By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) -Four Kenyan members of parliament were charged on Thursday with unlawful assembly for taking part this week in protests against President William Ruto’s government over the high cost of living, their lawyer said. One person was killed and more than 200 were arrested during Monday’s nationwide demonstrations called by opposition …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Preparations for the first review of Egypt’s economic reform programme with the International Monetary Fund have begun and dates for the review mission will be announced when agreed with the authorities, an IMF spokesperson said on Thursday. The IMF approved in December a $3 billion Extended Fund Facility loan for Egypt, which …
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By Duncan Miriri LONDON (Reuters) – Kenya expects to finish talks for a trade and investment deal with the United States by the end of this year and to sign the agreement by April 2024, Trade Minister Moses Kuria said. Kenya is one of the United States’ top trading partners in Africa and has been …
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By Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian President Kais Saied has caused “enormous concern” about where Tunisia is headed with moves that have weakened democratic checks and balances, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf said on Thursday. After years of efforts to build a democracy “what we’ve seen in the last year and a …
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By Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian President Kais Saied has caused “enormous concern” about where Tunisia is headed with moves that have weakened democratic checks and balances, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf said on Thursday. After years of efforts to build a democracy “what we’ve seen in the last year and a …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife have been found guilty of trafficking a man to Britain to provide his kidney to their ill daughter, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, were found guilty of conspiring to exploit a street trader from Lagos, …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Eight new confirmed cases of Marburg disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. This brings the total of laboratory-confirmed cases to nine and probable cases to 20 since the outbreak of the deadly disease similar to Ebola was declared in February. Twenty deaths have …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China would like to enhance communications with Ghana to seek proper resolution of Ghana’s debt issue, its foreign ministry said on Thursday, Spokesperson Wang Wenbin made the remark in response to a question on Ghana’s finance minister visiting Beijing for a proposed restructuring of Ghana’s debt. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; editing by …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ community are in shock and fear being arrested after parliament passed a new law that makes it a crime to identify as gay, and imposes tough sentences that include the death penalty in certain cases, an activist said on Wednesday. The “Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023” was passed with a …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Uganda’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence. Same-sex relations are legal in only 22 of Africa’s 54 countries, and are punishable by death or lengthy prison terms in …
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