BLANTYRE (Reuters) – Flash floods in Malawi’s central region last week left six people dead and has displaced thousands of others, the southern African country’s disaster management agency said on Tuesday. Floods hit Malawi’s Nkhotakota district after incessant rains in the region, where affected areas are still inaccessible by road due to widespread damage to …
By Rachel Savage ACCRA (Reuters) -An anti-LGBTQ bill passed by Ghana’s parliament last week, which could derail international aid for the West African country if it becomes law according to an internal government memo, has not yet reached the desk of President Nana Akufo-Addo, he said on Monday. In his first comments on the bill’s …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Cessna training aircraft collided with a passenger plane carrying 44 people above Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Tuesday, killing the student and his trainer, police said. The passenger plane from local airline Safarilink, bound for the coastal resort town of Diani, had just taken off when it “experienced a loud bang”, Safarilink said …
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By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -The Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) and investment advisers Climate Fund Managers on Tuesday launched a new $1.3 billion target fund to build high-voltage transmission lines linking countries in the region. The Regional Transmission Infrastructure Financing Facility (RTIFF) starts with $20 million in commitments from SAPP, and aims for …
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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila BUDUBURAM, Ghana (Reuters) – Sitting on a tattered mattress amongst the rubble of his former home, Wendell Elijah Mallobe is one of 15,000 Liberian refugees left destitute after authorities in Ghana demolished the camp where he has lived for more than 30 years. “I don’t know anybody in Liberia. Nobody. They …
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By Kopano Gumbi and Sfundo Parakozov PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa’s economy eked out marginal growth of 0.1% in the final quarter of 2023, statistics agency data showed on Tuesday, in the last gross domestic product release before elections in May. The data meant Africa’s most industrialised economy narrowly avoided a technical recession — defined as …
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By Julia Payne and Libby George LONDON (Reuters) – Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote is planning to set up an oil trading arm, likely based in London, to help run crude and products supply for his new refinery in Nigeria, six sources familiar with the matter said. The move would reduce the role of the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Container ship MSC Sky II was continuing its voyage to Djibouti on Tuesday after being hit by a missile a day earlier near Yemen’s port city of Aden, its operator MSC said. MSC Sky II was hit by a missile about 85 miles southeast of Aden and 170 miles east-southeast of the …
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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered his first defeats over his legislation to send asylum seekers to Rwanda after the upper house of parliament demanded greater protections to be introduced before deportation flights can take off. Under the Rwanda plan, which has yet to be carried out, asylum seekers …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A joint Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission has uncovered the upper part of a huge statue of King Ramses II during excavations south of the Egyptian city of Minya, Egypt’s tourism and antiquities ministry said on Monday. The limestone block is about 3.8 metres (12.5 feet) high and depicts a seated Ramses wearing a …
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