By Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) – A Senegalese opposition leader on Wednesday called on supporters to be ready to defend their votes by any means, accusing the ruling party of President Macky Sall of wanting to steal a legislative election the opposition claims to have won. Official results of Sunday’s vote are expected on Thursday, …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s military will use maximum firepower to uproot the armed groups that are behind mounting insecurity in the country, the airforce said on Wednesday, amid concerns that the situation, if unchecked, could impact a general election in February. Attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northeast and kidnappings for ransom …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo has asked the spokesman of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, to leave the country, blaming him for stoking tensions that led to deadly protests last week. Thirty-six people, including four U.N. peacekeepers, were killed last week as hundreds of protesters vandalised and set fire to U.N. buildings in …
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By Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) – Shepherd Chowe pushes a cart filled with tins, iron rods and other metallic objects down a dusty pathway in Hopley, a poor settlement about 15 km west of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. It is 11 a.m. and Chowe, 46, has arrived at a scrap yard where dozens of metal scavengers …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s Islamist opposition party Ennahda said on Wednesday that its leader Rached Ghannouchi was under investigation on charges of describing security forces as tyrannical, though the party denies he said that. Ghannouchi is already under investigation over money laundering charges and Ennahda describe the probes as political targeting by President Kais Saied, …
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By Baz Ratner KIBIGORI, Kenya (Reuters) – The khaki-coloured road slicing through Kibigori town in Kenya’s sugar-growing country is more than a county boundary, it is also a faultline dividing communities fielding rival presidential candidates in the Aug. 9 election. The town’s split loyalties and history of unrest make it a potential flashpoint where armed …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s army said on Wednesday that it accidentally killed civilians during a counter-terrorist operation in the country’s southeast earlier this week. The West African country has been battling an insurgency by Islamist militant groups, some linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State, which control large swathes of territory and wage frequent …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s struggling state power utility Eskom said it would implement “Stage 2” scheduled power cuts from 1600 until midnight local time (1400 to 2200 GMT) on Wednesday and Thursday due to a shortage of generation capacity. (Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo)
By Nafisa Eltahir CAIRO (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, seemed harmless to neighbours when he was a young man growing up in a leafy Cairo suburb. “Years went by, and then all of a sudden we heard about Ayman al-Zawahiri doing all these …
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By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – European Union and U.S. officials said on Tuesday that “there should be no obstacle” to restoring banking and telecommunications services to the country’s isolated northern Tigray region. War erupted in Tigray in November 2020 and spilled into neighbouring regions a year ago. The fighting eased in March after …
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