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Zimbabwe women sew sanitary pads to help keep girls in school

19 Jul 2022 19 Jul 2022

MUTASA DISTRICT, Zimbabwe (Reuters) – A community group in rural Zimbabwe is making reusable sanitary towels so that girls do not skip school when they have their period. The Chiedza Community Welfare Trust, in Zimbabwe’s Mutasa District, started sewing cloth sanitary pads when founder Gladys Mukaratirwa realised that local girls were missing school every month …

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Somalia says 5,000 missing soldiers to come home soon from Eritrea

19 Jul 2022 19 Jul 2022

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia will soon bring home 5,000 men it sent to train in Eritrea as soldiers, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday, after months of protests by the men’s parents claiming they had been recruited under false pretences and held captive. Initial reports that thousands of men had gone missing provoked protests in …

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Bus crash near Egypt’s Minya leaves 23 people dead

19 Jul 2022 19 Jul 2022

CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 23 people were killed and 30 injured when a bus collided with a truck near the Egyptian city of Minya early on Tuesday, the regional governor’s office said in a statement. The injured were transferred to hospital in the town of Mallawi, about 260km (162 miles) south of the capital, …

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U.S. says it kills two al Shabaab militants in Somalia airstrike

19 Jul 2022 19 Jul 2022

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The U.S. military said it had killed two fighters from the al Shabaab militant group in an airstrike in a remote part of Somalia’s southern Jubaland state on Sunday. The United States has been carrying out air strikes in Somalia to try to defeat al Shabaab, an al Qaeda franchise seeking to …

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South African rand steadies against dollar, stocks climb

18 Jul 2022 18 Jul 2022

(Reuters) -South Africa’s rand steadied against the dollar on Monday, after the U.S. currency fell to a more than 1-week low as traders pared bets on how aggressively the Federal Reserve would hike interest rates next week. At 1609 GMT, the rand traded at 17.0700 against the dollar, not far from its previous close of …

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Plane crash-lands at Somalia airport, all 30 passengers survived

18 Jul 2022 18 Jul 2022

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A passenger plane crash-landed at an airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, with no deaths reported and all those on board – more than 30 passengers – rescued. Video from the scene showed the plane upside down after having apparently flipped over on landing. Black smoke and flames rose into the …

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Autopsy indicates Angola ex-leader died of natural causes, Spanish court orders more testing

18 Jul 2022 18 Jul 2022

MADRID (Reuters) – Preliminary autopsy results show the death of Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos was due to natural causes, a Spanish court said on Monday while ordering further examination. Dos Santos died two weeks ago in Barcelona at the age of 79. The court also decided to delay the handover of his …

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Tensions spread in Sudan as tribal clashes rage on

18 Jul 2022 18 Jul 2022

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The death toll from tribal clashes triggered by land disputes in southeastern Sudan’s Blue Nile State has risen to at least 64, medical sources said on Monday, with the long festering tensions spreading into some other states. A curfew was imposed in two major towns of Blue Nile State and security forces …

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Top Israeli general, in first Morocco visit, to explore defence deals

18 Jul 2022 18 Jul 2022

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The chief of Israel’s armed forces will visit Morocco on Monday in the highest-profile military engagement between the countries, which upgraded ties in 2020 under a U.S. diplomatic drive. While Lieutenant-General Aviv Kochavi’s trip has been showcased by Israel as part of emerging defence cooperation with the North African country, …

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo shrug off power cut to sing for Mandela

18 Jul 2022 18 Jul 2022

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Ladysmith Black Mambazo sang their warm-hearted choral harmonies in honour of peace icon Nelson Mandela on Sunday, with a 45-minute forced intermission caused by one of the power cuts that have become a part of daily life in South Africa. The concert in Johannesburg’s main theatre, a day before …

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