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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The al Shabaab group linked to al Qaeda plans to target Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, the country’s intelligence agency warned on Tuesday. Violence by the group, which aims to topple the central government and impose its own severe version of Islamic law, has been an …

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By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) -A Rwandan appeals court on Monday upheld a 25-year jail sentence for Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the movie “Hotel Rwanda” sheltering hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide, rejecting a bid to extend it to life in prison. Rusesabagina, 67, was convicted in September on eight terrorism charges …

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s national state of disaster, in place for more than two years in response to COVID-19, will end from midnight local time on Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. The national state of disaster has been the government’s main mechanism for managing the pandemic. Removing it will do away with the vast majority …

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By Hereward Holland BANANA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Each year Christian Ndombe and other park rangers scour the beaches of Democratic Republic of Congo’s vanishing coastline for turtle nests, bringing the eggs to a hatching centre where they are incubated for eight weeks. Rising sea levels and erosion have consumed almost a quarter …

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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The first trial addressing atrocities in Darfur opens at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, nearly 20 years after the Sudanese region was racked by widespread violence that left hundreds of thousands dead. Suspected former Janjaweed militia leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman faces 31 counts of …

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JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir and his vice president, Riek Machar, have agreed to resume talks about integrating their rival forces under a unified command after weeks of escalating conflict between the sides. Kiir and Machar’s forces signed a peace agreement in 2018 that ended five years of civil war. But implementation …

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