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May 09, 2023
Sudan Ethnic Clashes Kill at Least Sixteen

KHARTOUM - Clashes between ethnic groups in southern Sudan have killed at least 16 people and wounded scores more, prompting a regional night-time curfew, state media reported Tuesday.
May 09, 2023
Better Care Prevents Infant Deaths

PARIS - Providing simple and cheap healthcare measures to pregnant women - such as offering aspirin - could prevent more than a million babies from being stillborn or dying as newborns in developing countries every year, new research said on Tuesday.
May 09, 2023
Wagner Boss Mocks 'Fleeing Russians'

MOSCOW - The boss of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, accused a Russian military unit of fleeing positions near Bakhmut in Ukraine and said the state was incapable of defending its country.
May 09, 2023
Sudan Battles Displace Over 700,000

GENEVA - Heavy fighting in Sudan has displaced 700,000 people within the country since the middle of April, the United Nations said on Tuesday, adding the figure had doubled in a week.
May 09, 2023
Haiti Violence Kills Over 600

GENEVA - More than 600 people died in gang violence last month in Haiti, where the authorities did not have the capacity to protect civilians, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
May 09, 2023
'Starvation Cult' May Have Involved Organ Harvesting

NAIROBI - Autopsies on corpses found in mass graves linked to a religious cult in Kenya have revealed missing organs and raised suspicions of forced harvesting, investigators said, with a fresh round of exhumations set to resume Tuesday.
May 09, 2023
Sudan Conflict Amps Humanitarian Crises

Africa was already facing a deepening set of crises – from drought to floods and a growing list of armed conflicts – and now, according to an internal U.N. estimate obtained by Reuters, 5 million additional people in Sudan will require emergency assistance, half of them children.
May 08, 2023
US, UAE Farmer Climate Fund at $13 Billion

WASHINGTON — Funding for a global initiative aimed at creating more environmentally friendly and climate-resilient farming has grown to $13 billion, co-leaders the United States and the United Arab Emirates said Monday.
May 08, 2023
Branson Resuming 'Space Tourism'

WASHINGTON - Space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced Monday that it is resuming flights with a mission this month, its first in nearly two years, and the launch of commercial trips in June.
May 08, 2023
Sudan Fleers Stuck at Border

WADI HALFA, SUDAN - Amid the waves of displacement caused by the war in Sudan, many of the country's well-off have fled the capital Khartoum and embarked on an expensive and grueling road journey to the border with Egypt, 720 km to the north. There, paperwork holds them back.
May 08, 2023
US Faces Huge Cost Plugging Old Oil Wells

PARIS - The cost to secure thousands of inactive oil and gas wells in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico could top $30 billion, according to research published Monday weighing potential environmental damage against the estimated price tag.
May 08, 2023
Nigeria Tribunal Hears Election Challenges

ABUJA - A panel of five Nigerian judges on Monday sat for a pre-hearing session in a trial involving opposition leaders contesting the February presidential election won by the ruling All Progressives' Congress [APC] party.
May 08, 2023
SADC Troops Deploy to DRC

WINDHOEK - Southern African countries on Monday agreed to deploy forces to help quell violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where armed groups have terrorized civilians for decades.
May 08, 2023
Zimbabwe Journalist Beats Conviction

HARARE - Prominent Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga on Monday won an appeal against an "inciting violence" conviction she received for staging a silent protest.
May 08, 2023
Mali Junta June Constitution Vote Challenged

DAKAR - The military junta in Mali is facing fresh opposition to a June 18 referendum on a new constitution from a movement calling for elections and a quick return to civilian rule.
May 08, 2023
New Petro Find in Zimbabwe

HARARE - Australian oil and gas firm Invictus Energy announced Monday it has found light oil, gas and helium in remote northeastern Zimbabwe, a culmination of months of exploration.
May 08, 2023
Pirate-Kidnapped West Africa Ship Crew Freed

COPENHAGEN - Six crew members kidnapped by pirates last month from a Danish oil tanker off Congo have been rescued from Nigeria, the ship's owner said Monday.
May 08, 2023
Senegal's Sonko Skips Court

DAKAR - Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko failed to turn up on Monday for his own appeal in a defamation case that could jeopardize his run for president next year.
May 08, 2023
Senegal Youth Get 'Schooled' in Graffiti

DAKAR - Ibrahima Soumare carefully traces the outline of a handful of letters on a white piece of paper. Dissatisfied, he tosses the effort away and starts again drawing a piece of graffiti bearing the word "Top". "It's not easy, especially for a newbie such as myself," says Ibrahima.
May 08, 2023
No Progress in Saudi Sudan Peace Talks

RIYADH - Air strikes again shook Sudan's capital Monday while the latest truce talks in Jeddah have yielded no progress, with a Saudi diplomat saying both sides consider themselves "capable of winning the battle."

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