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Russia’s Prigozhin says Zambian student who died in Ukraine was fighting with Wagner

30 Nov 2022

(Reuters) -Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday said a Zambian student who died in Ukraine had been fighting for his Wagner Private Military Group. Zambia said it stood by a previous statement asking Moscow for an explanation of how Lemekhani Nyirenda, 23, went from serving a prison sentence …

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Killer of South African anti-apartheid leader Hani stabbed in prison

29 Nov 2022

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Janusz Walus, the killer of South African anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani nearly three decades ago, was stabbed in prison and is receiving treatment, authorities said on Tuesday. Walus, 69, a Polish citizen, was granted parole by South Africa’s Constitutional Court last week and was expected to be released imminently. The decision was …

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South Africa central bank flags risks of erratic power, high debt

29 Nov 2022

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s unreliable power supply and its high level of government debt are two of the main risks to its financial stability, the country’s central bank said on Tuesday. Africa’s most developed economy has seen 170 days of rolling blackouts this year due to a maintenance backlog of state utility Eskom’s ageing …

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Three U.S. citizens indicted for funding Cameroon insurgents

29 Nov 2022

DAKAR (Reuters) – Three U.S. citizens of Cameroonian origin have been arrested and charged with raising funds for separatist fighters in the Central African country, the U.S. Justice Department said. Cameroon is a mainly French-speaking country with an English-speaking minority that has long complained of marginalization. In 2017 fighters from the two English-speaking regions began …

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A celebration, then death – Cameroon landslide buries 15 mourners

29 Nov 2022

By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) – A cigarette break made the difference between life and death for Makolo Doss, who stepped aside from a memorial celebration to have a smoke just as a mass of red earth suddenly collapsed on the gathering. Fifteen others at the event, in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde on Sunday, …

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Spanish coastguard rescues three African migrants stowed away on ship’s rudder

29 Nov 2022

MADRID (Reuters) – The Spanish coastguard said it rescued three migrants stowed away on the rudder of a ship that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria. In a photograph distributed on Twitter by the coastguard on Monday, the three stowaways are shown perched on the rudder of the oil and chemical tanker Althini II. …

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UN panel accuses regional South Sudan officials of overseeing gang rapes, beheadings

28 Nov 2022

NAIROBI (Reuters) – South Sudan should investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine, UN rights experts said on Monday in a statement the government dismissed as a fabrication. Investigators say sexual abuse has been used as a weapon by all sides in South Sudan’s …

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