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TOBRUK, Libya (Reuters) -Libya’s divisions seemed poised to deepen on Thursday as the eastern-based parliament named a new prime minister, with the incumbent refusing to step aside. The move threatens https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/libyas-politics-are-broken-war-not-seen-inevitable-2022-02-09 to plunge Libya back to the split between two warring, parallel administrations that governed from 2014 until a unity government was installed last year …

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By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday his country needed fundamental change to revive economic growth, by tackling corruption and the endemic poverty, inequality and unemployment deepened by chronic power cuts and COVID-19. Addressing the many troubles that have plagued Africa’s most industrialised nation in the past decade …

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By Aaron Ross and Alberto Dabo BISSAU (Reuters) -Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Thursday that three people previously arrested by U.S. authorities for drug trafficking were behind an attempted coup last week. Former navy admiral Bubo Na Tchuto and his aides Tchamy Yala and Papis Djeme were arrested in 2013 in a high-profile …

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) -A source close to Libya’s interim prime minister said early on Thursday that the premier had survived an assassination attempt overnight, but authorities made no public statement on the matter. The source said the incident happened as Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah was returning home, describing it as a clear assassination attempt. The source …

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DAKAR (Reuters) -The European Union has earmarked over 150 billion euros ($170 billion) for investments in Africa under a global fund launched to offer an alternative to Chinese money, the European Commission said on Thursday. The investment would take up half of the EU’s 300-billion-euro Global Gateway scheme, which that was launched in December with …

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