By Abdiqani Hassani BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland have extended President Muse Bihi Abdi’s current term of office by two years ahead of its expiry in November, the senate chairman said on Saturday. The region’s electoral body said last month it had postponed a presidential election due in November …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – More penguins have died from avian flu at the colony at Cape Town’s Boulders beach, a popular tourist attraction and an important breeding site in South Africa, raising concerns for the species and for other seabirds. David Roberts, a clinical veterinarian at the South African Foundation For The Conservation Of Coastal …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – A Tanzanian doctor working in Uganda who contracted Ebola has died, the first health worker killed by the disease in the latest outbreak in the country, Uganda’s health minister said on Saturday. “I regret to announce that we have lost our first doctor, Dr. Mohammed Ali, a Tanzanian national, 37-year-old Male,” the …
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – A regional court on Friday dismissed a case brought by a group of Maasai villagers claiming the Tanzanian government used violence to evict them from their ancestral lands in the north of the country. Rights groups said the ruling sent a dangerous message that indigenous peoples can be evicted from …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Equatorial Guinea has started proceedings against France at the International Court of Justice, said the Dutch-based court body on Friday, adding it related to charges that France had not followed up its obligations over fighting corruption. “Equatorial Guinea institutes proceedings against France with regard to a dispute concerning the alleged violation, by France, …
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By Thiam Ndiaga and Anne Mimault OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Armed soldiers in fatigues and masks appeared on television in Burkina Faso on Friday night to confirm the ouster of President Paul-Henri Damiba, the second coup in the troubled West African country this year. The announcement capped a day that began with gunfire near a military camp …
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BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – Islamist militants from al Shabaab on Friday killed 12 people drilling a well in drought-ravaged southern Somalia, a local resident and official said. Conflict between the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, which wants to implement a strict implementation of sharia, or Islamic law, and the central government has killed thousands of people …
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By Jorgelina do Rosario and Nigel Hunt LONDON (Reuters) – The United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is in talks with the International Monetary Fund on joining forces on a new financing programme designed to shore up sustainable growth in poorer countries. IFAD could become a partner of the IMF’s $45 billion lending …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Cholera cases have surged this year, especially in places of poverty and conflict, with outbreaks reported in 26 countries and fatality rates rising sharply, a World Health Organization official said on Friday. In a typical year, fewer than 20 countries report outbreaks of the disease which is spread by …
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By Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) – Prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was found guilty of staging an anti-government protest and received a six-month suspended jail sentence and a fine, a court ruled on Thursday. Dangarembga and her co-accused Julie Barnes, who was also found guilty, had been charged with participating in a public …
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