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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta is due to open a new $1.5 billion Chinese rail line on Wednesday linking the capital Nairobi to the Rift Valley town of Naivasha, despite delays in establishing an industrial park there to drive freight traffic. The extension links to the $3.2 billion line between the port of Mombasa and Nairobi that opened… Read More

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A group of Russian journalists who investigated the activities of a secretive group of Russian mercenaries in Africa and the Middle East have been subject to a campaign of physical threats and harassment, their editor-in-chief said. “Proekt,” an independent Moscow-based online news outlet which specialises in investigations, began to publish a series of articles in March looking… Read More

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Four unidentified bodies have been found in Congo amid the wreckage of a plane that had been carrying staff of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi, the government said on Tuesday. The cargo plane, believed to have been carrying around eight passengers and crew, crashed last Thursday in Democratic Republic of Congo’s central province of Sankuru. The Antonov… Read More

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Four unidentified bodies have been found in Congo among the wreckage of a plane that had been carrying staff of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi, the government said on Tuesday. The cargo plane, believed to have been carrying around eight passengers and crew, crashed last Thursday in the central Congo province of Sankuru. Reporting by Stanis Bujakera; Writing… Read More

TUNIS (Reuters) – An attacker killed a French citizen and wounded a soldier with a knife in northern Tunisia on Monday, state media quoted the Interior Ministry as saying. Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Hayouni was quoted on state news agency TAP as saying police knew the identity of the assailant, a 28-year-old man with a criminal record, but he did… Read More

TUNIS (Reuters) – Two Tunisian radio stations reported on Monday that a French citizen was killed and a soldier injured in a stabbing incident in the city of Bizerte in northern Tunisia earlier on Monday. Mosaique FM cited a security source and Shems FM cited its own correspondent, but no official was immediately available to comment on the reports. Reporting… Read More

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least three mortars were fired at Mogadishu’s international airport on Sunday, injuring six people, a diplomatic source said. The airport serves also as compound for several embassies as well as the United Nations and African Union missions. A U.N. source in Mogadishu confirmed the attack but could not say how many people had been injured. Writing… Read More

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Gunmen killed about 15 people in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso during prayers on Friday evening, a security source and a local official told Reuters. The gunmen entered the mosque in the village of Salmossi in the Oudalan region bordering Mali and opened fire, the two sources said on Saturday. Others were seriously… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least ten Kenyan police were killed when their vehicle struck a homemade bomb near the border with Somalia on Saturday, according to a police report seen by Reuters. Police believe the device, for which no one immediately claimed responsibility, was planted by Islamist group Al Shabaab, the report said. Police said in a separate statement that several officers… Read More

HARARE (Reuters) – A Zimbabwean court has ordered doctors on a 40-day strike over pay to return to work within 48 hours, after a ruling that their boycott was illegal. The Labour Court’s judgment late on Friday says that members of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA), which represents junior and middle level doctors in public hospitals, should cease their… Read More