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Sparring Somali leaders now at odds over expulsion of African Union envoy

7 Apr 2022 7 Apr 2022

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somalia’s prime minister on Thursday expelled the African Union representative because of “acts incompatible with his status” but the president rejected the order, signalling a new rift between the leaders of the Horn of Africa nation. The power struggle between Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble and President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed is widely seen …

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Jailed head of Sudan’s outlawed ex-ruling party to be freed -lawyer

7 Apr 2022 7 Apr 2022

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The jailed head of Sudan’s former ruling party is be freed, his lawyer told Reuters on Thursday, becoming the most senior figure from the deposed regime of Omar al-Bashir to have charges of crimes against the state dropped since a coup last October. Ibrahim Ghandour, who also served as foreign minister in …

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Congolese city turns its plastic problem into profit

7 Apr 2022 7 Apr 2022

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – In Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the thousands of plastic bottles thrown into the Ruzizi River routinely clog the hydropower station’s turbines, shutting it down for months at a time and plunging the city into darkness. But for Elie Mapenzi Matabaro, the city’s plastic problem is an …

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Exclusive-Draft Sudan deal seeks to cement military’s grip

7 Apr 2022 7 Apr 2022

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Factions aligned with Sudan’s military have drawn up a deal to form a transitional government that would cement the army’s control and bypass pro-democracy groups it shared power with before an October coup, according to a document seen by Reuters and three sources familiar with the agreement. The draft …

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Fasting protesters defy military rule in massive Sudan marches

7 Apr 2022 7 Apr 2022

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Despite high temperatures, tear gas, and a Ramadan fast, tens of thousands of Sudanese protesters marched in the capital Khartoum and more in towns across the country on Wednesday, marking the third anniversary of the fall of former President Omar al-Bashir and rejecting the recent power grab by the generals that ousted …

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Rights groups accuse Ethiopian regional forces of ethnic cleansing in Tigray

6 Apr 2022 6 Apr 2022

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Two leading human rights groups on Wednesday accused armed forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against ethnic Tigrayans during a war that has killed thousands of civilians and displaced more than a million. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a joint report that …

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Burkina Faso’s ex-president Compaore handed life sentence in absentia over Sankara murder

6 Apr 2022 6 Apr 2022

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the …

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Afreximbank sets up $4 billion trade fund to cushion against Ukraine-related shocks

6 Apr 2022 6 Apr 2022

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Afreximbank said on Wednesday it had set up a $4 billion trade finance programme to cushion economies and businesses on the continent against shocks arising from the war in Ukraine, that demand for financing already exceeds the amount. Cairo-headquartered Afreximbank said its Ukraine Crisis Adjustment Trade Financing Programme for Africa was approved …

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Tunisian president to impose new changes in voting in parliament elections

6 Apr 2022 6 Apr 2022

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Voting in Tunisian parliamentary elections that are expected to be held in December will take place in two rounds, and people will vote for individuals rather than lists as in previous elections, President Kais Saied said on Wednesday. Saied’s comments confirm that he is moving forward with political changes, although …

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Tap dreams: rural arid Africa sits on water it cannot reach

6 Apr 2022 6 Apr 2022

By Edward McAllister TATA BATHILY, Senegal (Reuters) – When the water well began to run low in this remote village in northern Senegal in 2010, the government drilled another one, fit with a shiny metal hand pump and a sign commemorating the investment. Today, it barely emits a trickle, residents say. Desperate in a sweltering …

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