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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Somaliland has “huge” investment potential in untapped oil and gas reserves, the foreign minister of Somalia’s breakaway region told Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday, pitching investment opportunities on a high-profile visit. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has not gained widespread international recognition for its independence. The region has …

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DAKAR (Reuters) – President Macky Sall of Senegal awarded a special cash prize, prime real estate, and the country’s highest order to the men’s soccer team as the country continued to celebrate their victory in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations final against Egypt. Senegal’s first win of the coveted trophy it has been chasing for …

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah said he would defy a planned vote in parliament to replace him on Thursday, raising the prospect of two rival governments running in parallel. Dbeibah has repeatedly said the transitional Government of National Unity (GNU) that he heads remains valid despite the collapse in December of …

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DAKAR (Reuters) – At least 30 Islamist militants were killed and dozens of vehicles and weapons destroyed during joint operations between the French-led Takuba task force and Malian soldiers last week, the French Army Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. During the main operation on Feb. 3, a column of fighters on motorbikes was …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union said on Tuesday it was lifting its freeze on financial support to Burundi, noting a more open political climate and the return of refugees in the central African country under new President Evariste Ndayishimiye. The decision, which opens the way for the bloc to restart financing to Burundi’s state …

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By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) – Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had filed a joint lawsuit with digital banking company Chime against two Nigeria-based individuals who engaged in phishing attacks to deceive people and gain access to their online financial accounts. The lawsuit, which is the first joint complaint between Meta and a …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s development banks provided $23 billion in financing for infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa from 2007 to 2020, more than double the amount lent by such banks in the United States, Germany, Japan and France combined, a new study showed. The Center for Global Development think tank said a …

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By Jihed Abidellaoui TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian history enthusiast is making dye from sea snail shells inspired by a school project decades ago on ancient Carthage and the purple colouring that brought fabulous wealth to the classical world. Mouhamad Ghassen Nouira works from a hut in his garden to process murex snails using techniques …

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