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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces killed 14 militants suspected in an attack on a police checkpoint in northern Sinai where at least eight policemen died, the interior ministry said in a statement received on Thursday. The deaths raise to 19 the number of militants killed since the attack near the North Sinai provincial capital of al-Arish early on Wednesday,… Read More

Khartoum (Reuters) – The deputy head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North rebel group has been detained, a spokesman for the movement said on Wednesday. Yasir Arman, had been living in exile and was sentenced to death in absentia over his actions in the group, but returned to Sudan recently. He was arrested by security forces, the spokesman said. Reporting… Read More

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Landslides after heavy rains in eastern Uganda have killed at least five people and dozens more are missing, the country’s Red Cross said on Wednesday. The Prime Minister’s office confirmed the death toll of five and said an unconfirmed number of people were missing. “There’s a team of Red Cross and OPM and local authorities on the… Read More

CAIRO (Reuters) – Militants attacked a checkpoint and killed eight security personnel on Wednesday in north Sinai where Egyptian forces have long been battling Islamists, state media said. Five militants also died, state TV and state news agency MENA reported, with some on the run. Egypt’s military and police launched a major security campaign against Islamic State or related jihadist… Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s highest court paved the way for the extradition to Burkina Faso of the brother of ex-Burkinabe president Blaise Compaore on Tuesday by rejecting Francois Compaore’s appeal. Police detained Francois Compaore at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in October 2017 on an international arrest warrant related to the 1998 murder of Norbert Zongo, who published Burkina… Read More

LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia has started rationing electricity to non-mining businesses, a move expected to hurt industrial production and commercial services, business groups said. The country began rationing power on Saturday to address a daily electricity deficit of 273 Megawatts (MW), said Henry Kapata, spokesman for state power utility Zesco. “If generation is maintained at the current level, Kariba dam… Read More

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will in the near future send 30 military personnel to Central African Republic where they will form part of a United Nations mission to help stabilise the country, Interfax news agency quoted a Russian foreign ministry official as saying. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in April on the despatch of the military contingent. Reporting… Read More

(Reuters) – At least 11 people were wounded by gunfire near a protest sit-in in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday, an opposition doctors’ committee said. Sudan’s main protest group blamed the violence on the Transitional Military Council (TMC), saying that it is part of a plan to violently clear the protests. “The killing and intimidation on Nile Street is… Read More

(Reuters) – At least 18 people were wounded in two car bomb explosions that targeted a military unit in Libya’s eastern coastal city of Derna, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky, a medical source and residents told Reuters early on Sunday. Residents said the car bombs targeted a military unit called Bulahati belonging to the eastern forces of… Read More

RABAT (Reuters) – Three Moroccan men admitted on Thursday to the killing of two Scandinavian backpackers in a grisly murder last December, saying they had committed the crime after attempting and failing to join the Islamic State. The bodies of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway were found on Dec. 17 near the village… Read More