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By Bate Felix and Wendell Roelf DAKAR (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that could block International Monetary Fund support for some Central African countries, in an effort to guard billions of dollars that oil companies must set aside for environmental restoration. The bill highlights a standoff between foreign investors on one side and Central …

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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Tanzanian police arrested the leader of the country’s main opposition party on Wednesday as he finished addressing a public meeting, his party said. Rights campaigners have accused the government of President Samia Suluhu Hassan of targeting opponents ahead of a national election late this year. The government denies the accusations. Tundu Lissu, …

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PORT LOUIS (Reuters) – Authorities in Mauritius arrested the former finance minister and central bank governor on Wednesday as part of an investigation into embezzlement at a state company, the Indian Ocean island nation’s financial crimes commission said. Former central bank governor Harvesh Seegolam and former finance minister Renganaden Padayachy have denied wrongdoing and did …

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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram has renewed attacks and kidnappings in northeastern Borno state with little push back from security forces, suggesting that authorities in the region were losing ground to insurgents, the state’s governor has said. Militants from Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa …

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By Stanis Bujakera (Reuters) – Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila will return to the central African nation to help find a solution to the crisis in the war-ravaged east, where Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized swathes of territory, he told Reuters late on Tuesday. The M23 rebels’ lightning offensive since January in Democratic Republic of …

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By Sonia Rolley (Reuters) – Peace talks between Congo’s government and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels planned for Wednesday in Doha have been postponed, sources from both sides told Reuters this week, with no future date set. The parties had earlier this month billed the meeting as the first direct talks since M23 fighters captured eastern Congo’s …

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