By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Abraham Achirga LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian Josephine Akiga looks around her empty restaurant in Abuja, where a sole customer sits eating, longing for the days when the place was filled with people. Business has been so tough since President Bola Tinubu took office a year ago that she sometimes lets customers …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Central African Republic companies linked to Russia’s Wagner mercenary group and to illicit mining activities, the Treasury Department said. Washington, which has previously accused Wagner of advancing what it described as Russia’s “malign activities” in the African country, said the group and related …
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By Felix Njini and Clara Denina JOHANNESBURG/ LONDON (Reuters) – Days after miner BHP launched its takeover bid for rival Anglo American in April, the CEOs of both headed for South Africa, where a condition to divest Anglo’s local platinum and iron ore assets was causing a political storm. More than 20% of Anglo shares …
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By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s Julius Malema, who quit the ruling African National Congress to form a radical leftist party, could potentially become a kingmaker or even deputy president if the ANC loses its majority as early election results suggest. The prospect of the ANC co-opting Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) …
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By Thando Hlophe and Kopano Gumbi KWAMASHU, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africans voted on Wednesday in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, amid high turnout and with opinion polls suggesting the African National Congress may lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government. Well after dark, voters were still forming …
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By Reade Levinson and David Lewis Gold smuggling out of Africa, mainly to the United Arab Emirates, has surged over the last decade, with hundreds of tonnes of gold worth tens of billions of dollars illegally leaving the continent every year, according to a report published on Thursday. Analysis by Swissaid, an organisation that focuses …
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By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The long queues of voters recalled South Africa’s 1994 ballot that ended white minority rule and ushered in democracy, but for many, gratitude to the ruling African National Congress (ANC) for their historic liberation is wearing thin. As South Africans cast their ballots on Wednesday in the country’s most …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s army on Wednesday rejected a call to return to peace talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces following a conversation between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Thousands of people have been killed and more than 9 million have fled their homes in the war between …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities held a ceremony to mark the completion of multi-year renovations to the grand 14th-century mosque of Altunbugha al-Maridani in Historic Cairo. Al-Maridani, chief of police and married to a daughter of the powerful Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Mohamed, built the mosque in 1338-40 A.D. on al-Darb al-Ahmar street, …
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By Nyasha Chingono LIVINGSTONE, Zambia (Reuters) – Southern African countries hosting the largest elephant populations in the world made a fresh pitch on Wednesday to be allowed to sell their $1 billion ivory stockpiles, amid calls to pull out of an international convention on endangered species. Five countries that make up the Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) trans-frontier …
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