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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday that a national dialogue aimed at uniting the country after last year’s election would continue without his party’s main coalition partner. The Democratic Alliance (DA), the second-biggest party in the coalition government after Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC), pulled out of the process last week …

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(Reuters) -Congo’s government and Rwanda-backed rebels said on Thursday they would send delegations back to Qatar for peace talks, as Washington pushes for an end to fighting that could help unlock billions in mining investments. M23 holds more territory than ever before in eastern Congo after staging a lightning advance earlier this year. The fighting, …

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By Will Dunham (Reuters) -DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing evidence of the ties between two great cultures of the period, with a fifth of his genetic ancestry traced to Mesopotamia. Although based on a single genome, the …

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PARIS (Reuters) -South Africa has reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on two poultry farms in the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Wednesday. The cases were the first in South Africa since September last year, Paris-based WOAH said in a notification. South Africa’s poultry sector …

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KAMPALA (Reuters) -A military helicopter from the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia that crashed at the airport in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday belonged to Uganda’s military, the military’s spokesperson said. Felix Kulayigye said three of the helicopter’s eight occupants had survived, while a fire that was burning after the crash was being put …

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By America Hernandez PARIS (Reuters) -French utility Engie has completed Africa’s largest wind farm four months early, it said on Tuesday, as it targets the Middle East and North Africa as a priority region for future renewables growth. The 650 megawatt (MW) Red Sea Wind Energy project in Egypt project can power more than a …

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