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Death toll from east DR Congo floods more than doubles to over 400

May 8 (Reuters) - The death toll from floods that devastated two villages in east Democratic Republic of Congo last week has more than doubled to 401, the provincial governor…

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Fighting in Khartoum as mediators seek end to Sudan conflict

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Fighting could be heard in south Khartoum on Sunday as envoys from Sudan's warring parties met in Saudi Arabia for talks that international mediators hope will bring…

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Sudan’s warring parties to meet for talks in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, May 6 (Reuters) - Sudan's warring parties were set to meet on Saturday in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah for talks, Riyadh and Washington said, as international…

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UNHCR calls on governments not to return people to Sudan

GENEVA, May 5 (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday called on governments to allow civilians fleeing Sudan into their territory and not to send them back…

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Tunisia facing unprecedented migration crisis as bodies wash ashore

By Tarek Amara Unprecedented number of migrants leaving Tunisia Violent confrontations at sea between migrants and Coastguards Hundreds of bodies wash up on shore, filling morgues SFAX, Tunisia (Reuters) -…

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Heavy fighting in Khartoum as power struggle rages

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM, May 4 (Reuters) - Fierce fighting could be heard in central Khartoum on Thursday as the army tried to push back the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces…

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South Africans call for UK to return diamonds set in crown jewels

JOHANNESBURG, May 4 (Reuters) - Some South Africans are calling for Britain to return the world's largest diamond, known as the Star of Africa, which is set in the royal…

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Sudan battles risk exodus of 800,000 people – UN

The United Nations warned on Monday that 800,000 people may flee Sudan as rival military factions battled in the capital despite a supposed ceasefire and foreign states wound down evacuations.…

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Sudan conflict shows no sign of easing, Sudanese brace for more violence

Sudanese expect more bloodshed, despite ceasefire Conflict enters third week, hundreds killed Figting focused on capital Khartoum, Darfur By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM, May 1 (Reuters) - Sudanese braced for more…

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Tunisia’s tourism revenues jump 60.3% in 2023 – Central Bank

(Reuters) - Tourism revenues in Tunisia reached 1.18 billion dinars ($389 million), as of April 20, 2023, up 60.3%, compared with the same period of 2022, according to Tunisia's state…

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Sudan fighting continues; ceasefire set to end at midnight

Latest ceasefire due to expire at midnight (2200 GMT) RSF says army launches attacks, army says RSF convoys destroyed Army says heavily armed wing of police force deployed By El…

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Fighting rages in Khartoum, but envoy sees sides more open to talks

U.N. envoy says sides more open to talks Air strikes and artillery heard in Khartoum Ex-PM sees 'nightmare' for world if conflict not stopped By El Tayeb Siddig and Nafisa…

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Battles make Sudan’s capital ‘hell’ despite truce pledges

Strikes by air, tanks and artillery shook Sudan's capital Khartoum and the adjacent city of Bahri on Friday, witnesses said, even though the army and a rival paramilitary force agreed…

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UPDATED: Sound of air strikes echoes in Khartoum as US pushes for longer truce

72-hour ceasefire due to expire on Thursday Army says it gave initial approval to African proposal No comment from paramilitary RSF Britain warns may not be able to evacuate more…

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Sudan’s Bashir whereabouts unknown after associate’s prison escape

Sudan's toppled leader Omar al-Bashir had been moved from Kober prison to a military hospital in the Sudanese capital before heavy fighting broke out there on April 15, two sources…

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Tunisia morgues running out of space

TUNIS (Reuters) Tunisia said its morgues are running out of space and authorities are struggling to contain a surge in crossings. Coastguards have pulled the bodies of at least 70…

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Germany ends Sudan evacuations, 700 people flown out; Evacuated Turks arrive in Istanbul

BERLIN, April 25 (Reuters) - Germany has ended its operation to evacuate people from Sudan, with over 700 people flown out of the country, including around 200 German citizens, the…

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Sudan fighting resurges as UN envoy says ceasefire partly holding

Fighting between army and RSF despite truce Official wanted by ICC leaves prison as conditions worsen Food, water, medicine fuel shortages 'extremely acute' -UN By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) -…

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Dozens of bodies float ashore in Libya after migrant boats sink

At least 57 bodies have been washed ashore after two migrant boats sank in the Mediterranean off different towns in western Libya, a coast guard officer and an aid worker…

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Britain begins ‘large-scale’ evacuation of its nationals from Sudan

The British government said it had launched a large-scale evacuation of its citizens from Sudan on Tuesday, after the North African country's warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire.Britain said military flights…

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Italy touts money for reforms as EU discusses upheaval in Tunisia

Italy offered Tunisia a prospect of money in exchange for economic and political reforms as European Union foreign ministers discussed on Monday how to respond to growing instability in a…

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Italy touts money for reforms as EU discusses upheaval in Tunisia

By Gabriela Baczynska and John Irish BRUSSELS/PARIS, April 24 (Reuters) - Italy offered Tunisia a prospect of money in exchange for economic and political reforms as European Union foreign ministers…

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Number of bodies exhumed from suspected Kenyan cult graves increases

NAIROBI, April 24 (Reuters) - Kenyan police have recovered 58 bodies from mass graves in the Shakahola forest in eastern Kenya, thought to be followers of a Christian cult who…

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EU will keep pushing for settlement in Sudan, Borrell says

LUXEMBOURG, April 24 (Reuters) - The European Union will keep working for a political settlement to the conflict in Sudan despite the recent evacuation of diplomatic staff and other EU…

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UPDATED: First German military plane with 101 evacuees from Sudan lands in Berlin

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir U.S. evacuates staff in operation from Djibouti UK says armed forces got its embassy staff out Fierce battles have continued during Eid holiday Many…

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With AI drones and data, Tunisia’s start-ups battle water crisis

Tunisia is suffering fourth consecutive year of drought Tech entrepreneurs build tools to help struggling farmers Water experts say country must do more to tackle drivers By Menna A. Farouk…

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Sudan’s conflict and what worries neighbours, the U.S. and others

(Reuters) - A conflict raging in Sudan is rattling neighbouring countries and worrying the United States and others for reasons ranging from concern about shared Nile waters and oil pipelines…

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The struggle for power in Sudan

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The following outlines the struggle for power in recent years in Sudan, where clashes erupted a week ago between the military and the country's main paramilitary force:…

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Foreign nationals to be evacuated from Sudan, fighting continues despite ceasefire

KHARTOUM, April 22 (Reuters) - Sudan's army said on Saturday it had agreed to help evacuate foreign nationals as sporadic gunfire and air strikes echoed across Khartoum despite promises by…

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U.S. military prepares options for possible Sudan evacuation

By Daphne Psaledakis and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing options to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Sudan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said as the Biden…

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Libya’s bitter divisions split Eid holiday

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyans are celebrating Islam's Eid al-Fitr holiday - and ending their month-long Ramadan fast - on different days this year because of bitter political splits that…

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Little let-up in Khartoum fighting despite Sudan truce declaration

Countries unable to evacuate foreign citizens Army, RSF say they agree to three-day truce WHO says more than 400 people killed By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM, April 22…

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Marburg cases rise to sixteen in Equatorial Guinea

DAKAR, (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea has confirmed 16 positive cases of Marburg disease since the beginning of the outbreak, the country's health ministry said. Marburg virus disease is a viral…

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US to send additional troops to Djibouti in case of Sudan evacuation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is preparing to send a large number of additional troops to its base in Djibouti in case of an eventual evacuation from Sudan, a…

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UPDATED: Shootouts in Sudan capital on Eid holiday, army moves in on foot

Army deploys on foot in Khartoum UN push for Eid holiday ceasefire appears to fail Countries unable to evacuate foreign citizens Up to 20,000 cross border into neighbour Chad By…

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Over 50,000 Christians killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists

Over 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since the outbreak of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009, a newly-released report published by a Nigerian non-governmental organization has revealed.…

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Russia’s private Wagner Group denies it is operating in Sudan

(Reuters) - The Russian private military Wagner Group denied it was operating in Sudan and said it had nothing to do with battles rocking the giant impoverished African state. Western…

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Belgian EU official shot in Sudan

Wim Fransen, the head of the EU’s humanitarian agency in Sudan, was shot amid fighting in the country’s capital Khartoum on Tuesday, a European Commission spokesperson said. The spokesperson confirmed…

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UPDATED: Tunisian judge orders jail for Ennahda party leader Ghannouchi

By Tarek Amara TUNIS, April 20 (Reuters) - A Tunisian investigative judge ordered on Thursday the imprisonment of Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of main opposition party Ennahda and a prominent…

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What’s behind Sudan’s crisis?

By Aidan Lewis and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Fighting has erupted in Sudan's capital Khartoum and at other sites across the country as powerful rival military factions battle for…

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West Africa faces acute food shortages with thousands near famine, say UN agencies

DAKAR (Reuters) - Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year high spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and high…

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Rival factions defy ceasefire to bombard Sudan’s capital, Japan plans evacuation

Defence ministry HQ and airport focus of fighting At least 270 people killed, 2,600 injured - ministry US-brokered 24-hour ceasefire push fails Power struggle has dashed transition to democracy Japan…

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Heavy gunfire quickly shatters Sudan truce pushed by US

By Khalid Abdelaziz, Nafisa Eltahir and Humeyra Pamuk Military action in air, on ground despite truce pact Truce was meant to enable humanitarian relief efforts Factional fighting derailed push for…

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Sudan ruling council declares rival faction as ‘rebels’, battles unrelenting

Sudan's army chief has branded the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces a rebellious group and ordered it be dissolved, as the faction battled the army in deadly violence that derailed a…

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Turkey, Tunisia banks most at risk from tighter financing conditions – S&P Global

LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - Tighter global financing conditions are putting pressure on emerging market banking systems, with those in Turkey and Tunisia most at risk, ratings agency S&P Global…

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Sudan’s army pounds paramilitary bases with air strikes in power struggle

Sudan's army appears to gain upper hand, witnesses say 59 civilians and scores of fighters killed in clashes UN food agency says 3 employees killed, halts operations By Khalid Abdelaziz…

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Sudan military rivals fight for power, many civilians killed

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM, April 16 (Reuters) - Sudan's military launched air strikes on a paramilitary force's base near the capital in a bid to reassert control…

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Turkey, Egypt agree to cooperate more closely on Libya

Ankara and Cairo will cooperate more closely regarding Libya, where they back opposing sides, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, marking another step in the rapprochement between the two…

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Death toll from migrant boat disaster off Tunisia rises to 25

By Tarek Amara TUNIS, April 13 (Reuters) - Tunisia's coastguard has recovered 15 more bodies of migrants, bringing the death toll from a shipwreck off Tunisia to 25, a security…

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Syria, Tunisia to exchange ambassadors, end decade of estrangement

BEIRUT, April 12 (Reuters) - Syria and Tunisia will reopen their respective embassies, the two countries said on Wednesday, almost a decade after Tunis severed ties to protest at a…

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At least 20 migrants missing after a boat sinks off Tunisia

TUNIS, April 8 (Reuters) - At least 20 African migrants were missing on Saturday after their boat sank off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a…

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Gunmen kidnap 80, including children, in northwest Nigeria

By Ardo Hazzad BAUCHI, Nigeria, April 8 (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted at least 80 people, mostly women and children, in Nigeria's Zamfara state, a hotspot for kidnappings for ransom by…

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Congo sentences six to life in prison for Italian envoy’s death

By Sonia Rolley Envoy Luca Attanasio killed in 2021 Five men arrested, one at large East Congo riven by violence for decades KINSHASA (Reuters) - A Democratic Republic of Congo…

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Tunisian president rejects IMF ‘dictats’, says public peace not a game

TUNIS, April 6 (Reuters) - Tunisia's president on Thursday gave his clearest rejection yet of the terms of a stalled $1.9 billion IMF bailout package when he said he would not accept "diktats" and…

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EPA’s Eye In The Sky: Lunda Norte, Angola

An aerial view of the diamond mines in the province of Lunda Norte, Angola. Photo: EPA-EFE/AMPE ROGERIO

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Tunisia introduces water quota system

TUNIS, March 31 (Reuters) - Tunisia on Friday introduced a quota system for potable water and banned its use in agriculture until Sept. 30 because of drought, the agriculture ministry…

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Tunisia cuts off water supply at night amid severe drought

Tunisian authorities have started cutting off drinking water at night in areas of the capital and other cities, residents said, in what appears to be a bid to reduce consumption…

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