BAMAKO (Reuters) – Around two dozen soldiers and at least five civilians were killed when militants attacked a military camp and a village in central Mali on Tuesday, a local official said. The attack took place in a rural commune of Mali’s south-central Segou Region on Tuesday afternoon. Armed assailants stormed the village of Farabougou …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak won a vote in parliament on Tuesday over a bill which he hopes will allow Britain to send asylum seekers who arrive illegally in Britain to Rwanda. Last month the British Supreme Court declared the policy unlawful and Sunak hopes the new legislation, when passed, …
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By Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s staple maize harvest is expected to halve to 1.1 million tons in 2024 due to an El Nino-induced drought, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said on Wednesday, flagging a huge grain deficit that threatens food security in poor households. The southern African country requires about 1.8 million tons of …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – One of the main opposition candidates for Congo’s presidential election next week, Moise Katumbi, suspended part of his campaign on Wednesday after violent clashes at one of his election rallies. Live rounds were fired and several people were injured as Katumbi addressed supporters in the coastal town of Moanda on Tuesday, marking …
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By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair plans to boost its summer traffic in and out of Morocco by a third in 2024 and fly 9 million passengers throughout the year, reflecting the “huge potential” of its sole African destination, a senior executive said on Wednesday. The low-cost pioneer, Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers, …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Mozambique has signed an accord with a consortium led by French power giant EDF to build the new $5 billion Mphanda Nkuwa hydropower project, the government said on Wednesday, as it seeks to harness energy from one of Africa’s largest rivers. The dam and hydropower plant will be built along the …
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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Somali reporter Abdalle Ahmed Mumin was doubly distressed when he heard that a colleague had been abducted by masked gunmen at the University of Mogadishu on the morning of Aug. 17. A fellow journalist was missing and Mumin – the chairman of the Somali Journalists Syndicate – had little …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian military court on Wednesday handed down a one-year suspended jail sentence on Chaima Issa, a prominent opponent of President Kais Saied, in what the opposition said was part of a broader crackdown on dissent. Issa was charged with inciting the army to disobey and insult the president, …
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By Bhargav Acharya and Tannur Anders JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African inflation slowed for the first time in four months in November thanks to cooling fuel prices which overpowered still-rising food costs. Headline consumer inflation fell to 5.5% year on year in November from 5.9% in October, data from the statistics agency showed on Wednesday, …
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FREETOWN (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s Court of Appeal has ordered the arrest of the opposition candidate who was runner-up in presidential elections this year for suspected corruption linked to the sale of government shares in a mining company, it said in a statement. Samuel Kamara was the candidate for the opposition All People’s Congress Party …
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