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ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s economic growth slowed slightly to 3.2% year-on-year in the second quarter compared with a downwardly revised 3.3% growth rate in the first quarter, the country’s statistics agency said on Wednesday. The gold-, oil- and cocoa-producing nation has been battling its worst economic crisis in a generation brought on by spiralling public …

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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said he will stand for re-election next year, hoping to extend nearly a quarter of a century in power. Kagame, who became president in 2000, is eligible to continue in office for another decade after a constitutional amendment in 2015 changed term limits that would have forced him …

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said on Tuesday he was seeking to re-establish constitutional order to address political and economic problems in neighboring Niger following a July coup and welcomed any support for the process. Tinubu is chairman of the main West African bloc ECOWAS, which has been trying to negotiate with …

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By Gabriela Baczynska UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The European Union’s executive said on Tuesday that disbursements of humanitarian aid in Somalia were “temporarily suspended” after a U.N. probe found widespread theft and misuse of support meant to avert famine. Quoting senior EU officials, Reuters reported exclusively on Monday that the European Commission had temporarily suspended funding …

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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – Climate Change made the heavy rainfall that led to deadly floods in Libya up to 50 times more likely, scientists said on Tuesday. The powerful Sept. 10 storm caused two dams to break, inundating Libya’s eastern city of Derna and killing thousands of people. Residential blocks built along a …

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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – The Tunisian coastguard said on Tuesday it had intercepted more than 2,500 migrants and arrested dozens of human smugglers following a major crackdown launched last weekend in the coastal region of Sfax, a main departure point for migrants heading to Italy. The operation, which included hundreds of security forces …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. humanitarian office report said on Tuesday that some 400 migrants were killed in the floods that hit eastern Libya last week, citing hospital reports. The report quoted the U.N. health agency, the World Health Organization, as saying that 4,000 deaths had so far been reported in Libya by hospitals, including …

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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s two main opposition leaders on Tuesday filed separate appeals at the Supreme Court challenging a tribunal ruling that earlier this month upheld President Bola Tinubu’s victory in a disputed February election. No legal challenge to the outcome of a presidential election has succeeded in Nigeria, which returned to democracy …

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