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Tunisian court allows prominent politician Daimi to run in presidential election

30 Aug 2024 30 Aug 2024

TUNIS (Reuters) – The Tunisian administrative court upheld on Friday an appeal by prominent politician Imed Daimi to be allowed to return to the race for the presidential election expected on Oct. 6, Daimi said. Daimi became the third candidate to be restored to the race by the court, after Abdellatif Mekki and Mondher Znaidi, …

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Sudan’s rains spread wartime suffering across the country

30 Aug 2024 30 Aug 2024

By Eltayeb Siddig TOKAR, Sudan (Reuters) – Since floods swept away their home in eastern Sudan, Ahmed Hadab and his family have survived by drinking water mixed in with milk from his last surviving goat. “We don’t have any food,” he said after days of walking, trying to find something to eat, somewhere else to …

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Nigeria receives 10,000 doses of mpox vaccines from US

30 Aug 2024 30 Aug 2024

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria has received 10,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the first batch of the vaccine to reach the country which has confirmed 40 cases with no fatalities so far. Muyi Aina, executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency …

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Al Qaeda branch says it killed 300 fighters, not civilians, in Burkina Faso attack

29 Aug 2024 29 Aug 2024

By David Lewis (Reuters) – An al Qaeda-linked group said it killed nearly 300 people in Saturday’s devastating attack in north-central Burkina Faso, but said it targeted militia members linked to the army, not civilians, the U.S. consultancy Site Intelligence Group reported. The attack outside the town of Barsalogho was one of the deadliest in …

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Egypt eyes shift from commodity subsidies to cash payments by July 2025, PM says

29 Aug 2024 29 Aug 2024

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt could begin transitioning from subsidising essential commodities to providing direct cash assistance to its poorest citizens as early as the next fiscal year (July to June), Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Thursday. Currently, Egypt subsidizes essential commodities for more than half of its population. Over 60 million people have access …

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Weeks of flooding kill at least 179 in Nigeria, agency says

29 Aug 2024 29 Aug 2024

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – At least 179 people have died and tens of thousands been displaced in weeks of flooding in Nigeria, the National Emergency Management Agency said on Thursday. The worst-hit areas were the seven northwestern states where floodwaters killed 89 people and washed away more than 25,000 hectares of farmland, the …

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Zimbabwe’s forex rule stunts horticulture recovery, growers say

29 Aug 2024 29 Aug 2024

By Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s rule requiring exporters to exchange 25% of their dollar export earnings into local currency is hampering the horticulture sector’s recovery, two decades after land seizures hit output, a growers’ group said on Thursday. The southern African country is slowly restoring horticultural exports, which peaked at $140 million in …

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Egypt central bank expands lending to government, but inflation slows

29 Aug 2024 29 Aug 2024

By Patrick Werr CAIRO (Reuters) – Lending to the government by Egypt’s central bank continued to climb in the last fiscal year, according to the central bank’s newly released annual budget, even as inflation has slid from an all-time peak in September. Economists say such lending by the central bank risks undermining the economy by …

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Tunisian court allows prominent candidate Znaidi to run in presidential race

29 Aug 2024 29 Aug 2024

TUNIS, (Reuters) – The Tunisian Administrative Court upheld on Thursday an appeal by prominent candidate Mondher Zenaidi, thereby allowing him to return to the presidential race expected on Oct. 6, a judicial official told Reuters, in the second such ruling this week. The Administrative Court also returned Abdellatif Mekki to the race on Tuesday after …

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Egypt sends arms to Somalia following security deal, sources say

29 Aug 2024 29 Aug 2024

By Abdi Sheikh and Giulia Paravicini MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Egypt delivered its first military aid to Somalia in more than four decades on Tuesday, three diplomatic and Somali government sources said, a move likely to deepen strains between the two countries and Ethiopia. Egypt and Somalia have drawn closer together this year after Ethiopia signed a …

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