By Isaac Anyaogu ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria will likely spend 5.4 trillion naira ($3.7 billion) in 2024 – 50% more than in 2023 – to keep petrol prices fixed, while borrowing an extra 6.6 trillion naira to plug gaps in its budget, a draft document seen by Reuters showed on Thursday. The “Accelerated Stabilisation and Advancement …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Government officials would be acting unlawfully by implementing Britain’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in breach of an order from Europe’s human rights court, a civil servants’ trade union told London’s High Court on Thursday. The FDA union is taking legal action against the government over guidance …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain has requested to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel’s actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Thursday. Spain joins a small number of other countries that have said they wish to intervene including Ireland, which along with Spain and …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda has signed an agreement with South Korea for a $500 million loan to help finance infrastructure building in the east African country, Uganda’s finance ministry said on Thursday. South Korea’s EXIM Bank will provide the loan, the ministry said in a post on X. It didn’t provide details on what kind …
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By Ashraf Hamed Atta CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will take its biggest ever delegation to the Paris Olympics with the hope of exceeding its record medal haul from three years ago and continue to build its credentials for a possible tilt at hosting the Summer Games in 2036. Although the final decision on whether to …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -An investigation into two recalled batches of children’s cough syrup made in South Africa by Johnson & Johnson found no trace of a toxin, and no adverse events have been reported from consuming the syrup, the country’s drug regulator said on Wednesday. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority issued the recall in April, …
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(Reuters) – Seven soldiers were killed by attackers suspected of being Islamist militants in northern Benin’s Pendjari National Park, two security sources and two diplomatic sources said on Wednesday. The Beninois soldiers were killed in an ambush, said the sources, two of whom said it took place near the town of Tanguieta. Benin’s northern neighbours …
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By Nellie Peyton and Wendell Roelf JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The African National Congress is leaning towards trying to form a government of national unity for South Africa, it said on Wednesday, but the second-largest party said it would not join a government that included some of its smaller rivals. The ANC, which has run the country …
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By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Cape Verde’s President Jose Maria Neves said the rise of right-wing populism has made it difficult to hold a serious debate over colonial reparations but argued that should not stop governments from having those conversations behind closed doors. In an interview with news site Brasil Já, published online on …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – A Ugandan activist campaigning to stop the development of a $5 billion crude oil pipeline in east Africa by France’s TotalEnergies and others has been detained by Uganda’s military, the group he works for said on Wednesday. Stephen Kwikiriza from the Ugandan environmental pressure group Environment Governance Institute (EGI) …
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