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US offers $10mn bounty for leads on Al-Shabab leader Ahmed Diriye

Ahmed Diriye/U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program By Capital FM Kenya The United States government has issued a bounty of up to 10 million dollars for information on the whereabouts of Ahmed Diriye, also known as Ahmed Umar and Abu Ubaidah, a high-ranking member of the Somalia-based Al-Qaeda linked militant group Al-Shabab. The

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New flaw in Apple devices led to spyware infection, researchers say

The Apple Inc. logo. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo By Reuters Researchers at digital watchdog group Citizen Lab said on Thursday they found spyware they linked to Israeli firm NSO that exploited a newly discovered flaw in Apple (AAPL.O) devices. While inspecting the Apple device of an employee of a Washington-based civil society group last week, Citizen

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US pressuring South Asia in order to promote its own interests: Lavrov

By Anadolu Agency The US and its allies are pressuring South Asian countries in the name of a so-called Indo-Pacific Strategy to promote their own interests in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. Lavrov was speaking at a joint press briefing with his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momen in the capital Dhaka.

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Zambia’s former first lady Esther Lungu arrested and charged with motor vehicle theft

Esther Lungu charged. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Chalo Chatu By Face2Face Africa The police in Zambia have arrested the wife of former President Edgar Lungu on three charges, including theft of a motor vehicle, BBC reported. Esther Lungu, who was taken into custody on Wednesday, has denied the charges. The former first lady was arrested with three

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Al-Shabab presented Ugandan soldier and sent a demand to Museveni

A photograph appear on the Internet A soldier from the African Union’s ATMIS operation appeared for the first time in a video released by Al-Shabab terrorist group, who is one of the live soldiers who attacked the group in Bulo-Marer in the Lower Shabelle region Somalia. This Ugandan soldier asked the President of Uganda, Yoweri

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Gabon’s deposed president ‘free to move’ abroad

By Anadolu Agency Gabon’s former President Ali Bongo, who was ousted by the military last week, is free to travel out of the country if he wishes after the transitional president allowed him freedom on Wednesday. “Given his state of health, the former president of the Republic, Ali Bongo Ondimba, is free to move around,”

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President Ruto urges global financial institutions to be fair to Africa

President William Ruto addressing participants during the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya on September 5, 2023 By The East African Africa is calling for a fair financial system that treats all nations equally, according to Kenya’s President William Ruto, who also chairs the Heads of State Committee on Climate Change. Speaking on the second

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Putin says he won’t renew the grain deal until the West meets his demands. The West says it has

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their meeting at Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that a landmark deal allowing Ukraine to export grain safely

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Mozambique president Nyusi has immunity in London ‘tuna bond’ case, court rules

Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi. Mandel Ngan/Pool via Reuters/File Photo By Reuters Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi cannot be sued in Britain over allegations he accepted unlawful payments in the country’s lawsuit against Credit Suisse and others over the $2 billion “tuna bond” scandal, London’s High Court ruled on Monday. Read: Somalia President will become the

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More than 10,000 gather in Finland to protest against racism, government policy

By Anadolu Agency Thousands of people gathered in the Finnish capital on Sunday to protest racism and the government’s policy towards it, according to local media reports. More than 10,000 protesters and members of over 100 organizations, including human rights groups, gathered in Helsinki’s Senate Square and later marched towards Toolonlahti Park, said public broadcaster

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