LONDON (Reuters) -Hunger and disease are spreading in war-torn Sudan, with famine already present in several areas, 25 million people acutely food insecure and nearly 100,000 cholera cases recorded since last July, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. Sudan’s conflict between the army and rival Rapid Support Forces has displaced millions and split the …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) -A Ugandan judge refused to grant bail on Friday to veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who has been in jail for nearly nine months on treason charges. The case has raised concerns among government critics, including opposition leader Bobi Wine and rights groups, about a crackdown ahead of Uganda’s national election early next …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Friday it had issued an arrest warrant for a Libyan national accused of war crimes. The ICC said Saif Suleiman Sneidel is believed to be a member of “Group 50”, a sub-group of the Al-Saiqa Brigade, and said there are reasonable grounds to believe he is …
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PRETORIA (Reuters) -A South African court on Friday ordered the repatriation of former Zambian president Edgar Lungu’s body for a state funeral, siding with Zambia’s government over his family who wanted him buried in South Africa, not in the presence of his successor. Lungu, Zambia’s head of state from 2015 to 2021, died in South …
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KIGALI (Reuters) -A Rwandan man, who was arrested in Norway for crimes he allegedly committed during the East African nation’s 1994 genocide, has been repatriated, a spokesperson for Rwanda’s prosecutor’s office said on Friday. François Gasana, who was a student during the genocide in which more than 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were systematically …
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By Sonia Rolley PARIS (Reuters) -Rwanda-backed M23 rebels killed at least 319 civilians, including 48 women and 19 children, last month in eastern Congo, Volker Turk, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said on Wednesday, citing “first-hand accounts”. The violence in the Rutshuru territory of North Kivu province produced “one of the largest documented death …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -A train and a bus collided on a railway crossing in central Kenya on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring others. The Kenya Pipeline Company, whose bus was involved in the accident, said it was carrying staff finishing their morning shift at a training centre near the town of Naivasha. “All …
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(Reuters) -The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group has not received an invitation to peace talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo scheduled to begin in Doha on Friday, its leader Bertrand Bisimwa told reporters on Thursday. A delay to the start of the talks risks scuppering an ambitious pledge by the two sides to end the …
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By Jefferson Kahinju NAIROBI (Reuters) -A small plane carrying medical staff crashed in a densely-populated neighbourhood in Kenya’s capital on Thursday afternoon, killing six people, local authorities said. The Cessna plane, run by AMREF Flying Doctors, came down as it was flying to Hargeisa, the capital of Somalia’s breakaway territory of Somaliland, the charity said …
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BISSAU (Reuters) -Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo appointed a new prime minister on Thursday, three months before presidential and legislative elections and several months after Embalo’s opponents say his mandate expired. Braima Camara, formerly a coordinator of the opposition Madem G15 party, was named prime minister by presidential decree. He is the third prime minister …
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