LUSAKA (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday that Zambia’s government had asked for its $1.3 billion loan programme to be increased to $1.7 billion to help it respond to a severe drought. The IMF also said in a statement that it had reached a staff-level agreement on the third review of …
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By Kopano Gumbi PRETORIA (Reuters) – South Africa’s economy recorded a small contraction in the first quarter of 2024, statistics agency data showed on Tuesday, hurt by a slump in the mining and construction sectors. Gross domestic product shrank 0.1% in quarter-on-quarter seasonally-adjusted terms <ZAGDPN=ECI>. Economists polled by Reuters had expected growth of 0.1%. On …
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By Abdelaziz Boumzar ORAN, Algeria (Reuters) – Algeria wants to lure more visitors to the cultural and scenic treasures of Africa’s largest country, shedding its status as a tourism backwater and expanding a sector outshone by competitors in neighbouring Morocco and Tunisia. The giant north African country offers Roman and Islamic sites, beaches and mountains …
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By Nellie Peyton and Tannur Anders JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa was on tenterhooks on Monday for the African National Congress to signal whom it will choose as a partner to govern the nation after it lost its majority in last week’s election for the first time in 30 years of democracy. The ANC had comfortably …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s sexual minorities face escalating human rights violations, with over 1000 cases recorded in the last nine months involving arrests, torture and house evictions among others, according to a report by a pressure group. Members of Uganda’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community have faced increasing rights violations since early …
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RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco’s police said they seized 18.243 tonnes of cannabis resin in the coastal town of Sidi Rehal south of Casablanca on Monday. Five people were arrested in the operation as they unloaded the banned substance from a truck into rapid inflatable boats, the police said in a statement. They have begun investigating …
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania and Ethiopia said they had signed accords with South Korea for loans of billions of dollars, part of broader deals that will give the Asian nation access to Africa’s crucial mineral resources and vast export market. South Korea is hosting at least 30 heads of state, including Tanzania and …
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By Nellie Peyton, Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Bhargav Acharya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africa’s political parties to work together for the good of the country as final results from last week’s election confirmed his African National Congress had lost its majority for the first time. The result, announced on Sunday, is …
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BANGUI (Reuters) -Prosecutors in Central African Republic say they have detained a European employee of a U.S.-based non-governmental organisation on suspicion of being a threat to state security and seeking to incite revolt against security forces. In a statement read on state television on Friday, the public prosecutor in the capital Bangui said Martin Joseph …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) won 159 out of 400 seats in the country’s National Assembly after last week’s general election, the electoral commission said on Sunday. The results showed the ANC had lost its outright majority in parliament for the first time since it came to power after the end …
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