RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman headed to Egypt on Monday, state news agency SPA said, starting his first tour outside the Gulf region in over three years. He will also visit Jordan and Turkey. The prince’s trip comes ahead of next month’s visit to the region by …
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BISSAU (Reuters) – West Africa’s regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) deployed troops to Guinea-Bissau on Monday to help stabilize the country after a failed coup earlier this year. The 15-nation bloc announced in February that it would deploy the force, a few days after President Umaru Sissoco Embalo survived what …
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By Refiles to add Mali in the headline DAKAR (Reuters) – Islamist militants killed 132 civilians in multiple attacks on villages in central Mali over the weekend, the government said on Monday. (Reporting by Sofia Christensen; Editing by James Macharia Chege)
TUNIS (Reuters) – The head of Tunisia’s constitution committee delivered the draft of a new constitution to President Kais Saied on Monday, the presidency said, with expectations that the document will grant more powers to the president. Saied, who seized executive power last year, dissolved parliament and ruled by decree – a move opponents called …
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By Aaron Ross (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s army has been locked in heavy fighting since late May with the M23 rebel group, which is waging its most sustained offensive since a 2012-2013 insurrection that seized vast swathes of territory. The conflict has sparked a diplomatic crisis between Congo and neighbouring Rwanda, which Kinshasa …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian coast guards retrieved the bodies of four migrants whose boat sank off Tunisia, security official told Reuters on Monday. He added that the bodies recovered in Skhira on Sunday were decomposing. In recent months, dozens of people have drowned off the Tunisian coast, with an increase in the frequency of attempted …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -An attack by gunmen in Ethiopia’s western Oromiya region left at least 260 civilians dead on Saturday, according to two residents who gave detailed accounts on Monday of how they had taken part in burying corpses in mass graves. Oromiya, home to Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group the Oromo as well as people …
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By Katharine Houreld DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) -Each morning in this Somali border town, 11-year-old Bashir Nur Salat plots his day’s mission behind a crooked wire fence. Armed with only a friend’s yellow school shirt, a borrowed book and toothy grin, he eyes his prize through the mesh: lunch. Bashir lives where three crises converge – …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Belgium handed over a tooth, the only known remains of the murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, to his family during a ceremony in Brussels on Monday. Lumumba became the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) first democratically elected prime minister after independence from Belgium in 1960, but alarmed the West with overtures to …
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(Removes reference to the location of the attackers in the lead) (Reuters) – Two people were killed and six were injured when suspected militants opened fire on a bus in southwestern Rwanda, Rwandan police said. Saturday’s attack, which killed the bus driver and a passenger, was carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN), the …
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