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By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read Somalias newly-elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo addresses lawmakers after winning the vote at the airport in Somalias capital Mogadishu, on February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Supporters of Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and those opposed to the extension of his four-year term clashed on Sunday on the streets of the capital, residents said. The president signed a law in mid-April extending his mandate for...

2 Min Read Soldiers attend the state funeral of late Chadian President Idriss Deby in NDjamena, Chad, on April 23, 2021. Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo (Fixes syntax in paragraph 2) N’DJAMENA (Reuters) - Rebels in northern Chad are ready to observe a ceasefire and to discuss a political settlement after the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby last week, a rebel spokesman said on Sunday. The rebels, known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), came over...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read Service members of the Russian airborne forces board an Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane during drills at a military aerodrome in the Azov Sea port of Taganrog, Russia April 22, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia ordered its top army command to begin returning troops to their permanent bases inside the country from Friday, saying it had successfully completed a “snap inspection” of forces in its south and west, near the border with Ukraine, the RIA ne...

6 Min Read N’DJAMENA (Reuters) -Chad’s President Idriss Deby, who ruled his country for more than 30 years and was an important Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in Africa, was killed on Monday in a battle against rebels in the north. His son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, was named interim president by a transitional council of military officers, army spokesman Azem Bermendoa Agouna said on state television on Tuesday. Deby, 68, took power in a rebellion in 1990 and was one of Af...

6 Min Read N’DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad’s President Idriss Deby, who ruled his country for more than 30 years and was an important Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in Africa, was killed on Monday in a battle against rebels in the north, authorities said. His son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, was named interim president by a transitional council of military officers, army spokesman Azem Bermendoa Agouna said on state television on Tuesday. Deby, 68, took power in a rebellion in 199...

Chadian soldiers drive with a Chadian flag, file. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun N’Djamena (Reuters) - Chad’s army said on Monday it had beaten back a column of insurgents, claiming to have halted a rebel advance towards the capital N’Djamena as the country awaits the final results of a presidential election last week. The rebel group Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), based in Chad’s northern neighbour Libya, has made inroads south since it attacked a border post on election day a...

By Reuters Staff (Adds details on numbers detained, Blinken quote) WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday revoked an authorization for certain transactions with nine sanctioned Belarusian state-owned enterprises over alleged human rights violations and abuses in the Eastern European country. “This action is a further consequence of the Belarusian authorities’ flagrant disregard for human rights and Belarus’ failure to comply with its obligations under international h...

By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 30 civilians in an attack on a village in the west of the Ethiopian region of Oromiya, witnesses said on Wednesday, the latest outbreak of ethnic violence to challenge the federal government in the fractious nation. Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, is struggling to control several flashpoints where ethnic rivalries over land, power and resources have ignited ahead of national elections scheduled for June. Prime Mini...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) -Chad President Idriss Deby has taken a strong early lead and appeared poised to extend his three-decade rule, partial provisional results of the April 11 presidential election released by the election commission showed.

2 Min Read BOGOTA, April 15 (Reuters) - Colombia’s government on Thursday formally proposed to Congress a $6.4 billion tax reform that would eliminate many deductions and increase duties on individuals and business. The measure, considered key by financial markets and analysts to manage fiscal pressures caused by the coronavirus pandemic and maintain the country’s credit rating, seeks to boost tax collection by 23.4 trillion pesos ($6.38 billion) a year, equivalent to 2% of gross domestic p...