NAIROBI (Reuters) – Donors need to provide cash now to save lives and not wait for famine to be declared in parts of East Africa where tens of millions of people are going hungry, the head of the International Rescue Committee said on Tuesday. Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are suffering their worst drought in 40 …
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YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – A Nigerian court has charged 26 men with conspiracy to commit a maritime offence and attempting to illegally deal in crude oil after authorities accused their supertanker of sailing in Nigerian waters without authority. The captain is an Indian national while the crew members are from Poland, India, Sri-Lanka and Pakistan, …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak were starting to succeed and the country has tightened restrictions in the outbreak’s epicentre to further slow the rate of infections, President Yoweri Museveni said on Tuesday. Two districts where the deadly haemorrhagic fever had spread previously were now free of the disease after they …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian journalist said on Tuesday that police had started investigating him over a critical report about on the prime minister, raising fears among journalists and politicians that the authorities are targeting the press freedom and trying to silence free voices. Nizar Bahloul, the chief editor of the online …
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) -Ivory Coast will gradually withdraw its troops and police from a United Nations peacekeeping force in neighbouring Mali, a letter seen by Reuters shows, dealing the latest blow to a mission that several Western nations have pulled out of this year. The withdrawal was confirmed by two senior Ivory Coast security sources. MINUSMA …
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By Tommy Wilkes NAIROBI (Reuters) -Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Tuesday welcomed the first international aid delivery since a truce to end fighting, with the International Committee of the Red Cross driving two medical trucks to the capital of the war-ravaged area. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and Tigrayan forces signed a ceasefire on Nov. …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Two trucks carrying medical supplies arrived in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Tuesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, in what it called the first aid delivery to the region since fighting resumed in August. Ethiopia’s federal government and forces from Tigray signed a ceasefire agreement on Nov. …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Detained Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has told his family he has broken his hunger strike, his sister Sanaa Seif said on Tuesday. “I’ve broken my strike. I’ll explain everything on Thursday,” Abd el-Fattah said in a letter dated on Monday which Seif posted on Twitter. The blogger and activist, who was …
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(Reuters) – South Africa’s struggling state power utility Eskom warned on Tuesday that planned maintenance could cause power outages lasting up to a year. The utility relies on a fleet of ageing, unreliable coal-fired power stations that are often in need of repairs, causing crippling power cuts in Africa’s most industrialised economy. South Africa has …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China will continue to support Senegal’s infrastructure construction, Chinese state media reported. China will also strengthen solidarity and cooperation with Senegal and other African countries and work together to build a China-Africa community with a shared future, Xi told Senegal’s President Macky Sall at …
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