By Aidan Lewis and Khalid Abdelaziz CAIRO (Reuters) – Shooting their way through truces, Sudan’s warring factions have shown the limited leverage the United States, Saudi Arabia and other foreign powers have in ending a two-month conflict that is driving the nation deeper into disaster. Neither the army nor the paramilitary Rapid Response Forces (RSF)…
(Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebels allegedly executed scores of villagers and militia members between November and April and buried their bodies in mass graves, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, accusing Rwanda of backing the group. The Tutsi-led M23 staged a major offensive in Congo’s restive east last year, triggering an…
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African business confidence fell slightly in May, with lower trade volumes, fewer tourists and a weaker rand exchange rate weighing on sentiment, data showed on Wednesday. The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) business confidence index dropped to 106.9 in May from 107.1 in April. SACCI said in a…
By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – The death toll from an overloaded boat that capsized in a remote part of Nigeria’s north central region has risen to more than 100, police and officials said on Wednesday, in one of the worst such disasters in recent years. The wooden boat was ferrying people to Kwara…
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The death toll from a Kenyan starvation cult crossed 300 on Tuesday after authorities exhumed more bodies in a forest, in one of the worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. Authorities say the dead were members of the Good News International Church, led by Paul Mackenzie, who is accused of ordering his…
GENEVA (Reuters) – Nearly 3,800 people died on migration routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa last year, the highest number recorded there since 2017, according to data published on Tuesday by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The United Nations migration agency’s Missing Migrants Project (MMP) recorded 3,789 deaths in 2022…
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Veteran Cameroonian opposition leader John Fru Ndi, who for decades fought to topple long-standing president Paul Biya at the ballot box, has died aged 81, his party said. Fru Ndi, who dominated the opposition in the Central African country for a generation and was arrested and kidnapped for his politics, had been…
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia is preparing an alternative proposal to put to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after President Kais Saied rejected the terms of a $1.9 billion loan agreement negotiated last year, a senior government official said. Talks on the bailout have been stalled since October when Tunisia and the IMF reached a preliminary…
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Thousands of Sudanese refugees who fled to Chad to escape fighting in their country could be cut off from humanitarian and medical aid during the approaching rainy season, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Monday. More than 100,000 people have fled across the border to Chad since conflict broke out…
By Nayera Abdallah and Nadine Awadalla CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt is allocating 127.7 billion Egyptian pounds ($4.14 billion) for its sprawling food subsidy programme out of a 3 trillion pound budget for the financial year starting on July 1, a document seen by Reuters on Tuesday showed. Egypt, a nation of 105 million people, is…
