By Manvi Pant BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian shares on Monday are expected to start on a slightly weaker note in the holiday-truncated week as earnings season draws to a close, ahead of domestic retail inflation data due later in the day. India’s GIFT Nifty on the NSE International Exchange was down 0.28% at 19,432 at 7.58 a.m. IST. …
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By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) – The United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Mali on Sunday said it had sped up a planned withdrawal from the town of Ber in northern Mali due to worsening security, as fighting in the area raised fears of a revival of a separatist uprising. Over the past few days, the …
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(Reuters) – Violence flared in the western Sudanese city of Nyala and elsewhere in the state of South Darfur on Sunday, witnesses said, threatening to engulf the region in Sudan’s protracted war. The conflict has brought daily battles to the streets of the capital of Khartoum, a revival of ethnically targeted attacks in West Darfur, …
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By Felix Onuah and Sali Samb ABUJA/CONAKRY (Reuters) -Coup leaders in Niger are open to diplomacy to resolve a standoff with West Africa’s regional bloc, a group of senior Nigerian Islamic scholars said on Sunday after meeting the junta in Niamey. Their visit comes as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) explores its …
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(Reuters) – Tanzanian police have arrested a lawyer and an opposition politician and accused them of incitement and planning to organise nationwide demonstrations aimed at bringing down the government. Â Â Â The police arrested lawyer Boniface Anyasile Mwabukusi and Mpaluka Nyagali on Saturday, spokesperson David Misime said in a statement. Philip Mwakilima, a lawyer representing the …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) -West Africa’s ECOWAS bloc aims to send a parliamentary committee to Niger to meet coup leaders who seized power last month, a spokesperson said on Saturday, part of a last ditch regional effort to restore civilian rule that includes religious leaders. Niger’s military last month imprisoned President Mohamed Bazoum and …
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(Reuters) – At least two people were killed, including an eight-month-old infant, and 13 rescued after a migrant boat capsized off Tunisia’s Gabes coast, state radio said on Saturday. A search was underway for missing migrants, Radio Tunisienne added. (Reporting by Hatem Maher and Muhammad Al Gebaly; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
By Ardo and Hazzad BAUCHI (Reuters) – Seven people died after a mosque filled with worshippers caved in on Friday in Nigeria’s northern city of Zaria, in Kaduna state, with several others injured. Zaria Emirates council spokesman Abdullahi Kwarbai said the incident occurred as hundreds of faithful observed afternoon prayers at the city’s central mosque. …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Frontline doctors in Nigerian public hospitals on Friday ended a three-week strike to press for a pay rise after the removal of a subsidy on petrol, the doctors’ union said. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) said the decision to end the strike followed “a very fruitful meeting” …
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By Boureima Balima and Felix Onuah NIAMEY (Reuters) -Thousands of people gathered in Niger’s capital on Friday to demonstrate in favour of last month’s coup as regional leaders were considering military intervention to restore civilian rule. Since the July 26 military ouster of elected President Mohamed Bazoum, many Nigeriens have joined junta-organised rallies to show …
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