UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Deputy U.N. Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Friday she was deeply shaken by accounts of rape from Ethiopian women, which she described as “your worst nightmare.” Speaking to reporters in New York a day after returning from Ethiopia, Mohammed said she had been left near tears while hearing what the women …
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By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -The death toll from Cyclone Batsirai in Madagascar jumped to 120 on Friday from 92 reported earlier this week, the state disaster relief agency said. The cyclone hit the Indian Ocean island late on Saturday, slamming the southeastern coastline before receding late on Sunday. The disaster relief agency said that …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s economic recovery remains fragile and growth is expected to hold below 2% in the medium term because of policy uncertainty, high public debt and constraints to investment, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday. In a statement issued at the end of discussions with South Africa, the IMF said the …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan on Friday denounced Western criticism of the arrest of two high-profile former officials opposed to military rule and charged with corruption, saying it was contrary to “diplomatic norms and practices”. Khalid Omer Yousif and Wagdi Salih were arrested on Wednesday, a move Norway, the United States, Britain, the European Union, Canada, …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s National Treasury said on Friday it was more optimistic than the International Monetary Fund on the medium-term economic growth outlook, after the IMF said it expected a “lacklustre” performance. “The National Treasury acknowledges the difficult juncture South Africa is at,” it said in statement, adding that it believed medium-term growth …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and the Gates Foundation are set to announce a package of financial support for the nascent African Medicines Agency (AMA) in a bid to boost the continent’s drugs and vaccine production, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. The treaty establishing AMA came into force in November but …
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By Aaron Ross BISSAU (Reuters) – In October, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo told French radio that drug trafficking and corruption were over in Guinea-Bissau, a country that has struggled to shake off its reputation as a “narco state” of West Africa. Those words rang hollow a few months later. Fierce gunfire interrupted a cabinet meeting …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, said on Friday that the world was not yet at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as there would be more coronavirus variants. “We have seen the virus evolve, mutate … so we know there will be more variants, more variants of concern, …
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By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – China cannot dictate who Somaliland can have relations with as it was a sovereign nation and “born free”, the foreign minister of the breakaway Somali region said on Friday during a trip to Taiwan which has been condemned by Beijing. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has …
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By Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah and El Tayeb Siddig OMDURMAN/AL-HAMADAB, Sudan (Reuters) -Hundreds of truck drivers are stuck in a blockade of a major export route out of Sudan into Egypt, hampering exports of camels and other livestock as opposition to a military takeover has fuelled festering grievances over trade. The blockade of the route known …
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