By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -A Nigerian election tribunal will on Wednesday deliver its ruling to petitions challenging the result of a presidential vote that brought Bola Tinubu to power, the court registrar said on Monday. The victory in February for Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress, is disputed by his two main opponents. Atiku …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Africa is heating up at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and enduring more severe climate and weather disasters such as droughts, a joint U.N.-African Union report said on Monday, warning that climate change could stoke conflict over resources. The continent was hit by 80 extreme …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – A focus of the Africa Climate Summit starting in Nairobi on Monday will be how the continent can adapt. Scientists say climate change is causing more intense and more frequent extreme weather events. Below are some of the examples of the record-breaking weather in Africa in recent years. HORN OF AFRICA DROUGHT …
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By Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that an independent inquiry has found no evidence that a Russian ship had collected weapons from the country late last year destined for Russia. In claims that sparked a diplomatic row, the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, told local journalists …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Algeria’s defence ministry said on Sunday its coastguard fired warning shots before firing directly at a man on a jet ski who entered Algerian waters, in an incident that a survivor said left two dead. The incident took place on Tuesday after five men strayed into Algerian waters on jet skis near …
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(Reuters) – The Sudanese army staged a large scale attack on its paramilitary rival’s supply routes on Sunday, eyewitnesses said, as its leader appeared to reject a negotiated solution. The almost five-month war since April 15 has devastated Sudan, worsening hunger, destroying infrastructure, and killing hundreds of civilians. The army sent volleys of air strikes …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria is considering applying to become a member of the G20 bloc of major economies after concluding consultations on the risks and benefits, the president’s spokesperson said on Sunday. President Bola Tinubu will leave on Monday to attend the G20 summit in India at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Police in Uganda said on Sunday they had detained a 28-year-old man entering a church in the capital Kampala with an explosive device he planned to use for an attack there. Authorities were hunting three other men also believed to have been sent on similar bombing missions elsewhere in Uganda, police said. …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Two people were killed and another wounded when their car was ambushed by gunmen in the west of Burundi near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo, residents said on Sunday. The assault took place on Saturday night on the road from Bubanza province to Burundi’s commercial capital Bujumbura, they said. Three …
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BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Four people including two Chinese nationals and a Ghanaian citizen were killed on Friday in an ambush on a Congolese mining company convoy in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a regional administrator said on Sunday. It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack on the four …
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