RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco has stopped 45,015 people from illegally migrating to Europe since January and busted 177 migrant trafficking gangs, Morocco’s state news agency MAP reported on Friday, citing interior ministry data. It did not give comparative data for the same period in 2023 and the interior ministry did not respond to a Reuters …
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(Reuters) – The French capital will pay tribute to Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set on fire by her boyfriend, by naming a sports facility in her honour, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Friday. The marathon runner, who competed in the Paris Games last month died on Thursday, four days after she was …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Both sides in Sudan’s civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect civilians, a U.N.-mandated mission said on Friday. Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have both raped and …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -A fire killed 17 boys when it tore through the dormitory in which they were sleeping at a boarding school in central Kenya in the early hours of Friday, police said. “We saw several children in there that had been burnt,” Phillip Gathogo, a local resident, told reporters. “I was just lucky to …
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NAIROBI/ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) -Moureen Atieno Omolo was unable to sleep for days after hearing about the deadly attack on Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, whose former boyfriend doused her in petrol and set her ablaze on Sunday. Every time the now 36-year-old Kenyan closed her eyes, memories of her own nightmarish marriage came flooding back. Cheptegei, …
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s spy chief visited Libya as backers of the Tripoli government search for a way out of a political impasse that has shut down Libya’s oil exports and jeopardised four years of relative stability. A Turkish security source said on Friday that Ibrahim Kalin, head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT), had met …
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(Updates with campaign team saying Zammel is still in custody) By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel was still in detention on Friday despite being released for a few hours a day earlier, his campaign team said. Zammel is one of three candidates approved by Tunisia’s electoral commission to run in a …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) -The World Bank and French Development Agency (AFD) have given Uganda more than $600 million to fund infrastructure development and manage waste in the capital Kampala, the government and World Bank said on Thursday. Ugandans have complained about waste management and the poor state of the roads in Kampala, which suffers chronic underfunding …
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By Ange Kasongo and Justin Makangara KINSHASA (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo received its first batch of mpox vaccines on Thursday, which health authorities hope will help curb an outbreak that has prompted the U.N. to declare a global public health emergency. Congo is the epicentre of the outbreak, which has spread to neighbouring countries …
By Amina Ismail CALAIS, France (Reuters) – Around 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Anwar Mansour, a 17-year-old Eritrean, and some 60 other migrants including women and children boarded a 10-meter(33-foot)-long dinghy on a beach in northern France and set off across the choppy waters of the Channel for Britain. Two hours out to sea, the vessel …
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