(Reuters) -Burkina Faso’s ruling junta has dismissed interim Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the government, a decree issued by the office of military leader Ibrahim Traore said on Friday. The decree did not give a reason for the dismissal of Tambela, who was appointed interim premier soon after Traore seized power …
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By Edwin Okoth NAIROBI (Reuters) -Nearly 20 of the roughly 400 Kenyan police officers serving in Haiti on a U.N.-backed anti-gang force have submitted letters of resignation from the mission over the past two months because of pay delays and poor conditions, three officers told Reuters. The officers have received no response to their letters …
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GQEBERHA, South Africa (Reuters) -Opener Pathum Nissanka led Sri Lanka’s fight back against hosts South Africa on Friday as they closed the second day of the second test on 242-3, trailing by 116 runs. Nissanka was dropped when he was on 22 and went on to punish the South African bowlers, helping to blunt a …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Friday it is deploying experts to support health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate an as-yet undiagnosed disease linked to multiple deaths in a remote area of the country. The WHO experts are on their way to Panzi, a locality in the southwestern Kwango …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Senate has passed a bill seeking to make it a crime to export large quantities of unprocessed corn in an effort to alleviate hunger in the West African nation, documents seen by Reuters on Friday showed. Africa’s most populous country is grappling with its worst cost-of-living crisis in …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa will deport Janusz Walus, a far-right extremist who assassinated anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993, to his native Poland on Friday, the government said. Walus, 71, served nearly 30 years of a life sentence for Hani’s murder in a South African prison. In 2022 he was released on parole, sparking …
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RABAT (Reuters) -The African Development Bank plans to lend Morocco 650 million euros to develop transportation infrastructure for the World Cup in 2030, MAP state news agency quoted the bank’s head as saying on Thursday. Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said financing to develop Morocco’s rail and airport infrastructure for the World Cup would be put …
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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s two main presidential contenders staged rival rallies in the capital, Accra, on Thursday evening, courting voters in a final push ahead of the world’s second biggest cocoa producer’s legislative and presidential election set for Saturday. Former president John Dramani Mahama, leader of the main opposition National Democratic …
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WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia’s President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged “radical shifts” to fix the country’s high levels of poverty and unemployment, speaking on Thursday in her first press conference since winning last week’s election. Nandi-Ndaitwah, who will take office in March as the first woman to hold the post in the southern African country, suggested she …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Chinese fishing vessel is under the control of alleged pirates in Somalia’s waters in the semi-autonomous Puntland region, the European Union’s anti-piracy naval force said on Thursday. The anti-piracy force said the vessel with up to 18 crew members on board had been taken over by pirates, some armed with AK-47s …
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