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(Reuters) – UK Home Secretary Priti Patel called the European Convention on Human Rights'(ECHR) decision to ground UK’s first deportation flight to Rwanda “scandalous,” The Telegraph reported. “The opaque way this court has operated is scandalous,” Priti Patel said in an interview with the newspaper published on Saturday, after the government was thwarted in its …

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By Djaffar Sabiti and Stanis Bujakera GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Rwandan police on Friday shot and killed a Congolese soldier who crossed the border and fired at security forces, Rwanda’s army said, as fighting intensified 50 km (30 miles) away between Congo’s military and rebels it says are backed by Rwanda. The Central …

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GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) called on Friday for urgent support to some 16,000 newly displaced people who fled one of Burkina Faso’s deadliest militant attacks last weekend that left at least 100 people dead. Soldiers have recovered 86 bodies since the attack on Saturday night in the northern province of Seno, the …

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By Dawit Endeshaw and Katharine Houreld ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – In a packed Ethiopian prison last November, charity worker Tesfaye Weldemaryam cried out in delirium for two weeks. To make space for Tesfaye to lie down, said a cellmate, other prisoners huddled together in the darkness, their legs aching from constant standing. Tesfaye, 36, was …

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By Aaron Ross DAKAR (Reuters) – Security has deteriorated in two provinces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the government placed them under military rule last year, U.N. experts said on Friday. The government declared a state of siege in April 2021 in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in response to escalating attacks by …

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RABAT (Reuters) – King Mohammed VI of Morocco has tested positive for COVID-19 but has exhibited no symptoms, his doctor said on Thursday. The king will be on sick leave for a couple of days, his doctor Lahcen Belyamani said in a statement carried by state media. King Mohammed, who holds sweeping powers, has headed …

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A protester was shot dead as anti-military protests flared in parts of Khartoum and nearby Omdurman on Thursday, a week after military leaders and the former ruling civilian coalition met to break a political deadlock gripping Sudan since last year’s army coup. The Forces of Freedom and Change described the meeting in …

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – More than a third of Sudan’s population is currently facing acute food insecurity, the World Food Programme said on Thursday, with inadequate funds to cope. The U.N. agency said that number, 15 million people, was up seven percentage points from last year, or about 3 million people. It stood to increase to …

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