By Cooper Inveen and Francis Kokoroko ACCRA (Reuters) – Storm clouds circled a large zinc shed outside Ghana’s capital Accra where market porters sat on overturned metal bowls, disheartened by the lack of business as the encroaching rain deterred shoppers from nearby stalls. Then a rumbling sound broke the stillness as gourmet chef Elijah Addo …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Britain pressed on with its strategy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda on Wednesday and is planning further flights despite a last-minute intervention by European judges that grounded the first plane minutes before it was due to depart. The government was thwarted in its attempt to send a handful of …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair has dropped a requirement for South African passengers to prove their nationality before travelling by completing a test in Afrikaans, Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said after the policy drew a backlash among South Africans. The South African government said last week it was taken aback by the low cost carrier’s decision …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France announced on Wednesday that soldiers from its operation battling Islamist militants in the Sahel region of West Africa had captured Oumeya Ould Albakaye, a senior Islamic State figure in Mali. The French Armed Forces ministry said Albakaye was captured by Operation Barkhane forces between the night of June 11 and the …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The director of the Middle East at the International Monetary Fund, Jihad Azour, will visit Tunisia next week and meet President Kais Saied, a government official told Reuters on Tuesday, in an indication official negotiations could start soon over a rescue package. The official added Azour will also meet Prime Minister Najla …
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WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia recorded an increase in rhino poaching cases in June, the government said on Tuesday, as it announced the discovery of 11 carcasses in less than two weeks. Environment ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda said in a statement that 11 black rhinos had been recently killed in Etosha National Park, Namibia’s largest. Their …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Michael Holden LONDON/BOSCOMBE DOWN, England (Reuters) -Britain’s first flight to take asylum seekers to Rwanda did not take off as scheduled on Tuesday after the European human rights court issued last-minute injunctions to stop the deportation of the handful of migrants on board. The British government’s plan to send some migrants …
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(Corrects attribution of TPLF reaction in paragraphs 5 and 7) ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Tuesday the federal government had formed a committee to negotiate with forces from the rebellious northern region of Tigray, in the first public confirmation of a key step towards peace negotations. The nearly two-year conflict …
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(Reuters) – A Zimbabwean freelance reporter working for the New York Times was on Tuesday convicted and fined after he was accused of obtaining fake accreditation documents for two of the U.S. newspaper’s journalists on a visit, his lawyer said. Jeffrey Moyo, a 37-year-old Zimbabwean, spent three weeks in jail last year and his trial …
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By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) – Asylum seekers sent from filthy, dangerous Libyan detention centers to Rwanda say their new quarters are a huge improvement but they still want to reach Europe – raising questions over the deterrent effect of Britain’s plan to transfer migrants to the East African country. The first flight of asylum …
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