OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Unidentified assailants killed 40 people and wounded 33 others in an attack on the army and volunteer defence forces in northern Burkina Faso, the government said in a statement on Sunday. The attack took place on Saturday in the village of Aorema near the town of Ouahigouya in the North Region, not far …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s electoral commission on Sunday halted announcement of results in Adamawa’s state governor election and said the declaration of Aisha Dahiru as the country’s first elected female state governor was null and void. Nigerians voted for state governors on March 11 but the election in Adamawa, a largely conservative Muslim state, was …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Clashes between Sudan’s main paramilitary group and the armed forces on Saturday killed at least 25 people, a doctors’ group said, in an apparent struggle for control amid the country’s halting moves toward elections after a military coup. The Sudanese Doctors’ Union said 183 people were wounded …
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) – A hijacked Singapore-registered oil tanker has been recovered and escorted to Abidjan port in Ivory Coast on Saturday, five days after it was captured by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, the Ivorian military said. On Tuesday, Singapore’s port authority said the tanker had been boarded by “unidentified persons” about 300 nautical …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s armed forces on Saturday dismissed any possibility of negotiations or dialogue with the country’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). There will be “no negotiations or dialogue until the dissolution of the paramilitary RSF”, the armed forces said on its Facebook page. Elements of RSF and the armed forces exchanged gunfire in …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Here are some facts about Sudan’s main paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, which said on Saturday it had taken control of the presidential palace and the country’s international airport in an apparent coup attempt. It accused the army of attacking first; the military said it was fighting back. * The RSF …
By Jorgelina do Rosario and Rodrigo Campos WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Zambia last week gave its bondholders a “concrete proposal” for the restructuring of some $3 billion in eurobonds, the ministry of finance and national planning said on Friday. “We continue to engage actively with our bondholders and proposals are being exchanged,” the ministry told …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s airports face two days of disruption from Monday as aviation workers stage a second strike this year in protest over working conditions and wages, unions said on Friday. The country’s aviation industry is facing problems, including poor facilities, jet fuel shortages that often ground domestic flights and a lack of foreign …
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By Joe Bavier WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Africa is struggling with the triple shock of rising debt burdens, an ongoing food crisis and climate change fallout and needs more help from international institutions and wealthy nations to cope, African finance ministers said on Saturday. Developing African economies were only beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic …
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By Michael Georgy (Reuters) – Sudan’s General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, rose from lowly beginnings to head a widely feared Arab militia that crushed a revolt in Darfur, winning him influence and eventually a role as the country’s second most powerful man, and one of its richest.On Saturday, fighting erupted between his Rapid …
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