DAKAR (Reuters) – Armed men kidnapped an Italian couple and their son in southern Mali overnight, their church said on Friday, as violence spreads in a country ravaged by an Islamist insurgency. A spokesman for the Jehovah’s Witnesses church in neighbouring Senegal said the couple is in their 70s and their son is about 50. …
By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian President Kais Saied named a law professor to head an advisory committee to draft a new constitution for a “new republic”, the presidency said on Friday, excluding political parties from restructuring the political system. Saied has consolidated his one-man rule since seizing executive power last summer and dissolving the …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -A prominent Ethiopian general critical of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government appeared in court on Friday after being detained this week, his wife said, amid the arrests of some ethnic Amhara political activists and journalists. Brigadier General Tefera Mamo commanded the Amhara region’s forces until February when he was removed without explanation. …
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By Jennifer Rigby and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) -The World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after more than 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe. In what Germany described as the …
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N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad’s interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby has urged Mali’s military junta to reconsider its decision to withdraw from a five-nation military force fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel region. Malian authorities announced the decision on Sunday, blaming the lack of progress in the fight against militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic …
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By MacDonald Dzirutwe LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria plans to set up a healthcare fund to cover up to 83 million poor people who cannot afford premiums for insurance schemes, President Muhammadu Buhari said at the signing of a universal health coverage law. Nigeria, with its 200 million population, is struggling to reform its healthcare to …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Food rations for refugees and displaced people are being cut by up to half in parts of the Sahel due to a massive funding shortfall with millions set to go hungry as prices rise and climate shocks hit yields, U.N. agencies said on Friday. The U.N. humanitarian office (OCHA) estimates that some …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – As the international art world flocks to Dakar for the African art biennale, Senegalese artist Fally Sene Sow only has to look out the window to find inspiration in the chaotic street market outside his studio in the capital. Normally colourful and bustling, the area in Dakar’s Colobane district became much more …
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By Sisipho Skweyiya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Dripping with champagne, diamonds and catty dialogue, two made-in-Africa reality TV series have transfixed viewers on the continent, showcasing ritzy lifestyles that are a far cry from stereotypical images of African hardship. On Netflix’s “Young, Famous & African”, a group of music and showbiz celebrities from around the continent …
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists exploring the evolutionary origin of language have detected a vocal communication system among wild chimpanzees more complex and structured than previously known, with a dozen call types combined into hundreds of different sequences. The researchers made more than 4,800 recordings of vocalizations produced by members of three groups …
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