TRIPOLI (Reuters) -The United Nations Support Mission in Libya said it held talks in Tripoli on Monday to help resolve a central bank crisis that sparked a blockade of oil production and threatens the worst crisis in years for the major energy exporter. The standoff was triggered when Western factions moved last month to oust …
UN hosts talks in Tripoli to resolve Libya’s central bank crisis Read More »
(Reuters) – Congo’s eastern city of Goma held a memorial service on Monday for 200 victims of the conflict between the army and rebels that are waging a renewed insurgency in the vast central African country’s militia-plagued east. The time and circumstances of the killings were unclear. Authorities said all were direct or indirect victims …
Eastern Congo mourns victims of conflict in ceremony Read More »
By Djaffar Al Katanty KAVUMU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Dozens of feverish patients lay on thin mattresses on the floor of a makeshift mpox isolation ward in east Democratic Republic of Congo, as overstretched hospital workers grappled with drug shortages and lack of space to accommodate the influx. Congo is the epicentre of …
Mpox patients lack medicine, food, in east DR Congo hospital Read More »
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained in Nigeria since February, made a fresh bail application on medical grounds on Monday but lawyers for the country’s economic crimes agency opposed the request. Binance and Gambaryan, a U.S. citizen, as well as the exchange’s British-Kenyan regional manager for Africa, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have …
Binance staffer detained in Nigeria seeks bail on health grounds Read More »
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told China’s Xi Jinping on Monday he wanted to narrow his country’s trade deficit with Beijing, days before the Chinese leader is due to urge a summit of 50 African nations to buy more Chinese goods. China, which has the world’s second-biggest economy, is South …
South Africa asks China for better balanced trade Read More »
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s electoral commission rejected on Monday an administrative court ruling reinstating three presidential election candidates, reinforcing opposition fears that the commission sought to favour incumbent leader Kais Saied. Defying the highest judicial body, the commission approved only the candidacies of President Saied and two others, Zouhair Magzhaoui and Ayachi Zammel, for the …
Tunisia electoral body rejects reinstatement of candidates in presidential race Read More »
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria on Monday charged 10 people with treason and conspiring to incite the military to mutiny following last month’s nationwide demonstrations that saw thousands take to the streets to protest against a cost of living crisis. The protests were met with a deadly crackdown by security forces and Amnesty …
Nigeria charges protesters with treason, inciting military Read More »
(This Aug. 30 story has been corrected to fix the last name of the game lodge owner in paragraphs 5-8) By Sisipho Skweyiya and Sfundo Parakozov JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s phase-out of breeding captive big game and ban on the use of lions for commercial gain have left some big-cat breeders worried about their …
South Africa lion breeders face uncertain future after ban Read More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Mariam Eniola Bolaji of Nigeria became the first African athlete to win a badminton medal at a Games – Olympics or Paralympics -when she clinched bronze in the women’s singles SL3 at the Paris Paralympics on Monday. The 18-year-old beat Ukraine’s Oksana Kozyna 21-9 21-9 to secure a podium finish three years …
Paralympics-Nigeria’s Bolaji wins first badminton medal for Africa Read More »
(Reuters) – Africa faces an increasingly heavy toll from climate change with many countries having to spend up to 9% of their budgets battling climate extremes, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report said on Monday. Despite producing far lower greenhouse gas emissions than other continents, Africa’s temperatures have risen more rapidly than the global average. …
Africa faces steep costs as temperatures soar, says WMO Read More »
