Africa
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Chad Militia Kills 2 Soldiers in Gold-Rich North
Clashes between the Chad military and militia in the north of the country left two soldiers dead and nine others wounded, the military said Thursday.
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Somalia Announces Presidential Elections for May Next Year
Somalia announced on Thursday that parliamentary and presidential elections would be held next year, despite an increasingly fractured political landscape and worries over mounting instability.
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Jihadists Kill 15 Troops, Five Militia Members in Nigeria
Grema Butari, a Mairari resident, said the fighters attacked the base around 2200 GMT, dislodged the troops after a “prolonged battle” and remained there until daybreak.
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Hundreds Rally in Somaliland After Trump Comments
Hundreds of people rallied in Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa on Wednesday, waving US and Somaliland flags, celebrating US President Donald Trump calling it “a totally different country”.
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12 Migrants Expelled from US Arrived in Burundi Late August: Lawyer, Sources
President Donald Trump’s administration has signed accords with countries in Latin America, Africa and the Pacific to accept foreigners who could not legally be expelled to their own countries.
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Ethiopian Forces Approach Eritrea Border Town: Militia, Resident
A foreign security source has estimated that between 5,000 and 8,000 Eritrean forces were deployed in Ethiopian territory to support the rebels but were also forced into an apparent retreat.A foreign security source has estimated that…
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Aliyekuwa Rais wa DRC, Joseph Kabila aunda muungano mpya na kundi la M23
Muungano huo ulitangazwa katika mkutano wa pamoja na waandishi wa habari uliofanyika nyumbani kwa Kabila jijini Goma, mji mkubwa katika eneo la mashariki mwa DRC lenye utajiri wa madini, ambao umekuwa ukidhibitiwa na waasi wa…
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Djibouti boat wreck leaves 139 migrants dead, 84 missing: UN
At least 139 migrants died, including 15 children, and 84 went missing when an overcrowded boat sank while heading from Djibouti to Yemen, a UN agency said Sunday.
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Ethiopian govt forces enter key Tigray town near Eritrea border
Ethiopian federal forces and their allies entered a key northern Tigrayan town near the Eritrean border without a fight, residents told AFP on Monday, after it was abandoned by rebels. Clashes erupted in late September…
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72 killed in airstrike on gold mine on Sudan-Egypt border: rights group
At least 72 workers were killed by airstrikes on a gold mine on the Sudan-Egypt border, a Sudanese rights group said on Sunday, after survivors described scenes of chaos in the mountainous region. The Emergency…
