BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s federal prosecutor said on Thursday he had filed charges against a Gambian man suspected of participating in crimes against humanity, including the killing of a journalist, as a driver in the elite guard of former President Yahya Jammeh. The Federal Public Prosecutor (GBA) identified the suspect as Bai L., in line …
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By Garba Muhammad KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 200 gunmen were killed in the past three days in Nigeria’s central-northern state of Niger during a security operation to clear armed gangs from the area, a state commissioner said on Thursday. Gunmen have terrorised citizens in the north and northwest of the country and have …
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MADRID (Reuters) – About 350 migrants managed on Thursday to cross a high border fence separating the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco after a wave of migrants tried to climb for a second consecutive day, authorities said. They were just a fraction of the 1,200 migrants who tried to scale the six-metre …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Thursday it does not expect immediate impact on vaccine supply to Africa due to the fighting in Ukraine, and that Russia’s Sputnik COVID-19 vaccines were a minimal component of imports to the continent. “In the short term, there will be very little impact on the vaccine …
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – On a tree-lined, unpaved road in Somalia’s capital, people duck out of their homes to stare in awe at an unusual sight: two young men atop white horses, racing neck and neck, in training for what would be the city’s first horse races in decades. Slowly improving security has …
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CONAKRY (Reuters) – At least 18 people were killed when an informal gold mine collapsed on Monday in Gaoual, in western Guinea, the government spokesman said on Thursday. (Reporting by Saliou Samb; Writing by Nellie Peyton; Editing by Alison Williams)
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s deputy head of state said on Wednesday his country had no problem with Russia or any other country opening a naval base on its Red Sea coast, provided it posed no threat to national security. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti, deputy head of Sudan’s sovereign council, was speaking …
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) -Libya’s political crisis looked set to worsen on Thursday with a risk of a return to fighting or territorial division as a new government preparing to take office accused the incumbent administration of abducting two proposed cabinet members. Parliament has been preparing to swear in Fathi Bashagha’s government later on Thursday in …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The U.N. Human Rights Council has picked the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to lead a panel investigating violations of human rights in the conflict in northern Ethiopia, the council said on Wednesday. Ethiopian federal troops went to war with rebellious Tigrayan forces in November 2020. Since the …
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DOUALA, Cameroon (Reuters) – Seven people including a senior Cameroon government administrator and a mayor were killed in an ambush that involved an improvised explosive device (IED) on Wednesday in the country’s restive southwest, the region’s governor said. Bernard Okalia Bilai, Governor of the South West Region, said the Sub-prefect of Ekondo Titi was on …
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