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AL-ALIA, Tunisia (Reuters) – The annoyance among voters in the hilltop town of al-Alia shows the dilemma facing Tunisia’s moderate Islamist Ennahda party as it seeks to win Sunday’s parliamentary election after years of sharing power with the secular political elite. Ennahda’s fate will not only resonate in Tunisia. Its effort to chart a moderate path is being watched across… Read More

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Militants in northeastern Nigeria killed at least nine people in an attack on Sunday, sources told Reuters on Monday. It was the latest in a series of attacks in the northeast that has coincided with the Nigerian military’s implementation of a new strategy of withdrawing to “super camps” that the military says can be more easily… Read More

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Militants in northeast Nigeria killed at least nine people in an attack on Sunday, sources told Reuters on Monday. One military source and one resident in the town of Gubio in Borno state said the attack on the area began around 4:30 p.m. and lasted until 9 p.m. On Monday, Islamic State claimed the attack in… Read More

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Government-led talks to end a two-year-old separatist insurgency in Cameroon faltered before they began on Monday as separatists and opposition politicians boycotted the event. President Paul Biya initiated the week-long national dialogue in an effort to calm violence between militias and the army that has killed more than 1,800 people and displaced more than 500,000, according to… Read More

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Separate attacks hit a U.S. military base in the Somali town of Baledogle and a European military convoy in the Somali capital on Monday, a Reuters witness and a security source said. A Reuters journalist saw a seriously damaged armoured vehicle bearing a small Italian flag sticker in the capital of Mogadishu. It was unclear if there… Read More

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – At least 71 illegal migrants rescued after four days in distress at sea were brought to shore east of the Libyan capital Tripoli early on Sunday but then fled and no attempt was made to capture them, a navy official said. Libya is one of the main departure points for African migrants fleeing poverty and war to… Read More

DAKAR (Reuters) – A Senegalese combat helicopter from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic has crashed, killing three people, the mission head said on Friday. The crash occurred as the chopper was landing in the western town of Bouar and also resulted in one injury, MINUSCA chief Mankeur Ndiaye wrote in a tweet. MINUSCA has more than… Read More

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s political and economic environment is deteriorating, causing anxiety as hopes fade for a long-awaited improvement in people’s living conditions, a United Nations human rights envoy said on Friday. Many Zimbabweans are frustrated that the departure in November 2017 of longtime ruler Robert Mugabe, who died on Sept. 6 in Singapore, did not lead to a quick… Read More

GENEVA/LAGOS (Reuters) – Worsening violence has doubled the number of people displaced from northwest Nigeria to some 40,000 over the past four months, the United Nations said on Friday. The UN’s refugee agency said the turmoil had created a “new humanitarian emergency” that would require a fresh inter-agency fundraising effort of $35.5 million by the end of the year. UNHCR… Read More

KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwanda has received 66 asylum-seekers that were being held in a Libyan detention centre, the first of a group of 500 to be sent there under a new agreement with the United Nations to help resettle people detained while trying to reach Europe. Around 4,700 people seeking refuge are now estimated to be in custody in Libya,… Read More