CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) – Millions of people in Sudan’s Darfur region are at risk of dying of hunger after a decision by the Sudanese government to prohibit aid deliveries through Chad, an advocacy group for internally displaced people said on Tuesday. The order, a digital copy of which Reuters has obtained, effectively shuts down a crucial …
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By Mahamat Ramadane N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad’s election agency confirmed dates for a presidential election on Tuesday, committing to hold two rounds over May and June with provisional results due on July 7 under a promised transition back to democracy from junta rule. The military authorities who seized power in 2021 initially said they would …
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s central bank governor has called for a unified national budget in an apparent challenge to his former ally Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah amid a slide in the value of the country’s dinar. Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Governor Sadiq al-Kabir published a letter to Dbeibah on Tuesday urging an end to …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A shopping plaza under construction in Nigeria’s southeastern Anambra state collapsed late on Monday, killing at least six people, with others feared trapped in the rubble, the emergency agency said. The building, with more than 120 shops, collapsed in the city of Onitsha, the National Emergency Management Agency …
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By Christian Akorlie and Bate Felix ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana aims to finish restructuring its external debt as soon as possible so it can emerge from its worst economic crisis in a generation, President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Tuesday. The West African country, which defaulted on most of its overseas debt in December 2022 after servicing …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa recorded 499 rhinos poached in 2023, 51 more than the previous year, despite efforts to protect the animals, the government said on Tuesday. South Africa is home to nearly half of the critically-endangered black rhino population in Africa and to the world’s largest population of near-threatened white rhinos. Rhinos are …
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By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) – Two people were killed during clashes with police in the suburbs of Guinea’s capital Conakry on Monday, their families and medical sources said, amid a national strike that has paralysed the city and disrupted some mining operations. The strike has emptied the main thoroughfares, closed banks and shuttered markets, …
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By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s delay in taking coal-fired power stations offline will only harm its commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050 if the plants continue to burn well into the 2030s, the head of its donor-funded green energy plan said on Tuesday. Officials admitted privately in November that South Africa will …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall on Monday urged participants in a national dialogue to reach a consensus on a date to hold a delayed presidential election, failing which he will ask the Constitutional Council to find his replacement when his mandate ends on April 2. The West African nation, set to become an …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will appoint a new special envoy for Sudan on Monday, as Washington seeks to bring an end to a war that has wrecked parts of the country and killed tens of thousands. Former diplomat and U.S. member of Congress Tom Perriello will assume the special envoy …
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