TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s powerful UGTT labour union on Saturday re-elected Noureddine Taboubi as its leader as it approaches a critical national turning point in which it may play a pivotal role. Taboubi, who has been UGTT leader for five years, has taken a cautious stance during the turbulent months since President Kais Saied seized …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – A member of Tunisia’s suspended parliament, Yassin Ayari, told Reuters that a military court on Friday sentenced him in absentia to 10 months in prison on charges of insulting the president and the army after he described the president’s move to freeze parliament as a military coup. President Kais Saied suspended the …
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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – The worst drought in decades has left Moroccan farmers facing what one industry official dubbed a “catastrophic year” that will force the government to hike grain imports and subsidies. Rainfall this year is 64% less than the average, further emptying reservoirs that were already reduced after years of less …
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By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s ruling military junta on Friday asked France to withdraw troops from its territory “without delay”, calling into question Paris’ plan for a four- to six-month departure and highlighting the breakdown in relations between the two countries. Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, a junta spokesman, said France’s decision on Thursday to …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – President Kais Saied on Friday extended Tunisia’s state of emergency until Dec. 31 of this year, the official gazette said. The North African country has been under a state of emergency since 2015 after an attack in which several presidential guards were killed. (Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
By Arshad Mohammed and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has halted nearly $160 million in U.S. aid to Burkina Faso after determining the January ouster of President Roch Kabore constituted a military coup, triggering aid restrictions under U.S. law, a State Department spokesperson told Reuters on Friday. The State Department made the …
By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali’s ruling military junta on Friday asked France to withdraw troops from its territory “without delay”, calling into question Paris’ plan for a four- to six-month departure and highlighting the breakdown in relations between the two countries. Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, a junta spokesman, said France’s decision on Thursday to withdraw …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Malawi has declared a polio outbreak after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe, the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Laboratory analysis showed the strain detected in Malawi was linked to one that has been …
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ABUJA (Reuters) -Some 17 people were feared dead after a fuel tanker and commuter bus collided in the southern Nigerian state of Ogun on Friday, the Federal Road Safety Corps said. Spokesperson Bisi Kazeem said the crash happened around 5:00 a.m. on Friday and that the number of fatalities may vary. “There was a head-on …
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – The leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party, Freeman Mbowe, has a case to answer on charges of plotting acts of terrorism against government officials, a court said on Friday, prolonging a trial that some see as political. In a decision read by Judge Joachim Tiganga, the court found that the …
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