KHARTOUM (Reuters) - About 100 Sudanese judges demanding civilian rule marched on Thursday from the Supreme Court in Khartoum towards an opposition sit-in outside the Defence Ministry, joining anti-government protests for the first time, a Reuters witness said.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudan's ruling Transitional Military Council will retain "sovereign authority only", while civilians will hold the post of prime minister and head all government ministries, the council's spokesman said on Thursday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan could face a counter coup if military rulers and the opposition do not reach agreement on a handover of power to civilians, leading opposition figure and former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi said on Thursday.
MAISA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's Chief Eipa Choro, 74, remembers when battles were fought with knives and spears. But now newcomers with far more firepower are taking lives in his region at the remote northern edge of the Rift Valley.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police stormed the offices of a private television station and cut it off the air on Thursday over accusations it had breached broadcasting rules, which the channel called an attempt to silence its voice criticizing the government.
MORONI (Reuters) - Violent winds of up to 140 kph lashed the East African island nation of Comoros overnight, killing three people, authorities said on Thursday, as tropical Cyclone Kenneth swept towards flood-battered Mozambique and southern Tanzania.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The humanitarian situation has sharply deteriorated around the Libyan capital Tripoli, where "densely populated residential areas are gradually turning into battlefields", the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday.
LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - It took Reuters journalists a few days of research to work out that the numbers coming out of Africa’s vast gold trade did not add up.
LONDON (Reuters) - More than 40 million people around the world work in artisanal and small-scale mining where minerals including gold, diamonds and cobalt are dug up often by hand, a report by the World Bank and development organisation Pact said on Wednesday.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving more food aid in Ebola-struck parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo could help stop the spread of the second-biggest outbreak in history, aid agencies said on Wednesday.
* 2019 output seen 90,000-98,000 bpd vs 93,000-101,000 before
LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - Tullow Oil downgraded its 2019 output guidance to 90,000 to 98,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) on Thursday due to problems at its flagship fields in Ghana and delayed a final go-ahead on its Uganda project to the second half of the year.
LONDON, April 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world lost 12 million hectares (30 million acres) of tropical tree cover last year - the equivalent of 30 football pitches a minute - researchers said on Thursday, warning the planet's health was at stake.
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