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Nigeria’s consumer inflation falls for a second month in May

16 Jun 2025

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s headline inflation rate fell slightly for the second month in May, to 22.97% year-on-year from 23.71% in April, data from its statistics agency showed on Monday. Africa’s most populous country has been battling high inflation which soared to repeated 28-year peaks last year, spurred by President Bola Tinubu’s move …

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Kenya’s deputy police chief steps aside temporarily

16 Jun 2025

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya’s deputy police chief Eliud Lagat said on Monday he had temporarily stepped down from his position as investigations into the death of a detained blogger in police custody are underway. “I have today opted to step aside from the office of the Deputy Inspector General … pending completion of investigations,” Lagat said …

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Uganda leader signs law reintroducing military trials of civilians

16 Jun 2025

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed legislation that allows military tribunals to try civilians, parliament said on Monday, a move opposition leaders said violates a Supreme Court ruling.  Rights campaigners have long alleged that the government has used military courts to persecute political opponents of Museveni, who has been in power for almost …

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Hunger crisis deepens in global hotspots as famine risk rises, UN warns

16 Jun 2025

ROME (Reuters) -Extreme hunger is intensifying in 13 global hot spots, with Gaza, Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali at immediate risk of famine without urgent humanitarian intervention, a joint United Nations report warned on Monday. The “Hunger Hotspots” report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) blamed conflict, …

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Gunmen kill at least 100 people in Nigeria’s Benue state, Amnesty International says

15 Jun 2025

(Reuters) -At least 100 people have been killed in an attack by gunmen on a village in Nigeria’s central Benue state, Amnesty International Nigeria said Saturday. The attack took place from late Friday into the early hours of Saturday in the village of Yelewata, the group said in a post on social media platform X. …

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Kenyan blogger’s wife seeks answers after his death in police custody

14 Jun 2025

By Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) -When the policemen came for Albert Ojwang – the Kenyan blogger whose death in custody sparked protests this week and prompted a rare acknowledgement of police brutality by the president – his wife initially thought he would be safe. Unlike the dozens of political activists abducted by suspected security agents …

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Senior Kenyan policeman arrested over death of blogger in custody

13 Jun 2025

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan authorities arrested a senior policeman on Friday in connection with the death of a blogger in police custody last week, the police watchdog said, in a case that has sparked violent protests and shone a spotlight on police misconduct. The police apologised after initially claiming Albert Ojwang died by suicide in a …

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Egypt deports dozens more foreign nationals heading for march to Gaza

13 Jun 2025

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian authorities on Friday detained or deported more foreign nationals seeking to join a pro-Palestinian march to Gaza. Hundreds of international activists arrived in Egypt this week for the Global March to Gaza, an initiative aimed at pressuring Israel to end its blockade of the enclave. Organisers said on Thursday people from 80 …

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Goal to end AIDS by 2030 ‘more off-track’ after Trump cuts, UNAIDS head says

13 Jun 2025

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s cuts to HIV/AIDS programmes will further derail an already faltering plan to end the disease as a public health threat by 2030, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said on Friday. With 1.3 million new infections in 2023, according to the latest data, the world was already “off track,” …

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WHO warns of spread of cholera outbreak from Sudan to Chad refugee camps

13 Jun 2025

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization warned on Friday that cholera cases in Sudan are set to rise and could spread to neighbouring countries, including Chad, which hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan’s civil war in crowded conditions. The more than two-year-old war between the Sudanese army – which took …

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