By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Al Shabaab militants killed at least 18 civilians and destroyed trucks laden with relief food in an overnight attack in Somalia’s central region, residents and a state news agency said on Saturday. The Islamist group launched the attack in the Hiran area in the semi-autonomous state of Hirshabelle in …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has appointed Senegalese diplomat and former government minister Abdoulaye Bathily as his Libya envoy, the U.N. Libya mission said in a statement on Saturday. Bathily succeeds Jan Kubis, who stepped down from the role late last year as diplomacy aimed at resolving Libya’s longstanding conflict faltered in …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 42 people in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region, two residents who buried the bodies in mass graves said on Friday, the latest killings in the country’s most populous region where escalating violence has left hundreds dead. The latest attack by an armed group against local residents occurred on Tuesday, …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen kidnapped dozens of worshippers attending Friday afternoon prayers at a mosque in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara, police and witnesses said. Armed gangs are rife across Nigeria’s northwest where they rob or kidnap for ransom, and violence has been increasing, where thinly stretched security forces often fail to stop the …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – A United Nations helicopter crashed on Friday morning as it was flying over east Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said. The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service chopper, managed by the WFP, went down near the city of Goma. There were no passengers on board …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Fighting has erupted again around the borders of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, shattering a ceasefire declared in March. Both sides blame each other for restarting the war, which originally ignited in November 2020 when Tigrayan forces seized military bases across their region. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the party that controls …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Seven people were killed and 23 injured as tribal violence flared in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, the state’s security committee said, just weeks after major clashes. In mid-July, at least 105 people were killed and thousands displaced in fighting over land between the Hausa and Funj tribes, and unrest spread to …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa will hold talks at the White House on Sept. 16 to discuss trade, investment, climate and energy, the White House said on Thursday. “The two Presidents will reaffirm the importance of our enduring partnership, and discuss our work together to address regional …
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By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Angola’s main opposition party said on Thursday it filed a case with the constitutional court to seek the annulment of last week’s election in which the ruling MPLA was declared the winner. After the most closely fought election since independence from Portugal in 1975, the electoral commission declared the …
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to appoint a former Senegalese minister to lead U.N. efforts to broker peace in Libya, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday. The 15-member U.N. Security Council needs to agree by consensus to the appointment of Abdoulaye Bathily as the U.N. special envoy for …
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