NAIROBI (Reuters) -A blast at an explosives store wrecked buildings and caused massive damage to an industrial zone on the Seychelles’ main island Mahe, officials said, prompting the president to declare a state of emergency on Thursday. The blast shook the island as heavy rains triggered flooding which killed three people, the president told reporters …
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By Farah Saafan, Amina Ismail and Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set to secure six more years as Egypt’s president in an election held in the shadow of the nearby war in the Gaza Strip, despite growing unease about the country’s economic performance. Over nearly a decade in power, …
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FREETOWN (Reuters) -Sierra Leone police have summoned former president Ernest Bai Koroma for questioning as part of their investigation into a failed coup attempt on Nov. 26, information minister Chernor Bah said in a statement on Thursday. Koroma is invited to report to the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown within 24 hours, …
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By Loucoumane Coulibaly and Alessandra Prentice KORHOGO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Without pausing to wipe the sweat from their brows, workers in northern Ivory Coast picked cotton by the handful – a crop saved by the use of extra insecticides after a new pest wreaked record damage across West and Central Africa last season. The …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – A trial of an experimental HIV vaccine in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa has been stopped early after preliminary data suggested it would not be effective in preventing infection, according to the trial’s chief investigator. The news is the latest blow to efforts to find an effective vaccine against a virus that …
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(Reuters) – South Africa’s fourth-quarter consumer confidence fell to the lowest in two decades for the festive season, according to a survey released on Thursday, as the country struggles with higher interest rates and a cost-of-living crisis. The consumer confidence index, sponsored by the First National Bank (FNB) and compiled by the Bureau for Economic …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – A West African court on Thursday dismissed a case by Niger’s military junta that sought to lift a raft of sanctions imposed by the regional ECOWAS bloc on the country after a July coup. Soldiers from the Nigerien presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 and went …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt is striving to accelerate the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip, a senior official said on Thursday, after the amount of relief getting through to the Palestinian enclave dipped with the end of the Israel-Hamas truce on Dec. 1. Diaa Rashwan, head of the State Information Service, said Egypt would …
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By Abdiqani Hassan GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) – The parliament of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland state will choose the state’s next leader on Jan. 8, after current leader Said Abdullahi Deni dropped proposed changes to the electoral system that triggered deadly clashes earlier this year. Regional forces and fighters loyal to the opposition fought fierce street battles …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -A container ship collided with a floating bridge in the eastern lane of the Suez Canal on Wednesday but the passage of ships through the waterway was not interrupted, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said. Tugboats helped the One Orpheus after it suffered a fault with its rudder while transiting the canal on …
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