NIGERIAN DRUGS DEALER BUSTED BY SA POLICE
Mauritanians go to the polls in the first major elections since 2019
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Nigerian students evacuated in Sundan
Comoros said Monday it had refused to allow a boat carrying migrants from Mayotte, where French authorities have announced a controversial operation against illegal migrants, to dock.
It also said it had suspended passenger traffic at a port where deported migrants usually land. "As long as the French side decides to do things unilaterally, we will take our decisions," Comoran Interior Minister Fakridine Mahamoud told AFP, adding that none of the deported migrants "will enter a Comoran port".
The country's maritime services company also said that the Mutsamudu port was suspending passenger traffic from Monday until Wednesday.
Authorities in the French overseas territory of Mayotte announced they would launch Operation Wuambushu ("Take Back") to remove illegal migrants who have settled in slums on the island.
The plan was for those without papers are to be sent back to the Comoran island of Anjouan, 70 kilometres (45 miles) away from Mayotte.
The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros had warned last week that it would not accept migrants expelled under the plan that has triggered a diplomatic spat.
Intense negotiations between Moroni and Paris in recent weeks had raised the possibility of a last-minute deal.
Comoros' leader Azali Assoumani, who holds the rotating presidency of the African Union since February, said he hoped the operation would be abandoned, admitting Moroni didn't have "the means to stop the operation through force."
In 2019 France pledged 150 million euros ($161 million) in development aid as part of a deal to tackle human trafficking and ease the repatriation of Comorans from Mayotte.
Around half of Mayotte's roughly 350,000 population is estimated to be foreign, most of them Comoran.
Mayotte is the fourth island of the Comoros archipelago that France held on to after the initial 1974 referendum, but is still claimed by Moroni.
In March 2011 Mayotte became the 101st French department, or administrative area, in accordance with a refere
Egyptians were fleeing conflict-ridden Sudan on Monday as fighting continues there between two rival generals in Africa’s third largest country.
Coaches streamed through Egypt's Argeen border with Sudan, carrying evacuees onboard.
Foreign governments have also been airlifting hundreds of their diplomats and other citizens to safety from Sudan.
Over 420 people, including 264 civilians, have been killed and over 3,700 wounded in the fighting between the Sudanese armed forces led by General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan and the powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
“There is heavy shelling, there is no water, no electricity, it is an unstable situation. Jets are over us all the time, over the capital, we never expected something like this at all even in dreams, especially in Khartoum. This is something I can't describe, it is so difficult." Mona Othman, Sudanese national.
Last week, Egypt’s military evacuated 177 soldiers. On Sunday, the foreign ministry said 436 citizens had left by land. Over 10,000 Egyptians are thought to live in Sudan.
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