By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – He dared to challenge the authority of Vladimir Putin. Two months later, he was dead. Yevgeny Prigozhin, who Russian authorities said was killed in a plane crash north of Moscow on Wednesday, led his Wagner private army out of the shadows and on to the frontlines of Russia’s war …
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By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabonese President Ali Bongo has campaigned for re-election in remote corners of the rainforested nation this month, seeking to dispel opposition claims he lacks the strength and track record to fulfil generous electoral promises in a third term. The Central African state holds presidential, legislative and local elections …
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By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – When a British economist coined the BRIC acronym two decades ago to denote Brazil, Russia, India and China, he didn’t have in mind an alliance that would seek to challenge Western dominance in global affairs. Jim O’Neill, then a Goldman Sachs banker, was writing about investment opportunities in nations …
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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -A two-storey building collapsed in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja late on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens, the city’s emergency agency said. Thirty-seven people were rescued from beneath the rubble, and evacuated for treatment, Abbas Idris, head of the emergency agency, told reporters on Thursday. “We …
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(Reuters) -Sudan’s army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, appeared in a video circulated by the army on Thursday outside of the army command compound in Khartoum for the first time since the beginning of a war more than four months ago. The army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for control of …
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(Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday said the BRICS countries support the inclusion of the African Union in the Group of 20 nations. He spoke during a news conference in Johannesburg. (Reporting by Sergio Goncalves, editing by Inti Landauro and John Stonestreet)
HARARE (Reuters) -Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, is trying to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the governing ZANU-PF party in presidential and parliamentary elections on Wednesday. Although many voters say they are hungry for change from relentless economic chaos, analysts warn the odds are heavily skewed against Chamisa, who narrowly lost to Mnangagwa in …
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By Nelson Banya and Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) -Zimbabwe has extended voting in selected wards by a day after the late distribution of ballot papers delayed polling, according to a presidential decree issued late Wednesday. Voters in the southern African country waited for hours to vote on Wednesday, saying they were hungry for change from …
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By Carien du Plessis and Krishn Kaushik JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A deal to expand the BRICS group of leading developing countries appeared stuck in eleventh hour negotiations at a leaders summit on Wednesday, threatening to undermine the bloc’s ambition to give the “Global South” more clout in world affairs. Agreement to expand BRICS – currently Brazil, …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian authorities transferred prominent publisher and political activist Hisham Kassem to a prison on Wednesday awaiting trial on slander and verbal assault charges, his lawyer told Reuters. Kassem is a leader of al-Tayar al-Hurr, or Free Current, a liberal group formed in June in opposition to the government of President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who …
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