By Paul Lorgerie and Sonia Rolley KINSHASA (Reuters) – Congo’s M23 rebel group is ready to withdraw from occupied territory in the east of the country and will support regional peace-making efforts despite not being represented in talks, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The Tutsi-led militia has staged several offenses in east Democratic …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Power services have been restored in Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, for the first time in over a year, state-affiliated Fana Broadcast said on Tuesday. Fana quoted state-run Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) spokesperson Moges Mekonen as saying power was restored after maintenance of a 230 kv high voltage line …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Friends of the Earth asked a London court on Tuesday to rule that the British government’s funding of up to $1.15 billion for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique is incompatible with the Paris Agreement on climate change. UK Export Finance (UKEF) has committed to provide direct …
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JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, who has been in office for over a decade, will run for president in elections due to be held in about two years, his party said on Tuesday. Oil-rich South Sudan secured independence from its northern neighbour Sudan in 2011 but plunged into civil war two years …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria will not allow intimidation to gain votes in next February’s presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday. Nigerians will head to the polls on Feb. 25 to select a successor to Buhari, who cannot run because the constitution does not permit him to serve more than two consecutive terms. Veteran …
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By Tim Cocks and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa is weathering the worst scandal of his presidency thanks to the backing of his party, which is keenly aware its best hope of retaining power at 2024 elections is to keep him as leader. Battered as his reputation may be by the …
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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s Supreme Court set up a panel of five judges on Tuesday to supervise an investigation into the death of a prominent journalist who was shot and killed in Kenya, the court said. Journalist Arshad Sharif, 50, was killed on Oct. 23 while travelling in a vehicle on the outskirts …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somali forces and allied militias have pushed al Shabaab fighters out of a strategic town in central Somalia that the Islamist group has controlled for six years, officials and the African Union (AU) said on Tuesday. The government, backed by AU troops and clan militias, said it has killed around 700 members of …
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By MacDonald Dzirutwe LAGOS (Reuters) – Ruling party presidential candidate Bola Tinubu said on Monday Nigeria’s February election would be a significant step in consolidating democratic gains at a time when some other governments in the region have been ousted by military coups. In a country with a long history of electoral fraud and a …
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By Paul Lorgerie KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s government on Monday said 272 civilians were killed in a massacre in the eastern town of Kishishe last week, raising the death toll from a previous estimate of 50. The government blamed the killings on the M23 rebel group, which has denied responsibility. It also …
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