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Senegalese lawmakers vote to postpone presidential election to Dec. 15

6 Feb 2024

By Diadie Ba, Ngouda Dione and Zohra Bensemra DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal’s parliament on Monday voted to hold a postponed presidential election on Dec. 15 in the face of public outcry that led some opposition lawmakers to blockade proceedings until security forces intervened. The move follows President Macky Sall’s unprecedented announcement of a postponement on Saturday …

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Uganda central bank holds policy rate, saying inflation risks remain

6 Feb 2024

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda’s central bank on Tuesday maintained its key lending rate, saying risks to the inflation outlook continued to be tilted to the upside. It was the third monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting in a row where the Bank of Uganda kept its Central Bank Rate (CBR) at 9.5%. “The MPC …

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World Bank’s Banga denies IFC cover up of abuse involving Kenya school investment

6 Feb 2024

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – World Bank President Ajay Banga on Monday rejected allegations that the bank’s International Finance Corp arm sought to cover up reports of sexual abuse at a for-profit school chain in Kenya in which it held a stake from 2013 to 2022. Banga, asked during a Center for Global Development …

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About 40 killed in violence near disputed Sudan-South Sudan border

5 Feb 2024

JUBA (Reuters) -About 40 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in violence in a disputed area on South Sudan’s border with Sudan over the weekend, a government official said on Monday. Frequent clashes have taken place in Abyei region between rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group because of a dispute over the …

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Sudanese RSF brings down telecoms networks across Sudan – sources

5 Feb 2024

By Nafisa Eltahir CAIRO (Reuters) – Communications were down for most Sudanese on Monday in what two telecoms sector sources and the army-aligned state news agency said was a deliberate move by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces who are battling the military. The RSF did not comment, while an RSF source said the paramilitary had …

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At least one child is dying every two hours in Sudan’s Zamzam camp – medical charity MSF

5 Feb 2024

DUBAI (Reuters) – At least one child is dying every two hours in Sudan’s Zamzam camp, one of the largest and oldest camps for displaced people in the country, French medical charity Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) said on Monday. “Before the start of the conflict in April last year, people in the camp …

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Senegal parliament to debate extending president’s mandate as protests break out

5 Feb 2024

By Cooper Inveen and Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegalese police on Sunday cracked down on protests against the postponement of the presidential election, as parliament prepared to debate a bill that would reschedule the vote for August and extend President Macky Sall’s mandate. Sall announced on Saturday the Feb. 25 vote would be delayed to …

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Namibia interim president says no plan to run in this year’s election

5 Feb 2024

By Nyasha Nyaungwa WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia’s Nangolo Mbumba, who took over as interim president of the southern African country on Sunday after Hage Geingob died in office, said he had no plans to run in elections due at the end of the year. That means Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who replaces Mbumba as vice president and …

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Namibia’s President Hage Geingob, 82, dies after cancer diagnosis

5 Feb 2024

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Namibia’s President Hage Geingob, 82, died in hospital early on Sunday, the presidency said, weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer. Geingob had been in charge of the thinly populated and mostly arid southern African country since 2015, the year he announced he had survived prostate cancer. Vice President Nangolo …

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