By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) -The world has no choice but to press on with climate commitments despite the United States pulling out of a key international accord, given the threats posed by global warming and the progress already made, the chair of the Africa group of negotiators said. President Donald Trump’s administration pulled out …
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(Reuters) – Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have withdrawn from the strategic town of Walikale, describing the move as a goodwill gesture ahead of planned peace talks with the government next week. M23 has seized eastern Congo’s two largest cities in a swift advance since January that has resulted in thousands …
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By Tim Cocks ORANIA, South Africa (Reuters) – A group of white Afrikaners was so opposed to majority Black rule when apartheid ended some three decades ago that they carved out a separatist enclave, the only town in South Africa where all residents, including menial workers, are white. Now, the residents of Orania – population, …
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By Nqobile Dludla and Lovasoa Rabary JOHANNESBURG/ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – The U.S. government’s imposition of steep tariffs on African nations signals the end of the AGOA trade deal, an initiative meant to help African economies develop through preferential access to U.S. markets, trade experts said on Thursday. Several African countries were hit by some of the …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni arrived in neighbouring South Sudan on Thursday, in the highest level mission there since clashes and the detention of the vice president triggered regional fears of a return to civil war. Museveni was met at the airport by South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, whose administration has accused First …
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(Reuters) – African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Wednesday for talks aimed at averting a new civil war after First Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest last week. President Salva Kiir’s government has accused Machar, a longtime rival who led rebel forces during a 2013-18 war that killed …
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By Miguel Gomes LUANDA (Reuters) – The United States remains committed to funding the Lobito rail corridor, a project to help transport critical minerals from the central African copperbelt to the West, despite President Donald Trump’s aggressive spending cuts, a U.S. diplomat said. The U.S, through its International Development Finance Corporation, set up during Trump’s …
DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said they downed an Antonov military plane belonging to the Sudanese army on Thursday in northern Darfur. The RSF published a video that they said showed the plane wreckage. Reuters could not immediately verify the images. Sudanese army officials were not immediately available for comment. The RSF has …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s parliament has approved revisions to an amnesty law covering 2021-24 protests, paving the way for possible prosecutions over the deaths of dozens of protesters. The law was passed in March 2024 under former President Macky Sall, and offered amnesty for offences committed by both security forces and protesters during demonstrations that …
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By Wendell Roelf and Bhargav Acharya CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South Africa’s parliament passed the budget’s fiscal framework on Wednesday after weeks of political wrangling, but the future of the coalition government was thrown into doubt after a key coalition partner voted against the measure. The legislation passed by 194 votes to 182, with the biggest …
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