ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s High Court rejected a second application for bail from separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu and ordered him to face trial on Nov. 14 on charges of terrorism and broadcasting falsehoods. Kanu, a British citizen, was first refused bail in March after his arrest last year in Kenya after years on the run. …
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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will return a goddess statue that was stolen from Cameroon 120 years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said on Monday, part of a growing trend to give back artefacts taken during the colonial era. The female figure, known as Ngonnso’, will be returned to the kingdom of …
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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccan authorities have begun prosecuting 65 migrants who joined Friday’s mass attempt to cross into a Spanish enclave by storming a border post, leading to the death of at least 23 migrants, a judicial source said on Monday. About 2,000 migrants took part in the attempt, triggering violent skirmishes …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian judge on Monday released former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, who was arrested four days ago on suspicion of money laundering, his lawyer Samir Dilou told Reuters. Jebali is also a former senior member in the Ennahda Islamist party. (Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Chris Reese)
MADRID (Reuters) – The presence of Russia in North African countries is increasing in a region where political instability and militant activity are spreading, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Tuesday, defending a foreign policy shift towards Africa. “There is a growing Russian presence in Africa, in North African countries,” he told Antena3 …
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(Reuters) – Ethiopia on Monday denied Sudan’s accusation that its army had captured and executed seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian, instead blaming the killings on a local militia. Skirmishes between the neighbouring countries have erupted in recent years over the contested and fertile al-Fashqa border region. Sudan’s foreign ministry said on Monday the men …
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By Duncan Miriri and Joe Bavier THIKA, Kenya (Reuters) – Watching workers poke avocados from the treetops in an orchard owned by Kenyan agriculture firm Kakuzi, managing director Chris Flowers revels in the thought some might soon go to the crown jewel of emerging consumer markets: China. Taking advantage of Beijing’s deeper focus on trade …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The African Union should facilitate peace talks between Ethiopia’s government and rebellious forces from the Tigray region in the north, the country’s ruling party told state media on Monday. The conflict in Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, has displaced millions of people, plunged parts of Tigray into famine conditions and killed …
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(Reuters) -Ethiopia on Monday denied Sudan’s accusation that its army had captured and executed seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian, instead blaming the killings on a local militia. Skirmishes between the neighbouring countries have erupted in recent years over the contested and fertile al-Fashqa border region. Sudan’s foreign ministry said on Monday the men had …
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By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) -About 30 villagers were killed in weekend attacks in the Akwaya district of Cameroon’s South West region in what local sources described as a feud over land between neighbouring communities aggravated by separatist insurgents acting as hired guns. Anglophone insurgents began fighting the Cameroonian military in the South West …
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