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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A suicide bomb attack on local government headquarters injured the mayor of Mogadishu and several other officials on Wednesday, a relative of one of the victims told Reuters. “The blast injured many local officials including my cousin,” said Mohamed Abdullahi. “The Mogadishu mayor is also injured … A suicide bomber walked into the meeting hall and blew up himself.” Reporting by Abdi Sheikh;… Read More

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Private capital inflows are, on average, as important now to the economies of the world’s low-income countries as foreign development assistance, according to a study published on Wednesday by the Center for Global Development. In Africa, where most of those nations are located, the inflows have been bolstered by foreign direct investment (FDI) from China, which is… Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had imposed visa restrictions on Nigerians it said were involved in trying to undermine democracy in presidential and parliamentary elections this year. The department did not name the individuals or say how many were affected by the visa restrictions. President Muhammadu Buhari won a second term in February in… Read More

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroonian security forces moved into the capital’s central prison overnight to put down an uprising by inmates protesting at the government’s crackdown on the Anglophone separatist movement and poor conditions inside, inmates’ videos showed. Scores of people from Cameroon’s English-speaking regions have been arrested over the last two years during the conflict between the Francophone-dominated government and… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – South Sudan’s journalists’ union said on Tuesday that security agents had detained two of its members in the past two weeks. It said agents had detained Michael Christopher, the editor in chief of Arabic language daily newspaper Al Watan on July 17, and confiscated his passport while he prepared to board a flight to neighbouring Kenya. It… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya will seek the extradition of Paolo Porcelli, the Italian director of construction firm CMC di Ravenna, to face corruption charges related to the tenders for two dam projects, the director of public prosecutions told Reuters on Tuesday. “We have the Italian individual, he has not managed to present himself so we will be seeking his extradition… Read More

ABUJA (Reuters) – A Reuters photographer saw what appeared to be one dead body after clashes between Nigerian police and a group of Shi’ite Muslim protesters in the capital Abuja on Monday. Nigerian police tweeted that they were taking measures to bring the protest under control. The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) group has demonstrated regularly to demand the release… Read More

TUNIS (Reuters) – A Libyan warplane made an emergency landing on a road in the southern Tunisian town of Beni Khadash on Monday and its pilot has been detained, according to Tunisia’s state news agency TAP. The Tunisian Ministry of Defence said the pilot informed the authorities that he was forced to make the landing due to damage to his… Read More

BENGHAZI (Reuters) – At least seven fighters loyal to Libyan National Army (LNA) forces commanded by Khalifa Haftar were killed overnight in a drone strike in southern Tripoli, a military source said. Eastern-based LNA had downed a drone on Sunday in Tripoli’s southern suburb of Ain Zara, it said without elaborating. In the latest turmoil since the toppling of Muammar… Read More

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Six people are missing following an attack on an aid convoy in northeast Nigeria, an international aid organisation said on Friday with sources stating that it was carried out by Islamist insurgents who abducted survivors. Action Against Hunger in a statement said one staff member, two drivers and three other health workers are missing after Thursday’s… Read More