LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s state-owned oil firm NNPC Ltd said on Monday an 800,000-litre (211,338-U.S. gallon) vessel carrying stolen crude had been intercepted offshore while heading to Cameroon and would be destroyed as a deterrent to oil theft. Crude theft from pipelines and wells in the Niger Delta has hobbled the country’s output in recent …
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By Ludwig Burger and Maggie Fick (Reuters) -The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is investigating Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug Ozempic and weight-loss treatment Saxenda after Iceland’s health regulator flagged three cases of patients thinking about suicide or self-harm. Shares of the Danish drugmaker fell 1% on Monday following the news. An EMA safety committee is looking …
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By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – An eastern African bloc called on Monday for a regional summit to consider deploying troops into Sudan to protect civilians, after nearly three months of violence between the army and a paramilitary faction. Fighting that erupted on April 15 in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, has spread to other parts …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Residents of South Africa’s biggest city Johannesburg were stunned by the first snowfall in over a decade on Monday, with some children seeing snow for the first time. While parts of South Africa regularly receive snowfall over the southern hemisphere winter months around June to August, Johannesburg last saw snow in August …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia has suspended salary payments for 17,000 teachers and sacked 350 school principals over protests demanding an increase in pay, authorities said on Monday. The salary suspensions could affect about 30% of the country’s primary school teachers, and will escalate the conflict with the powerful UGTT union at a time when the …
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By Dawit Endeshaw MEKELLE, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Curled up on a hospital bed in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, an emaciated little girl struggles to breathe, as her father softly strokes her gaunt face and her mother sits crying. Tsige Shishay, whose pink sweater reads “beautiful” on the front, is 10 years old but weighs just …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) – West African regional bloc ECOWAS has chosen Nigerian President Bola Tinubu as its new chairman at a time of deepening insecurity, including military coups and terrorism, in the region. West Africa has witnessed six successful military coups since 2020, marking a backslide of democracy in a region that had …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – A planned oil pipeline to help Uganda export its crude to international markets has “devastated” the lives of thousands of people who have experienced delayed or inadequate compensation for their land, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday. The rights group also said the project, in which TotalEnergies has a 62% stake, …
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(Reuters) – The Sudanese civil aviation authority extended the closure of Sudan’s airspace until July 31, with the exception of humanitarian aid and evacuation flights with permission from authorities, Khartoum International Airport said on Monday. Sudanese airspace was closed to regular traffic after a military conflict erupted between the country’s army and the paramilitary Rapid …
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon President Ali Bongo will run for re-election in August, he said on Sunday, in a bid to extend his family’s 56-year grip on power in the Central African country. “Because nothing matters more than your success, I am announcing today that I am a candidate”, Bongo told a small crowd of …
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