by the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) and the Joint Human Rights …
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By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – When Baaba Maal released his last album “The Traveller” in 2016, the Senegalese singer and guitarist wasn’t sure he would put out another record. Six years on, he is back with a new single celebrating the fishermen of his local community in northern Senegal, the first track released from …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is expanding its current visa restriction policy to hold to account military or political actors who undermine or delay the democratic process in Sudan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. The policy will cover “any current or former Sudanese officials or other individuals believed to be responsible …
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GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana is investigating a new spate of elephant deaths in the north of the country, two years after authorities said naturally produced toxins had killed more than 300 elephants. The dead elephants were first found by conservation group Elephants Without Borders (EWB), which counted 57 carcasses by the end of October, mostly …
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JUBA (Reuters) – Violence in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state has killed an unknown number of people and displaced just over 9,000, some of whom are hiding in swamps, United Nations agencies said on Wednesday. Violence is rampant in parts of South Sudan where clashes triggered by local disputes over grazing areas, water, cultivation grounds …
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By Paul Carsten, Reade Levinson, David Lewis and Libby George MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Fati wondered if her life was over. Nigerian soldiers surrounded the Lake Chad island village where Islamist insurgents held her and many other women captive. Shells exploded. Bullets whipped by. As her captors fled, Fati blacked out in terror. …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Janusz Walus, a far-right extremist who assassinated South African anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani nearly thirty years ago, has been released on parole, authorities said on Wednesday. A Polish citizen who emigrated to South Africa in 1981, Walus, 69, was granted parole by the Constitutional Court in late November after serving nearly 30 …
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By Angela Ukomadu and Seun Sanni LAGOS (Reuters) – The faces of 108 Nigerian girls who are still missing eight years after they were kidnapped by Islamist insurgents have been sculpted in clay in a collaboration between an artist, a group of potters and university students. The artwork, titled “Statues Also Breathe” and conceived by …
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