(Reuters) – South Africa’s state power utility Eskom reported a fire at its Grootvlei power station on Saturday due to a leak in the fuel oil supply or return pipeline. There were no injuries. “The fire was contained and extinguished within an hour with no injuries sustained,” Eskom said in a statement on Sunday. Eskom …
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YAOUNDE (Reuters) – A four-storey building collapsed in Cameroon’s commercial capital Douala, killing at least 12 people and injuring others, the regional governor said on Sunday. The building, located in the city’s eastern Ange Raphael neighbourhood, caved in around midnight. “Twelve died and the others are in hospital for medical attention,” the governor of the …
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ROME (Reuters) – The European Union’s pact with Tunisia can serve as a model for other countries, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday, as the EU struggles to stem unauthorised flows of migrants across the Mediterranean. The EU and Tunisia last week signed a “strategic partnership” deal that includes cracking down …
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – At least 13 people including nine children were killed when a soldier in east Democratic Republic of Congo opened fire on people gathered to mourn his deceased child on Saturday night, the army and a local official said on Sunday. The shooting occurred in the village of Nyakova …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – At least six migrants died after their boat sank off Morocco, the MAP state news agency said on Friday on its Facebook page. It added that the boat struck rocks and the six people drowned. Forty-eight others survived. Authorities launched search operations. (Reporting by Tarek Amara; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
By Pap Saine BANJUL (Reuters) -Gambia’s government is “far advanced” in exploring avenues for potential legal action against Indian drugmaker Maiden Pharmaceuticals and a local distributor over toxic cough syrups believed to have killed dozens of children, it said on Friday. At least 70 children in Gambia, most under 5 years old, died from acute …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Algeria has applied to join the BRICS group and submitted a request to become a shareholder member of BRICS Bank with an amount of $1.5 billion, Ennahar TV quoted Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as saying. It added that Tebboune said at the end of his visit to China that Algeria had sought …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Armed men attacked a Doctors Without Borders group in Sudan as the aid workers delivered medical supplies to a hospital in the capital city, the medical charity said on Friday amid months-long fighting between the nation’s army and paramilitary forces. The attackers violently assaulted a team of 18 people working for the …
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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Mediterranean and Middle East countries will meet in Rome on Sunday to boost efforts to stem illegal migration flows, with Italy saying the aim is to help countries in Africa in order to reduce the impetus for migrants to reach Europe. The meeting will focus on building partnership for …
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By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will seek to confiscate 101.5 million pounds ($130 million) from James Ibori, a former Nigerian state governor who abused his office to get rich and laundered millions in Britain and elsewhere, under a court order issued in London on Friday. Here is a timeline of Ibori’s complicated legal …
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