By Garba Muhammad KEBBI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Dozens of gunmen on motorbikes ransacked a village and killed more than 50 people in the latest violence in northwest Nigeria, residents said on Sunday. Gangs have been terrorising areas of the northwest in recent years, forcing thousands to flee and gaining global notoriety through mass kidnappings at …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Ousted Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has died, his former justice minister and an ex-advisor told Reuters on Sunday. He was 76. The cause of death was not yet clear. Keita, known as IBK, ran the West African country from September 2013 to August 2020, a turbulent period that saw a violent …
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By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somalia’s government spokesperson was wounded on Sunday in an explosion at a road junction set off by a suicide bomber in the capital Mogadishu, police and the national news agency said. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, in comments on its Andalus radio station, claimed responsibility …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso on Friday reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, which it said in a statement had been detected across 42 hotspots. (Reporting by Thiam Ndiaga; Writing by Aaron Ross; editing by Diane Craft)
By Tiemoko Diallo and Paul Lorgerie BAMAKO (Reuters) – Thousands of people demonstrated in the Malian capital Bamako on Friday against sanctions imposed by neighbouring countries on the transitional military government for trying to extend its hold on power. People poured into Independence Square, holding up signs saying “Down with ECOWAS” and “Down with France”, …
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The new U.S. envoy to the Horn of Africa, David Satterfield, and Assistant Secretary Molly Phee will visit Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Ethiopia next week, the State Department said on Friday, calling on Addis Ababa to help end conflict in the country. “They will encourage government officials to seize the current …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday expressed alarm at “multiple, deeply disturbing reports” of air strikes in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, saying at least 108 civilians had been killed since the start of January. Liz Throssell, an OHCHR spokesperson, described numerous attacks, including on a private minibus, …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African rand strengthened on Friday, but lost some of its early gains as the dollar regained some ground. Investor sentiment and trading moves have been see-sawing since the beginning of the year amid uncertainty about the size of likely U.S. monetary tightening and the exact timing of it. After less hawkish …
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By Ardee Napolitano and John Irish BREST, France (Reuters) -Sweden will withdraw troops this year from a European special forces mission to the Sahel region and will review its participation in a U.N. force in Mali over the presence of private Russian military contractors, the foreign minister said. Foreign Minister Ann Linde criticized Mali’s military …
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PARIS (Reuters) – A French mechanic in the Dakar rally has died in an accident involving an assistance vehicle and a local truck in Saudi Arabia, the Dakar rally organisers said on Friday. Rally organisers said the driver was French national Quentin Lavalee, who was driving a car belonging to the team PH Sport. His …
