DAKAR (Reuters) – A French national was among six people killed during an ambush on park rangers in northern Benin on Tuesday, according to three security sources with knowledge of the attack. Five rangers and a soldier were killed and 10 others wounded when unknown militants raided the patrol in W National Park, the South …
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By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Rising government debt levels and global interest rates are increasing the risk of credit rating downgrades in as many as 10 African countries, Fitch has warned, with Kenya, Ghana, Lesotho, Namibia, Rwanda and Uganda most at threat. In a new report published on Thursday, Fitch forecast that debt-to-GDP ratios …
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By Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) – A move by Libya’s parliament to oust Interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, who had promised not to use his stand-in position for political advancement, is testament to his success in doing just that. A reported assassination attempt on Dbeibah overnight came a day after he vowed not to cede …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The World Health Organization estimates that the number of COVID-19 infections in Africa could be seven times higher than official data suggests, while deaths from the virus could be two to three times higher, its regional head said on Thursday. “We’re very much aware that our surveillance systems problems that we had …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda said on Thursday it considered as “unfair and wrong” an International Court of Justice ruling asking it to pay $325 million in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo for its role in conflicts in Congo’s resource-rich Ituri province. In Wednesday’s ruling, the court said Uganda must pay the …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africa’s efforts to build up capacity to manufacture vaccines against COVID-19 are not designed to meet this year’s needs but are for the longer term, the head of the continent’s top public health agency said on Thursday. “The efforts that are going on on the continent now as part of the African …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africa’s top public health agency is still talking to pharmaceutical firms Merck and Pfizer about obtaining supplies of their antiviral pills to treat COVID-19, its director said on Thursday. “We are still in discussions with both Pfizer and Merck, so there’s no new development that I can share. These discussions take long,” …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is now the dominant COVID-19 variant in South Africa and has been detected in multiple other African countries, the head of the continent’s top public health body said on Thursday. “We have data from South Africa that the BA.2 lineage has now become the predominant variant in …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – A Ugandan author who had spent nearly a month in jail after criticising President Yoweri Museveni has fled the country, the lawyer said on Wednesday. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, an internationally acclaimed writer, was released from jail in late January after being detianed in late December for communications offences related to …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Two prominent Sudanese political figures who held top positions in the civilian administration before a military takeover in October have been arrested, their Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition said in a statement on Wednesday. The arrests mark an extension of a crackdown on critics of the military …
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