BAMAKO (Reuters) – Russian soldiers have deployed to the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali to train Malian forces at a base vacated by French troops last month, Mali’s army spokesperson said on Thursday. Mali’s government said last month that “Russian trainers” had arrived in the country, but Bamako and Moscow have so far provided …
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By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Armed men kidnapped three Chinese nationals and killed two local staff working on a power project in Nigeria’s central state of Niger, police said on Thursday. The gunmen – thought to be members of gangs who have spread havoc and carried out mass kidnappings – struck on Tuesday, …
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By Nafisa Eltahir and Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The resignation of Sudan’s prime minister puts the military firmly back in control of the country but facing a population angry that its hopes for democratic rule have been set back yet again. Unless a new course towards a transition and credible elections can be charted, …
By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Africa’s top public health official said on Thursday that severe lockdowns were no longer the best way to contain COVID-19, praising South Africa for adopting that approach when responding to its latest infection wave driven by the Omicron variant. “We are very encouraged with what we saw in South Africa …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese lawmakers on Tuesday stopped from passing to parliamentary vote a draft bill that sought to toughen already severe laws against same-sex relations. Gay sex is punishable by up to five years in prison in Senegal, where arrests and prosecutions have risen sharply, according to a 2020 global review by the International …
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MAPUTO (Reuters) – Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi’s PCR results came back negative for COVID-19 after Nyusi and his wife Isaura tested positive via rapid tests days earlier, the president’s office said on Wednesday. Nyusi wrote in a post on his official Facebook page that he would continue to isolate in line with national health protocols …
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By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been detained in Ethiopia after being deported from Saudi Arabia, suffering brutality from guards and atrocious conditions in both nations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. The Tigrayans appear to have been caught up in both a tough expulsion programme by Riyadh …
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By Peter Apps LONDON (Reuters) – In the week before Christmas, Ethiopia suffered its worst air strikes since October, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has reported. Dozens of people were killed and many more were wounded in a particularly bloody week of a largely hidden conflict that says much about …
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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will step down from his post this month after more than nine months in the job, and David Satterfield, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Turkey, will take up the role, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African police arrested a 36-year-old man on Wednesday for allegedly smashing windows at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg with a hammer, police said. Police fired a warning shot after the suspect carried on breaking windows despite being ordered to stop, a police statement said. The man has been charged with malicious …
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