ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two separate cases challenging the legality of one of Africa’s most restrictive pieces of anti-LGBT legislation, paving the way for the president to sign it into law. The West African nation’s parliament unanimously approved the bill in February. It increases a crackdown on the rights of LGBT …
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By Sonia Rolley PARIS (Reuters) – International lawyers for the Democratic Republic of Congo welcomed Apple’s decision to stop sourcing minerals from there due to worsening conflict, but said they would press ahead with their cases against the company in Europe. Criminal complaints were filed against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium this week on …
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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Delegations from rival Libyan institutions resumed talks in Morocco on Wednesday to try to break a political deadlock and prevent the country from sliding back into chaos. Libya has undergone a turbulent decade since it split in 2014 between two administrations in its east and west following the NATO-backed …
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(Reuters) – A river boat sank in western Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 22 people after the overcrowded upper deck collapsed, a local official told Reuters on Wednesday. Boating accidents are common in Congo, where old, wooden vessels are the main form of transport between villages and are often loaded far beyond capacity. …
(Reuters) – South Africa have called on uncapped all-rounder and Corbin Bosch for the crucial two-test home series against Pakistan that starts in Pretoria on Dec. 26, but will offer injured Wiaan Mulder time to prove his fitness All-rounder Mulder missed the second test win over Sri Lanka earlier this month with a fractured middle …
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By Lais Morais and Catarina Demony SANTOS, Brazil (Reuters) – Helena Monteiro da Costa’s father was brought from Angola to Brazil as an enslaved person in the 19th century. Next year the 99-year-old hopes she can take part on a first-of-its-kind cruise that would do the reverse journey back to her father’s homeland. “My father …
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ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s President-elect John Dramani Mahama has named an anti-corruption team to gather information on suspected graft, his transition team said in a statement on Wednesday. Mahama, the main opposition candidate in a Dec. 7 presidential election he won with around 56% of the vote, has promised to recover corruption proceeds and hold …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya suffered a widespread power outage on Wednesday that affected most of the country, with electricity supply restored about six hours later, the nation’s leading power utility Kenya Power said. The cause of the outage in East Africa’s largest economy, which was first reported at 1:28 a.m. local time (1028 GMT), has yet …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court has upheld a one-year prison sentence with labour against former presidential hopeful Ahmed Tantawy and his campaign manager Mohamed Abou El-Diar on charges of forging election documents, Tantawy’s legal team said on Tuesday. Tantawy was the most prominent figure to challenge Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last year for a third …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – A new long-acting preventive HIV drug could reach the world’s poorest countries by the end of 2025 or early 2026, a global health official told Reuters on Tuesday. The ambition is to start deliveries of Gilead Sciences’ lenacapavir on that timeline, said Hui Yang, head of supply operations at …
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