DAKAR (Reuters) – The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared the end of its 14th Ebola outbreak after less than three months, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. There were four confirmed cases and one probable case, all of whom died, the WHO said in a statement. The outbreak was the third in …
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By Emma Farge and Angus McDowall GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N.-appointed mission to Libya said on Monday there are “probable mass graves” yet to be investigated, possibly as many as 100, in a town where hundreds of bodies have already been found, and it urged Tripoli to keep searching. The report to be submitted to …
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By Cooper Inveen and Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) – Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali, after its military rulers proposed a 24-month transition to democracy and published a new electoral law. The bloc imposed stiff sanctions on Mali in January after …
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By Barry Malone and Tiksa Negeri ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Tsegaye Tadesse, a former Reuters correspondent in Ethiopia who had a front row seat to history and a knack for being in the right place at the right time, has died at 92. An avuncular presence, easily recognisable with his trademark pipes and fedora hats, …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Two women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt’s Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. Two sources told Reuters that the body of a Romanian tourist in her late forties was discovered hours after an attack that left a 68-year-old Austrian woman dead. …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan protesters say they will keep demonstrating until all the ruling elites quit power after rallies in most main cities on Friday culminated in a crowd storming the parliament building and torching parts of it. Protesters held their biggest rally in Tripoli for years, chanting slogans against Libya’s feuding political elites, and …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli military observers have taken part in a drill in Morocco for the first time, Israel’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday, describing the move as a mark of improved relations, which were upgraded in 2020. The presence of the three observers at this week’s “African Lion 2022” exercise, which also involved U.S. …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 30 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush after gunmen attacked a mine in the Shiroro area of Niger state earlier this week, three sources said on Saturday. The troops were among security forces deployed to search for mine workers, including four Chinese nationals, said to have been kidnapped …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – The head of Tunisia’s constitution committee blasted a proposed constitution published by President Kais Saied, local media reported on Sunday, reinforcing opposition fears that Saied was seeking to impose a unilateral charter. Sadok Belaid, a former constitutional law professor was named by Saied to draft a “new constitution for …
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(Refiles to fix garbled byline) By Ahmed Elumami and Ayman al-Warfali TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) -Fury at Libya’s feuding leaders boiled over on Friday as protesters stormed the parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk and staged the biggest demonstration for years in the capital Tripoli, in the west. The Tobruk protesters, accusing the parliament …
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