PARIS (Reuters) -France on Tuesday returned three colonial-era skulls held in a Paris museum to Madagascar 128 years after they were taken to France, including one believed to be that of a Malagasy king killed by French troops. The skull, presumed to be that of King Toera and two others from the Sakalava ethnic group, …
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DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal authorities said they had detected a case of mpox in a foreign man who arrived in the West African country last week. The health ministry said it was the first case it had detected this year. It was not immediately clear how many cases, if any, had been reported there before January. …
LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria has extradited a fugitive Chinese gang leader wanted over violent crimes in China following a joint police operation coordinated through Interpol, Nigerian police said on Sunday. The man, named as Dai Qisheng, was arrested in Abuja on August 8 and handed over to Chinese authorities a week later under a police-to-police cooperation …
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ABUJA (Reuters) -The Nigerian Air Force has rescued 76 kidnap victims, including women and children, after a precision air strike on a bandit stronghold in northwest Katsina State, authorities said on Saturday. The operation, targeting Pauwa Hill in Kankara Local Government Area, was part of a manhunt for a gang leader named Babaro who has …
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ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s air force said it killed at least 35 Islamic fighters in air strikes near the Cameroon border on Saturday, following intelligence that the group was planning an attack on ground troops. The strikes targeted four assembly points, air force spokesperson Ehimen Ejodame said in a statement, adding that communication was later restored …
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(Reuters) -A contract worker died following an incident in Rio Tinto’s SimFer mine site in Nzerekore, Guinea on Friday, the mining company said. All activity at the SimFer mine site is currently suspended, the iron ore miner said in its statement on Saturday. Incoming chief executive Simon Trott said he will be traveling to Guinea, …
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MBABANE (Reuters) -Human rights lawyers and activists have sued the government of Eswatini for making a secretive deal with President Donald Trump’s administration to accept third-country deportees from the U.S., which they claim was unconstitutional. The case was due be heard at the High Court of Eswatini on Friday, but was postponed until September 25 …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -A Gambian man who was part of an armed unit run by former dictator Yahya Jammeh and was convicted of torture by a U.S. jury in April has been sentenced to more than 67 years in prison, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday. A Colorado jury convicted the Gambian national, …
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(Reuters) -Congo’s military auditor general formally told a military court on Friday that he is seeking the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia for war crimes including homicide, rape and torture. Kabila spent almost two decades in power before stepping down in 2018. He has been abroad since …
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By Sisipho Skweyiya CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -With the jagged peaks of Cape Town’s Table Mountain beneath him and the wind roaring past his wingsuit, South African Jean-Jacques Wallis is redefining the limits of human flight — and putting South Africa on the global map of extreme aerial sports. Wallis, 35, is one of the world’s …
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