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  • Donald Trump signs off UK’s handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
    Dienstag, 1. April 2025 19:32 Uhr

    No 10 says deal to cede UK’s last African colony now being finalised after months of doubt

    Donald Trump has signed off the UK’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Downing Street has indicated, paving the way for the UK to cede sovereignty over its last African colony after a six-month standoff.

    Under the terms of the deal, the UK will give up control of the Chagos archipelago while paying to maintain control of a joint US-UK military base on the largest island, Diego Garcia, under a 99-year lease.

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  • People displaced by Uganda oil pipeline ‘received inadequate compensation’
    Dienstag, 1. April 2025 11:04 Uhr

    Many of the people displaced by Eacop project were inadequately rehoused or compensated, report says

    People displaced from their homes alongside the site of an oil pipeline under construction in Uganda have complained of being inadequately rehoused or compensated.

    When completed, the East African crude oil pipeline (Eacop) will transport oil from the Tilenga and Kingfisher oilfields in western Uganda to the port of Tanga in Tanzania.

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  • Niger’s junta withdraws from Lake Chad anti-Islamist force
    Dienstag, 1. April 2025 09:12 Uhr

    Coalition of former allies Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria fought armed insurgents including Boko Haram

    Niger’s ruling junta has quit a regional force fighting armed Islamist groups in west Africa’s Lake Chad area, cementing an acrimonious split from former allies in the region.

    The decision to exit the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) was announced in a bulletin on state television over the weekend. The move “reflects a stated intent to reinforce security for oil sites”, the bulletin stated, without providing further details.

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  • Chester zoo unveils £28m ‘Africa’ facility – complete with chilly giraffes
    Dienstag, 1. April 2025 07:00 Uhr

    Nine-hectare site home to 57 species including rhino, zebras and ostriches in UK’s biggest such development

    “Although we are trying to replicate Uganda and Kenya we are actually in Cheshire so the weather is slightly different,” admits Chester zoo boss, Jamie Christon, on a fresh and very grey Monday morning.

    But ignore the chilliness and screw your eyes and you could well be transported to a sweeping African savannah where, one day, there will be giraffes, zebras, antelopes and ostriches roaming majestically side by side.

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  • New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
    Montag, 31. März 2025 12:00 Uhr

    Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing

    Videos of Sudan’s national museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken artefacts posted on social media after the Sudanese army recaptured the area from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in recent days show the extent of looting of the country’s antiquities.

    Fears of looting in the museum were first raised in June 2023 and a year later satellite images emerged of trucks loaded with artefacts leaving the building, according to museum officials. But last week, as the RSF were driven out of Khartoum after two years of war, the full extent of the theft became apparent.

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  • Donors quit Prince Harry’s charity when he left UK, says Sentebale chair
    Sonntag, 30. März 2025 17:48 Uhr

    Sophie Chandauka claims there is ‘significant correlation’ with drop in funders and prince’s move to the US

    Donors abandoned the charity Prince Harry founded in memory of his late mother when he left the UK, the chair of Sentebale has said amid a bitter media row in which she accused the prince of trying to “eject” her through “bullying” and “harassment”.

    Sophie Chandauka told Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips programme that there was a “significant correlation” between a drop in funders and the Duke of Sussex’s departure to the US after the controversy caused by his rift with the royal family.

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