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Southern African bloc extends Mozambique troop deployment

12 Jan 2022 12 Jan 2022

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Southern African countries agreed at a summit on Wednesday to extend their troop deployment in Mozambique to help the government fight an Islamic State-linked insurgency, a communique said. The countries, linked in the Southern African Development Community, agreed in June to send troops to help Mozambique tackle the insurgency, which is concentrated in …

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Tunisian Ennahda official says party will defy COVID rules for protest

12 Jan 2022 12 Jan 2022

TUNIS (Reuters) – A senior official in Tunisia’s main opposition Ennahda party told Reuters it planned to go ahead with a protest against President Kais Saied on Friday in defiance of a new COVID-19 ban on gatherings. The government said earlier it was re-imposing a night curfew, banning all gatherings for two weeks and discouraging …

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Aviation body accuses France of sanctions violation over Mali flight

12 Jan 2022 12 Jan 2022

DAKAR (Reuters) -Francophone West Africa’s regional aviation authority has accused a French military plane of violating sanctions imposed by West African states against Mali by flying into the country from neighbouring Ivory Coast. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the regional monetary union sanctioned Mali on Sunday after its interim government, installed …

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Car bomb in Somali capital kills eight – ambulance services director

12 Jan 2022 12 Jan 2022

By Feisal Omar and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) -A car bomb exploded on a road leading to the airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, the head of the city’s ambulance services said. Mogadishu resident Mohamed Osman said the shock of the blast hit the walls and roof of …

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Explosion in Somali capital was from car bomb, eight dead – ambulance services director

12 Jan 2022 12 Jan 2022

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The explosion that went off on a street in the Somali capital Mogadishu earlier on Wednesday was from a car bomb and it killed at least eight people, the head of the city’s ambulance services said. “A car bomb targeted a convoy, including bullet proof cars using Avisione street, we do not …

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Botswana’s president ends isolation after asymptomatic COVID-19

12 Jan 2022 12 Jan 2022

GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has left isolation just over a week after testing positive for COVID-19 without symptoms, the government said on Wednesday. “His medical team has assessed his health status and subsequently cleared him because he continues to have no COVID-19 associated symptoms,” government spokesman John-Thomas Dipowe said. New coronavirus infections …

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Botswana’s president ends isolation after asymptomatic COVID-19

12 Jan 2022 12 Jan 2022

GABORONE (Reuters) -Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has left isolation just over a week after testing positive for COVID-19 without symptoms, the government said on Wednesday. “His medical team has assessed his health status and subsequently cleared him because he continues to have no COVID-19 associated symptoms,” government spokesman John-Thomas Dipowe said. New coronavirus infections have …

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Zimbabwe puts New York Times freelancer on trial

12 Jan 2022 12 Jan 2022

HARARE (Reuters) – A freelance reporter working for the New York Times in Zimbabwe will appear in court on Wednesday, his lawyer and the newspaper said, in a case critics say illustrates the authoritarian nature of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. Jeffrey Moyo, a 37-year-old Zimbabwean, spent three weeks in jail last year accused of obtaining …

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Eight soldiers in Burkina Faso arrested for alleged plot

11 Jan 2022 11 Jan 2022

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Eight soldiers in Burkina Faso were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of conspiring against the government, the military prosecutor’s office said. One of the alleged plotters tipped off the authorities on Saturday to an alleged “plan to destabilise the institutions of the republic”, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. An investigation …

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U.N. has not been able to confirm Monday air strike in Ethiopia’s Tigray

11 Jan 2022 11 Jan 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United Nations has not been able to confirm reports of an air strike in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray on Monday that reportedly led to civilian casualties due to lack of communications in the area, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Tuesday. An air strike in Tigray on Monday killed …

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