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South African parties are gearing up for coalition talks as the governing ANC looks set to fall well short of a majority for the first time in 30 years of democracy

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South Africa heads for coalition as ANC support plunges https://t.co/g8RK0c9Yh5 https://t.co/2cSTO0x3LC

The man set to be Senegal's next president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has declined to say what role his party's jailed leader might play in any future government. "Why do we want to focus on just one person in a government when I have a coalition that includes more than 120 people?"

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From prison to palace: Faye's road to Senegal's presidency https://t.co/HfRXVCS09k https://t.co/ffUtJrpGHr

RT @Reuters: 🔊 Somali pirates have reappeared and they're piling pressure onto the global shipping crisis. Find out more on the Reuters Wor…

Somali gang members tell @Reuters they're taking advantage of the distraction provided by Houthi strikes to get back into piracy. "They took this chance because the international naval forces that operate off the coast of Somalia reduced their operations," a pirate financier said

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Somali pirates' return adds to crisis for global shipping companies https://t.co/7wPje1s6fb https://t.co/bH0JUclAFO

Sierra Leone has declared a nationwide curfew after the government said its security forces repelled an attack by unidentified gunmen on a military armoury in Freetown

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Sierra Leone declares nationwide curfew after attack on barracks https://t.co/695jxqM7UT https://t.co/Gi4oUOrVzs

Britain's Supreme Court ruled that the government's scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful because it could not be considered a safe third country. Judges agreed there were "substantial grounds for believing that asylum seekers would be at real risk of refoulement"

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UK's Sunak suffers major blow as Rwanda migrant scheme declared unlawful https://t.co/LKxCdog3dJ https://t.co/a1DGSwPQOc

RT @Reuters: EXCLUSIVE: The Canadian winner of gas rights on Congo's 'killer' Lake Kivu was awarded to the block despite failing key criter…

.@Reuters and @Bellingcat analyzed rare video of a young detainee summarily slain while in Nigerian military custody — a war crime, according to three legal experts https://t.co/EtBccepTj0 Here is how we did it

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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT While reporting last year's series, @Reuters received a video that appeared to show an execution-style killing by Nigerian soldiers. It showed a man in military fatigues taking a youth from the back of a pickup truck and shooting him dead https://t.co/DlVdpOQKvx

RT @JoeBavier: African governments want a 10 to 20-year extension of AGOA. But the US shouldn’t expect duty free access to the AfCFTA, says…

.@Reuters interviewed more than 120 people who fled an ethnic massacre in the West Darfur city of El Geneina. Satellite images reveal the scale of the destruction. Powerful reporting by @mokhbersahafi @McNeill_Tweets @bzohra and El Tayeb Siddig

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To give themselves cover from snipers, people buried the dead at night, putting multiple bodies in the same grave, survivors of an ethnic massacre in West Darfur told @Reuters. Satellite images reveal how cemeteries expanded after the violence erupted https://t.co/fBgbiQGl8N https://t.co/ksiuB7HHZ4

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame will be seeking to extend nearly a quarter of a century in power next year. "Yes, I am indeed a candidate," he told @jeune_afrique

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Rwanda's veteran president Kagame to seek re-election in 2024 https://t.co/5KjiDnLwgx https://t.co/BllM3l6yJm

The European Union executive temporarily suspended funding for the World Food Programme in Somalia, two senior EU officials told @Reuters , after a UN investigation found widespread theft and misuse of aid meant to avert famine

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Exclusive: EU temporarily holds back food aid in Somalia after UN finds widespread theft https://t.co/1CJjYU8mvf https://t.co/7hIZzoy0Rf

"They knew" - When hydrologist Abdul Wanis Ashour began researching the system of dams protecting the eastern Libya port town of Derna 17 years ago, the peril facing residents was already no secret, he told @Reuters

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Libya flood: fury that warnings went unheeded https://t.co/jStH47cAIX https://t.co/Y4APR1Pbqj

Journalist @StanysBujakera has been held in Congo since Friday regarding an article about the killing of a prominent opposition politician published by @jeune_afrique, the magazine says. Local and international rights groups have called his detention an attack on press freedom

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Congo journalist detained regarding Jeune Afrique article, magazine says https://t.co/e63q8jmDFO https://t.co/Y86STUBoQ9

Toxic cough syrup made and sold in India may have been the start of a global wave of contamination. Some drugmakers could not prove they even tested their products. Bereaved parents in Gambia, Uzbekistan and India are still waiting for justice https://t.co/yg53gStodW

A wedding celebration saved all the people of a Moroccan village during Friday's deadly earthquake, which destroyed their stone and mud-brick houses while they were enjoying traditional music in an outdoor courtyard https://t.co/PtXOsxechH

"Bodies are lying everywhere - in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings," Hichem Abu Chkiouat, eatern Libya's minister of civil aviation, told @Reuters by phone after visiting Derna. "I am not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared"

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Libya floods wipe out quarter of city, death toll passes 2,000 https://t.co/XqXCdSH2Ny https://t.co/HKiPFv9Gqe