WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is following “extremely disturbing accounts” of large numbers of people killed in a village in central Mali, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Sunday. Mali’s military said on Saturday that it had killed more than 200 Islamist militants in the latest clash in a month of escalating violence. …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – The M23 rebel group has declared a unilateral ceasefire after several days of clashes with the army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its spokesman said in a statement on Friday. The group said it was seeking dialogue with the government and that it had withdrawn its troops from the combat zone …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has repatriated to Algeria a man who was held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly two decades after being accused of conspiring with al Qaeda, the Department of Defense said on Saturday. The department identified the man as Sufiyan Barhoumi, a native of Algeria, and said his detention at the …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Mali’s military said it has killed over 200 Islamist militants in an operation in the centre of the West African country, the latest clash in a month of escalating violence. The strikes, carried out in late March by land and air troops, targeted the area of Moura which the military says is …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s interim president, Paul-Henri Damiba, said on Friday that the 36-month transition timeline to democracy could be revised if the security situation improves. The West African country is facing an insurgency by groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State which have killed thousands and displaced more than 1.7 million people. …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Twenty trucks carrying food aid entered territory controlled by Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigrayan forces on Friday, the United Nations said, the first small but concrete demonstration that a unilateral truce the government declared last week has improved aid access. It is unclear how much more aid might follow or how quickly. More than 90% …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s rand weakened against a stronger dollar on Friday, as accelerating wage growth in the United States and a lack of progress in Russia-Ukraine peace talks weighed on appetite for risky assets. At 1620 GMT, the rand traded at 14.6750 against the dollar, 0.49% weaker than its previous close. Talks between Russia …
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(Corrects to remove additional reporting credit, no change in text) By Paul Lorgerie BAMAKO (Reuters) -The United Nations peacekeeping force in Mali has deployed two units to the African country’s tri-border area with Burkina Faso and Niger to respond to a spate of civilian killings, it said on Thursday. A surge in attacks since early …
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By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian anti-terrorism police summoned the country’s main opposition figure for questioning on Friday, as a political crisis deepens in the wake of President Kais Saied’s move to dissolve parliament and impose one-man rule. Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Islamist Ennahda party and speaker of the dissolved …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s Free Constitutional Party will‮ ‬boycott any referendum on political changes and pledge to oppose it, said party leader Abir Moussa on Friday. President Kais Saied said late on Thursday he would not hold elections within three months after he dissolved parliament. Saied has previously said he will form a committee to …
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