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Uganda’s president to mediate in Burundi as regional alarm grows

YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 1, 20230

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni will fly to Burundi on Tuesday to mediate between government and opposition leaders, an official said, a personal...

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Saud al-Faisal, former Saudi Arabia foreign minister, dies

YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 20230

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s Prince Saud al-Faisal, who was the world’s longest-serving foreign minister with 40 years in the post until his retirement...

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Parents of Tunisia Gunman Say Their Son Was Brainwashed and Framed

YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 20230

The Sousse attack in June was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of modern Tunisia. The parents of Seifeddine Rezgui who killed 38 people...

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Buhari rejects purchase of N400m bulletproof cars

YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 20230

The fortified vehicles are valued at about N400 million. Buhari, after a proposal by the permanent secretary of the State House, Mr. Nebolisa Emodi, when...

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Why Afghan Taliban Are Ready to Talk

YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 20230

ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani’s high risk, high rewards gamble in reaching out to Pakistan in return for Pakistan delivering the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating...

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Pope Francis drinks coca leaf tea on South American tour

YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 20230

Main ingredient in cocaine given to pontiff in a brew of camomile and anise seeds on the plane to Bolivia as a remedy for altitude...

Africa World

Girl, 13, blows herself up near mosque in suspected Boko Haram attack

YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 20230

Teenager was only victim of blast in large city Kano, as Islamist militants increasingly use young girls and women as human bombs. A girl aged...

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Negotiator: Boko Haram asks Nigerian government to swap detainees for kidnapped Chibok girls

YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 20230

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists are offering to free more than 200 young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding school in the...

Business

Entrepreneur eyes cafes in West to profit from African coffee

YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 1, 20230

By Edith Honan NAIROBI (Reuters) – Andrew Rugasira has worked for more than a decade to sell coffee in a way that will be more...

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Ghana’s ruling party reclaims parliamentary seat in by-election

YoopyaJuly 8, 2015May 31, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 8, 2015May 31, 20230

By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s ruling party reclaimed a parliamentary seat from the main opposition on Tuesday in a closely contested by-election seen...