LIBREVILLE (Reuters) -The leader of a coup that this week overthrew Gabon’s President Ali Bongo said on Friday that he wanted to avoid rushing into elections that “repeat past mistakes”, as pressure mounted on the junta to hand back power to a civilian government. Military officers led by General Brice Oligui Nguema seized power on …
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PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he spoke on a daily basis with Niger’s ousted president Mohamed Bazoum, who has been removed from power in a coup. “I speak every day to President Bazoum. We support him. We do not recognise those who carried out the putsch. The decisions we will …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu plans to attend the G20 summit in India this month to try to promote foreign investment in Africa’s largest economy and mobilize global capital to develop infrastructure, his spokesman said on Friday. Tinubu has embarked on the country’s boldest reforms in decades, which have been …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Eighteen suspected robbers were shot and killed during a shootout with South African police in the Limpopo province, the police said on Friday. Addressing the media from the crime scene in Makhado in South Africa’s northernmost province, national police commissioner Fannie Masemola said the suspects were allegedly planning a cash-in-transit (CIT) heist and …
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By Tim Cocks and Carien du Plessis JOHANNESBURG -Police with sniffer dogs searched through the gutted remains of a Johannesburg apartment block on Friday, as authorities stepped up investigations into the cause of a fire that killed more than 70 people. Officers used razor wire to cordon off areas around the run-down five-storey building that …
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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s main opposition party called on Friday for nationwide protests and a re-run of elections that it said fraudulently handed President Emmerson Mnangagwa a second term in office. The appeal from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) came a day after Mnangagwa said the vote was valid and warned there would be …
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By Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s factory growth accelerated at the fastest pace in three months in August, driven by strong growth in new orders and output, according to a private survey that however also showed job creation was at a four-month low. That is good news for Asia’s third-largest economy, which grew 7.8% …
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Over 40 people were killed and 56 wounded in an army crackdown on violent anti-United Nations demonstrations in eastern Congolese city of Goma on Wednesday, the government said. Congolese troops forcibly dispersed the protest against the U.N. peacekeeping mission and other foreign organisations after footage of an attack on …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – A Russian delegation held talks with Burkina Faso’s interim president Ibrahim Traore on Thursday at a meeting that included discussions on possible military cooperation, the Burkinabe presidency said in a statement. It said the visit, led by Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, was a follow-up to talks between Traore and Russian …
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By Carien du Plessis and Bhargav Acharya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – More than 70 people were killed overnight when a fire raged through a run-down, five-storey Johannesburg apartment block, one of the worst such disasters in a city where poverty, household fires and homelessness are widespread. The building was gutted, blackened by soot and still smouldering …
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