By Djaffar Sabiti and Justin Makangara GOMA/KINSHASA (Reuters) – Fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo between the army and M23 rebels has moved close to the key eastern city of Goma, said an army spokesperson on Monday, causing a fresh wave of displacement amid diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict. Clashes picked up again …
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LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia has asked Russia to explain how one of its citizens who had been serving a prison sentence in Moscow ended up on the battlefield in Ukraine, where he was killed, Zambia’s foreign affairs minister said on Monday. Stanley Kakubo said in a statement that Russia had notified Zambia about the death …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Sixteen people were killed in a road accident in Algeria, including 13 Guineans and one Malian, local Ennahar TV reported on Monday. The accident also left three injured in a critical condition, Ennahar TV added. (Reporting by Alaa Swilam; Editing by Gareth Jones)
PARIS (Reuters) – South Africa reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu on a farm in the eastern part of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday, citing a report from local authorities. Some 58 “domestic birds” of a total flock of 200 were found dead of …
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By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African telecoms operator Vodacom Group’s half-year headline earnings fell 9.5% due to start-up losses in Ethiopia and higher finance costs, but it expects core profit to improve in the second half, it said on Monday. Vodacom is part of a consortium led by Kenya’s Safaricom and including Britain’s Vodafone …
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ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has sacked Charles Adu Boahen, the minister of state for finance, the presidency said on Monday after allegations of impropriety were circulated by a well-known Ghanaian investigative journalist. The president fired Adu Boahen after being made aware of allegations levelled against him in an expose, the presidency statement said, …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German federal police have warned their nation’s delegation at the COP27 environmental summit in Egypt that its members may be subject to spying by Egyptian security agents, three people with knowledge of the matter said. In an email sent on Saturday, the police, known in Germany as the BKA, warned delegates of …
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By Rod Nickel, Ayenat Mersie and David Stanway WINNIPEG/NAIROBI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -In America’s dusty Corn Belt this spring, the land was drowning. In China’s Yangtze river basin, it’s bone dry. Farmers in both are fighting a losing battle to save the soil that produces our food. Carolyn Olson figures she did everything she could to protect …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Sunday issued another stern warning to Islamists and other political factions against any interference in the military, amid talks with civilian parties to form a non-partisan government. More than a year after the military took power in a coup, the military and its former civilian …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – An Ebola case has been confirmed in Jinja in eastern Uganda, the country’s health minister said on Sunday, the first time the outbreak has spread to a new region of the country from central Uganda where cases have been confined so far. Authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectious and …
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