NAIROBI (Reuters) -Power was restored to 80% of areas affected by an outage in Kenya, the country’s sole electricity distributor Kenya Power said on Wednesday evening, after a blackout hit the capital and two other regions earlier in the day. The company, which buys the bulk of its power from Kenya Electricity Generating Company, said …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – A planned strike by pilots at Kenya Airways would jeopardise the airline’s recovery from the pandemic and would be unjustified, the company’s board said on Wednesday. KALPA, a union that represents more than 400 pilots at the carrier, issued a notice that is set to trigger a strike at …
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Civilians attacked a United Nations peacekeeping convoy in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday evening, injuring two people, the U.N. mission said on Wednesday. The convoy was attacked when it stopped at an army checkpoint near an internally displaced persons site in Kanyarutshinya, 8 kilometres (5 miles) …
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PRETORIA (Reuters) – The parties in the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray have agreed to cease hostilities, African Union mediator Olusegun Obasanjo said on Wednesday just over a week after formal peace talks began in South Africa. The war, which broke out in November 2020, pits regional forces from Tigray against Ethiopia’s federal …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – More than 200,000 Nigerians displaced by a long-running Islamist insurgency are struggling for food and shelter after authorities in the northeast shut some of the camps they were living in and stopped aid, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday. Borno state, the epicentre of the insurgency, announced in October …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Attackers suspected to be members of Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group have abducted two paramedics, plus a driver and a patient near Kenya’s border with Somalia, police said. The attackers ambushed an ambulance belonging to the regional county government of Mandera, north east of the country, as it transported the patient …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday issued sanctions targeting Islamic State in Somalia, designating members of the group and others it accused of being involved in a “terrorist weapons trafficking network” in Eastern Africa. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said several of the people designated in Tuesday’s action …
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By Judicael Yongo BANGUI (Reuters) – Central African Republic on Monday sentenced three rebels to prison for murder and other crimes against humanity in the inaugural trial of its Special Criminal Court. The trial was related to the massacre of 46 civilians in the northern villages of Koundjili and Lemouna in May 2019, killings prosecutors …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The leader of Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union said on Monday that the government had made a pledge to the International Monetary Fund to sell state-owned BH bank and the state tobacco factory, adding that it would strongly oppose the move. The government did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment on …
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By Pap Saine BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia has not yet confirmed that toxic cough syrup was the cause of the deaths of 70 children from acute kidney injury, a representative of the country’s Medicines Control Agency said on Monday. The small West African state has been investigating a mysterious slew of child deaths in recent …
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