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Mali’s army says 80 militants killed after coordinated attacks on its posts

1 Jul 2025

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali’s armed forces have killed 80 militants in response to a series of simultaneous and coordinated attacks on military posts across the country, according to a video statement released by the army on Tuesday. “The enemy suffered significant losses in every location where they engaged with the security and defense forces,” Souleymane Dembele, …

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Uganda to start blending ethanol with petrol from January

1 Jul 2025

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda will require fuel distributors to blend locally produced ethanol into all petrol sold in the country starting next January, the energy ministry said on Tuesday, a measure that could reduce the East African nation’s petroleum import bill. Uganda imports about $2 billion worth of petroleum products annually. It handed over exclusive rights …

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Angolans, Cape Verdeans want Portugal to return looted artefacts, poll shows

1 Jul 2025

By Catarina Demony (Reuters) -A majority of respondents in Angola and Cape Verde believe Portugal should apologise for its colonial past and return artefacts and other items looted during that era, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Pollsters from Lisbon’s Catholic University, in partnership with public broadcaster RTP and a commission commemorating the fall …

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Food supplies to some Sudan refugees could dry up within 2 months, WFP says

1 Jul 2025

GENEVA (Reuters) -Food aid to help Sudanese refugees in four neighbouring countries could end within the next couple of months without an urgent injection of new funding, a World Food Programme official said on Tuesday, warning of rising malnutrition levels. Over 4 million refugees have fled Sudan’s more than two-year civil war to seven neighbouring …

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Seven killed during Togo protests, civil society groups say

30 Jun 2025

LOME (Reuters) -Seven people were killed during anti-government protests in Togo last week, said human rights activists, who accused security forces of using “shocking violence” against protesters. The protests calling for the resignation of longtime leader Faure Gnassingbe amid what government critics describe as a cost of living crisis began last Thursday. Reuters witnesses saw …

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Tunisia court sentences Sonia Dhamani, a lawyer critical of the president, to 2 years

30 Jun 2025

TUNIS (Reuters) -A Tunisian court on Monday sentenced Sonia Dhamani, a prominent lawyer and critical voice of President Kais Saied, to two years, lawyers said, in a case rights groups say marks a deeping crackdown on dissent in the North African country. Dhamani’s lawyers withdrew from the trial after the judge refused to adjourn the …

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One dead, more missing after migrant shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa

30 Jun 2025

ROME (Reuters) -One woman died, two people were feared missing and 87 were rescued following a migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, a U.N. migration agency official said on Monday. Lampedusa lies between Tunisia, Malta and the larger Italian island of Sicily and is the first port of call for many migrants seeking …

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A second ally of Cameroon’s Biya enters presidential race

30 Jun 2025

YAOUNDE (Reuters) -Cameroon’s Tourism Minister Bello Bouba Maigari has accepted his party’s nomination to seek the presidency in an expected October election, with long-serving President Paul Biya yet to announce whether he plans to run for reelection. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT A former prime minister, Maigari, 78, has been a staunch ally of President Biya for …

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No injuries or pollution after explosion at oil tanker off Libya, says operator

30 Jun 2025

ATHENS (Reuters) -An oil tanker carrying about 1 million barrels of crude oil suffered an explosion off Libya on June 27 but no injuries or pollution were reported, a spokesperson for the operator TMS Tankers said on Monday. The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Vilamoura had left Libya’s Zuetina port and was en route to Gibraltar when …

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Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni, 80, to seek reelection

29 Jun 2025

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni has confirmed he intends to contest in next year’s presidential election, potentially extending his rule in the east African country to nearly half a century. In a post on the X platform late on Saturday Museveni said he had “expressed my interest in running for… the position of presidential …

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