BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) -Bullet-riddled buildings still line some streets in Ivory Coast’s former rebel capital Bouake, but in the run-up to his third re-election bid President Alassane Ouattara is keen to turn the city into a symbol of recovery. “Bouake is a city of past pain, but above all rebirth, unity and renewed brotherhood,” …
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BANJUL (Reuters) -Gambian police have charged three women over the death of a one-month-old girl who had undergone female genital mutilation in a case that has sparked an outcry across the country, where the practice persists despite a decade-old ban. The three were charged under the Women’s (Amendment) Act, 2015, a landmark law criminalising female …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s defence chief has defended operations against insurgents and criminal gangs that have caused civilian casualties, saying the military is doing what it can to prevent loss of life. Nigeria’s military has increasingly used airstrikes against the growing threat of militias in the north and central regions. It has admitted …
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(Reuters) -The Congolese mining company sanctioned by the United States this week has said it “categorically rejects” allegations linking it to armed groups and mineral smuggling in turbulent eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced sanctions against the Cooperative des Artisanaux Miniers du Congo (CDMC) over what it called the …
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By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known member of the genus Homo to which our own species belongs. The scientists discovered in …
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PALMA/BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) -More than 30 boats carrying about 600 irregular migrants have arrived in Spain’s Balearic islands since Monday, officials said, as a new migratory route from North Africa gains traction after a crackdown by authorities in other jumping off points. Overall, irregular migration to Spain has fallen this year, but it has risen …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda’s biggest opposition party on Wednesday filed a case in the constitutional court to nullify a newly enacted law that reinstated the right of military tribunals to try civilians, a lawyer and party official said. The Supreme Court proscribed the prosecution of civilians in the tribunals in January, saying they …
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By Giulia Paravicini and David Lewis RUBAYA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Under the watchful eye of M23 rebels in the hills around the Congolese town of Rubaya, a line of men in rubber boots ferry sacks full of crushed rocks up winding paths cut into the slopes. The laborers are hauling coltan ore, a …
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LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria’s military has killed 592 armed militia members in the northeastern sate of Borno in the past eight months, after stepping up air strikes in a region hit by years of violence, the air force said. The results surpassed the operational gains recorded in 2024, Chief of Air Staff Hasan Abubakar said during …
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By Aaron Ross MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE, Kenya (Reuters) -When Ritz-Carlton opens its first safari lodge on Friday in Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve, guests will pay nightly rates starting from $3,500 per person for tented suites with private decks overlooking a river crossed by migrating wildebeest. But the director of a Maasai conservation institute and …
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