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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A leading Sudanese politician was arrested on Thursday as protests raged in the capital Khartoum for the seventh month against military rule, with tear gas and heavy security force deployment. A military coup in October effectively ended a 2019 power-sharing deal between generals who overthrew President …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has determined that Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” sheltering hundreds of people during the African nation’s 1994 genocide, has been “wrongfully detained,” the State Department said on Thursday. Rusesabagina, 67, was sentenced last September to 25 years in prison over eight terrorism charges tied to an …

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(Corrects paragraph 17 to say a senior police official (not the Police chief) was sanctioned by the U.S.) NAIROBI (Reuters) -The soldier son of Uganda’s long-serving President Yoweri Museveni is signalling his readiness to take over his father’s job, with comments on global affairs from Ukraine to Ethiopia and birthday festivities akin to political rallies. …

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A new case of wild polio found in Mozambique is very similar to a case previously reported in Malawi, the acting director of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. “When sequenced, that particular case (in Mozambique) had very close similarities to the case that had been reported …

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By Sisipho Skweyiya HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (Reuters) – Semakaleng Mathebula fires up the burner, aims a giant blue-orange flame toward a multicoloured balloon and watches as it fills with hot air and begins to lift off the ground. The 27-year-old is South Africa’s first Black hot air balloon pilot, and one of few women participating …

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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos said on Wednesday it will ban motorcycle taxis from operating in most of the traffic-clogged city, removing a popular mode of transport for residents. Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the ban, the second in just over two years, would come into force from June, adding that the …

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