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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – The number of people forced to flee their homes in two regions of Burkina Faso besieged by ethnic and jihadist violence has increased more than six-fold since January to around 500,000, the United Nations and aid groups said on Friday. Attacks by Islamist militants as well as clashes between herding and farming communities have surged this year,… Read More

KINSHASA (Reuters) – A cargo plane carrying presidential staff crashed in eastern Congo on Thursday, and all eight passengers and crew are feared dead, a presidential adviser told Reuters on Friday. The plane, carrying President Felix Tshisekedi’s driver, a logistics manager and some soldiers, was headed from Goma to the capital Kinshasa and went off radar on Thursday afternoon, an… Read More

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan appointed a woman as the head of its judiciary on Thursday for the first time in the history of the Arab Muslim country, the ruling Transitional Sovereignty Council said. Supreme Court Judge Nemat Abdullah Khair was nominated by the judges’ professional association, which was part of a protest movement that helped oust veteran ruler Omar al-Bashir… Read More

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Thursday sanctioned three members of the Gupta family, friends of former South African President Jacob Zuma who are accused of influence-peddling, and their business associate for their involvement in alleged corruption. The three Gupta brothers are accused in South Africa of using their relationship with Zuma to profit financially and influence senior appointments.… Read More

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria is seeking $62 billion from oil companies under regulations that allow the government to revisit revenue-sharing deals on petroleum sales if crude prices exceed $20 a barrel, the attorney general told Reuters on Thursday. The government in Africa’s largest oil exporter relies on oil for some 90% of foreign exchange. Oil prices rose to more than… Read More

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Somali government is keeping some donor funds offshore and none of the ministries have completed last year’s accounts, the auditor general said in a report published on Wednesday. The critical audit comes as World Bank considers forgiving Somalia’s debt burden of $4.6 billion to help the government win greater access to international financing to tackle nearly… Read More

KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwanda’s government has deported an American pastor hours after his arrest for “disturbing public order”, officials said. Gregg Schoof was arrested on Monday and deported late that evening directly to the United States, Rwanda’s director general of immigration Francois Regis Gatarayiha told Reuters. He said Schoof’s visa had expired and he had requested several days to prepare… Read More

DAKAR (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s West Africa affiliate on Tuesday claimed responsibility for coordinated, deadly attacks last week on two army bases in central Mali, it said in a statement. Thirty-eight soldiers were killed and dozens others went missing during attacks on bases in Boulkessi and Mondoro, in some of the worst violence seen against the army this year. The… Read More

KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwandan police on Monday arrested an American pastor who was to hold a news conference in the capital and whose radio station in the country was shut down by authorities last year. Gregg Schoof was arrested for “disturbing public order,” police spokesman John Bosco Kabera told Reuters. Rwandan authorities last year closed Schoof’s radio station, Amazing Grace,… Read More

HARARE (Reuters) – Striking Zimbabwean doctors defied a government ultimatum to return to work on Monday, after rejecting a 60% pay rise offer they say is not enough to keep up with soaring prices of basic goods. The southern African nation’s economy is grappling with its worst crisis in a decade, with triple-digit inflation, rolling power cuts and shortages of… Read More