By Belén Carreño and Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) -Spain and Morocco have agreed to set aside their differences, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday, as they seek to repair a relationship marked by frequent disputes over migration and territory. Sanchez was speaking at a summit in Rabat where the two countries signed as …
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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s central bank has cut its policy rate by 50 percentage points to 150%, it said in a statement on Thursday, driven by a downward trend in inflation since late last year. Monthly inflation fell to 1.1% in January from 2.4% in December, while yearly inflation dipped to 229.8% from 243.8%. “The …
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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Chadian President Mahamat Deby, in Israel to open an embassy on Thursday, heard his hosts’ concern about what they described as the clout of their arch-foes Iran and Hezbollah in Africa’s Sahel region. Israel only confirmed Deby’s visit on Wednesday, a day after he arrived. The trip included a …
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(Reuters) – Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals Ltd on Thursday said that a worker died and another was injured at its Trident operations in Zambia, following a traffic accident involving a dump truck and a light vehicle in the Sentinel open pit. Operations in the pit have been temporarily suspended until deemed they can resume …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – More than 11,000 Nigerians from the oil-producing Niger Delta have filed a compensation claim against Shell at the London High Court, the latest step in a case that will test whether multinationals can be held to account for the actions of overseas subsidiaries. In 2021, the UK Supreme Court allowed a group …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Three people were shot dead and another one died in a hospital after gunshots were fired in KwaMashu township, north of South Africa’s Durban, police said on Wednesday. Five more people with gunshot wounds were rushed to a clinic, said Robert Netshiunda, a police spokesperson in the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal. “It …
(Reuters) – Gunmen in north central Nigeria have killed eight people, including a divisional police chief, in the latest violence ahead of a presidential and parliamentary election later this month, police and a security source said on Wednesday. Insecurity is a big issue for voters in a country where armed gangs terrorise people in villages …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington is deeply concerned over the release this week of a Sudanese man facing the death penalty in connection with the killing of a U.S. diplomat in 2008, the State Department said on Wednesday. Abdelraouf Abuzeid was found guilty, along with others, in the killing of American John Granville and a Sudanese …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Top leaders of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya on Wednesday agreed to begin “search and destroy” operations to push al Shabaab militants out of neighbouring Somalia. The move follows an intensified offensive by Somalia’s federal government against the al Qaeda-affiliated group over the past few months. It has taken back control of several …
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By Philip Pullella and Estelle Shirbon KINSHASA (Reuters) -Pope Francis heard harrowing accounts from victims of conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, including rape, amputation, forced cannibalism and sexual slavery, and he condemned the atrocities as war crimes. In a poignant encounter at the Vatican’s embassy in the capital Kinshasa, victim after victim …
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