ADDIS ABABA / CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have failed to reach agreement in a new round of talks organized by the African Union to regulate the flow of water from the giant Blue Nile hydroelectric dam built by Addis Ababa , the three countries said. A satellite …
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The president’s son, Karim Keita, announced his resignation as head of parliament’s defense committee amid public anger in the West African nation. At least 11 protesters died and 150 people were injured in days of clashes between Malian security forces and protesters who attacked government buildings during anti-government marches in …
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The 64-year-old woman, who has not been named, said she met Chukwuebuka Kasi Obiaku, 34, on Facebook, police spokesman Frank Mba said. He invited her to Nigeria under the “pretext of love and marriage”. The woman, a retired government worker, arrived in Nigeria from Washington, DC, in February 2019, and …
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Ebola is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with almost 50 known cases in a large region bordering the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergency expert, said Monday that 48 cases had …
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The eastern Libyan-based parliament passed a motion authorizing neighboring Egypt to directly intervene militarily in the country’s war if necessary to counter Turkey’s support for the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA). The corps in Tobruk supports renegade commander Khalifa Haftar, who fought a 14-month, ultimately unsuccessful campaign to …
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