FREETOWN (Reuters) -Sierra Leone’s leading opposition candidate has called for the country’s electoral commissioners to resign a week before a presidential poll, saying his party did not believe in their ability to hold free and fair elections. Samura Kamara, head of the All People’s Congress (APC) party, said he wanted the chief electoral commissioner and …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has today travelled to Poland en route to Ukraine and Russia as part of an African peace mission, his office said on Thursday. Ramaphosa will meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ukraine on Friday and with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Saturday. (Reporting by …
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By Promit Mukherjee and Carien du Plessis JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s finance ministry has appointed a consultant to come up with a plan by August to allow utility Eskom to accept billions in loans designed to help it cut its carbon emissions when the government has blocked it from taking on new debt. Wealthy …
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By Rachel Savage and Libby George JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) – Nigeria’s new president, in office for less than a month, is pushing to put Africa’s largest economy on a reform track that investors have eyed for decades, fuelling excitement that money could flow to a nation that many had deemed uninvestible. President Bola Tinubu’s bold actions, …
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(This June 14 story has been refiled to add the word “association” in paragraph 19) By Adam Makary CAIRO (Reuters) – Kidney dialysis patients are dying and dead bodies have been left to decompose in a morgue and in city streets as Sudan’s war rages on, despite efforts by volunteers and aid workers to keep …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday suspended the head of the economic and financial crimes unit Abdulrasheed Bawa indefinitely for abuse of office, the presidency said in a statement. The move came a week after the president suspended the country’s central bank governor Godwin Emefiele. A spokesman for the economic and financial …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Fighting rocked several cities in western Sudan on Wednesday in an expansion of the country’s almost two-month-old war as a regional governor was killed after publicly blaming the deaths of civilians on the country’s paramilitary force. The conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has caused a humanitarian crisis in …
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By Ngouda Dione THIES, Senegal (Reuters) – In a dusty alleyway in the Senegalese city of Thies, Japanese wrestler Shogo Uozumi lay face-down in the sand after being tossed in the air by an oversized opponent. Uozumi then rose to his feet, dusted himself off and rejoined the surrounding group of wrestlers wearing loincloths. Back …
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By Aidan Lewis and Khalid Abdelaziz CAIRO (Reuters) – Shooting their way through truces, Sudan’s warring factions have shown the limited leverage the United States, Saudi Arabia and other foreign powers have in ending a two-month conflict that is driving the nation deeper into disaster. Neither the army nor the paramilitary Rapid Response Forces (RSF) …
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(Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebels allegedly executed scores of villagers and militia members between November and April and buried their bodies in mass graves, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, accusing Rwanda of backing the group. The Tutsi-led M23 staged a major offensive in Congo’s restive east last year, triggering an …
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