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Senegal ruling coalition loses comfortable majority

Senegal's ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition has lost its comfortable majority in parliament, securing just two seats more than two allied opposition coalitions in a legislative election at the weekend, the electoral commission said on Thursday.

Reuters · Aug 4, 2022

Senegal capital wades through floodwater after heavy rain

Torrential rain fell across Senegal on Wednesday, causing floods in the capital Dakar and bringing down a section of one of the main highways into the city.

Reuters · Jul 20, 2022

Senegal's opposition supporters bang pots and pans in noisy protest

Senegalese honked car horns and banged on pots and pans in the capital Dakar on Wednesday evening in the latest protest organised by the political opposition ahead of legislative elections next month.

Reuters · Jun 22, 2022

Ukraine says 26 bodies have been found under two ruined buildings in Borodianka town

Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova on Thursday said 26 bodies had been found under two ruined buildings in the Kyiv region town of Borodianka, which is been being searched by the authorities after Russian troops occupying it withdrew.

Reuters · Apr 7, 2022

Roadside burial for labourer shot through head in Ukraine's Bucha

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Reuters · Apr 5, 2022

In Ukrainian street, a corpse with hands bound and a bullet wound to the head

A man lay sprawled by the roadside in the Ukrainian city of Bucha on Sunday, his hands tied behind his back and a bullet wound to his head, one of hundreds of local residents that officials say have been found dead in the wake of five weeks of Russian occupation.

Reuters · Apr 3, 2022

Ukrainian mayor shows dead bodies amid battle-scarred city of Bucha

The mayor of a recently liberated Ukrainian city accused Russian troops on Sunday of deliberately killing civilians during their month-long occupation of his town, allegations that Russia's defence ministry denied.

Reuters · Apr 3, 2022

‘They were all shot’: Russia accused of war crimes as Bucha reveals horror of invasion

Ukrainian forces liberating the town of Bucha near Kyiv find streets littered with corpses of civilians and burned-out Russian tanks

The Guardian - AU · Apr 3, 2022

Zelenskiy vows to investigate and prosecute all Russian ‘crimes’ in Ukraine – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Apr 3, 2022

Russian retreat leaves trail of slain civilians in town near Kyiv

Dead civilians still lay scattered over the streets of the Ukrainian country town of Bucha on Saturday, three days after the invading Russian army pulled back from its abortive advance on Kyiv to the southeast.

Reuters · Apr 2, 2022