By Ngouda Dione and Bate Felix TIVAOUANE, Senegal (Reuters) – Anta Ba arrived at the gate of the Tivaouane hospital in western Senegal early on Thursday to breastfeed her baby daughter, the only one of her triplets not discharged because she was still considered too weak. But a guard stopped her and told her that …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past week between the army and M23 rebel group has forced more than 72,000 people from their homes, the United Nations said on Friday. The M23, a rebellion claiming to represent the interests of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo, is staging its largest …
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BANGUI (Reuters) – Allies of Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera have proposed changes to the constitution that would let him keep running for office, prompting protests from the opposition. Backers of the plan to remove presidential term limits said it was meant to bring the country into line with many of its neighbours, and …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Security forces fanned out across a wide swathe of central Khartoum on Thursday, a Reuters reporter witnessed, as police attempted to block the latest protests against military rule in seven months. Thousands of protesters, the most seen in about two months, the reporter said, marched towards the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum …
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By Bate Felix and Ngouda Dione TIVAOUANE, Senegal (Reuters) – Three weeks ago, Ramata Gueye died after giving birth to a son, Mohamed, seven months into her pregnancy. On Thursday, her bereaved husband El Hadj Gueye learnt that Mohamed was one of 11 babies killed by a fire in a hospital neonatal ward. The couple …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it has secured the forfeiture of a Maryland property purchased by former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh with about $3.5 million in alleged corruption proceeds through a trust set up by his wife. Jammeh seized power of the tiny West African nation in …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has suffered another setback in his attempts to remove the lead prosecutor from his arms deal corruption trial, as a top judge dismissed his latest petition in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). Zuma, ousted in 2018 after nine years in power, accuses the prosecutor of …
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By Bate Felix and Ngouda Dione TIVAOUANE, Senegal (Reuters) -Three weeks ago, Ramata Gueye died after giving birth to a son, Mohamed, seven months into her pregnancy. On Thursday, her bereaved husband El Hadj Gueye learnt that Mohamed was one of 11 babies killed by a fire in a hospital neonatal ward. The couple had …
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By Rachel Savage and Alessandra Prentice LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) – Delays in securing debt relief from commercial creditors are blocking Chad’s access to development funding and hampering its ability to take advantage of current high crude oil prices, the International Monetary Fund’s Africa director said on Thursday. In January 2021, Chad became the first country to …
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By Djaffar Al Katanty GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Heavy fighting raged in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday between the army and M23 rebels, who are waging their most sustained offensive since a 2012-2013 insurrection that briefly overran the major city of Goma. The army recaptured its base in Rumangabo from the …
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