By Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) – The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) needs $400 million to feed millions of people in Southern Africa following a drought that plunged parts of the region into hunger, the programme said on Wednesday. The WFP told Reuters it needed urgent funding for six months to support drought relief in …
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By Kopano Gumbi and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress promised South Africans “A Better Life For All” when it swept to power in the country’s first democratic election in 1994, marking the end of white minority rule and apartheid. After 30 years of ANC government, many South Africans are frustrated …
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N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad’s prime minister and opposition leader Succes Masra has tendered his resignation after interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby was confirmed as a winner of the May 6 presidential election, Masra said on Wednesday. Masra, a staunch opponent of the junta, which seized power in April 2021, was appointed prime minister of the …
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By Bhargav Acharya and Kopano Gumbi JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s headline inflation slowed slightly in April, but analysts said an interest rate cut was unlikely next week when the central bank’s monetary policy meeting overlaps with a national election whose outcome is uncertain. Headline consumer inflation dropped to 5.2% year on year in April …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s May 29 election looks set to be the most tightly contested since the end of apartheid, with opinion polls suggesting that the governing African National Congress may lose its majority for the first time after 30 years in power. The ANC is still expected to win the largest share of …
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By Jana Choukeir and Tala Ramadan DUBAI (Reuters) – Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed on Wednesday to Tehran to participate in the funeral of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, the foreign ministry said in a statement. “Shoukry’s visit is the first visit by the Egyptian foreign minister …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – At least 22 people kidnapped by gunmen from the suburban Dawaki district of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, were rescued, police and residents said on Tuesday. Kidnapping for ransom is rife in Nigeria as roving gangs of armed men target people in remote areas, highways and schools. While there have been …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – At least 40 people were killed and many others wounded in an attack by gunmen on Zurak village in Nigeria’s north-central Plateau state, where clashes between herders and farmers are rife, the police and residents said on Tuesday. Plateau police spokesperson Alfred Alabo said armed men, often referred to …
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s respect for treaties does not prevent it from using “all scenarios to preserve its national security and the historical rights of Palestinians”, the state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV quoted what it termed a high-level source as saying on Tuesday. The report came as tension grows between Egypt and Israel over the …
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(Reuters) – Security forces thwarted a coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday in which armed men targeted the homes of top officials and briefly occupied the office of the presidency in the capital Kinshasa, authorities said. WHAT HAPPENED? In the early hours of Sunday, a group of around 50 men armed …
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