CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Monday that the assistant administrative attache at its embassy in Khartoum has been killed amid fighting between rival military factions in the Sudanese capital. “Muhammad El Gharrawi, was killed as he was driving to the embassy to follow up the procedures of the evacuations of the Egyptians …
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By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street shuffled to a mixed close on Monday, with interest rate-sensitive momentum shares weighing on the Nasdaq and U.S. Treasury yields dipping as investors braced for a week of high-profile quarterly earnings and closely watched economic data. The benchmark S&P 500 and the Dow ended the session …
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ROME (Reuters) – Two Italian military planes on Monday evacuated 96 people out of Sudan, as Western, Arab and Asian nations rushed to get their citizens out of the African country amid an eruption of violence. The surge in hostilities between the military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group on April 15 has …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The UK has a military team in Sudan doing reconnaissance, Britain’s armed forces minister James Heappey said, as the government held an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss options to help around 4,000 Britons stuck in the North African country. Countries across the world have been rushing to get their citizens out …
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By Hereward Holland NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police have recovered 73 bodies, mostly from mass graves in a forest in eastern Kenya, thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves, a police officer said on Monday. The death toll, which has repeatedly risen as exhumations …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Zambia has sent a debt restructuring proposal to its official creditors, a spokesperson for the government’s advisors said on Monday. The country, which was the major sovereign casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and has been in default since 2020, said on Friday it would share a first fully-formed debt restructuring plan with …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African rand slipped on Monday as markets awaited economic data out of the U.S. later this week, which could influence the Federal Reserve’s rate-hiking cycle. At 1512 GMT, the rand traded at 18.1550 to the dollar, down 0.28% from its Friday close. The U.S. currency was last down 0.18% against a …
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JUBA (Reuters) – Around 10,000 refugees have entered South Sudan from Sudan in recent days fleeing fighting between the army and paramilitary forces, officials in South Sudan’s Renk County said on Monday. About 6,500 crossed the border on Saturday and another 3,000 on Sunday, and more were arriving on Monday, county commissioner Kak Padiet told …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s conflict between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has prompted foreign countries to race to extract their diplomats and citizens. Several countries evacuated nationals by air, while some went via Port Sudan on the Red Seaabout 800 km (500 miles) by road from Khartoum. This …
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By Aidan Lewis and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Fighting in Sudan since April 15 has killed hundreds of people, sparked a humanitarian crisis with thousands fleeing their homes and prompted foreign countries to evacuate their citizens for fear of an all-out civil war in an already unstable region. WHAT TRIGGERED THE VIOLENCE? Tension had …
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