By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese security forces used stun grenades and tear gas on Monday to disperse crowds of protesters rallying in Khartoum on the fourth anniversary of the uprising that toppled former leader Omar al-Bashir, a Reuters reporter said. The protests in the capital come two weeks after the military leaders who …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will support the African Union’s entry to the Group of 20 (G20) forum of the world’s largest economies, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday. Kishida said the union’s addition to the G20 was important “given African countries’ increasing role in international society”. Japan also agreed with Senegal on resource development …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The re-election of President Cyril Ramaphosa as leader of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) party suggests continuity in economic policy, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana told reporters. “There has been some worry from the South African people about the economic part, and we have been trying to tell people that what …
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(Reuters) – President Cyril Ramaphosa, the anti-apartheid champion who become one of South Africa’s wealthiest businessmen, survived a challenge for the leadership of his party on Monday, days after he was spared impeachment proceedings over a scandal dubbed “Farmgate”. He took on the presidency in 2018 after being elected party leader in 2017, vowing to …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines expects its passenger business to recover to pre-pandemic levels in its financial year ending in June, its chief executive told Reuters. Africa’s biggest carrier will ferry 12.7 million passengers during the year, Mesfin Tasew Bekele said in an interview, up from 8.6 million passengers in the previous …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected leader of the governing African National Congress (ANC) at a party leadership contest, an ANC official said on Monday. (Reporting by Kopano Gumbi and Alexandwer Winning; Editing by James Macharia Chege)
By Djaffar Al Katanty GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Sitting in the dirt, Valerie Kahindo picks spoiled kernels from a sack of maize – the only job the farmer can find in the eastern Congolese city of Goma after rebel fighters seized her fields and forced her to flee without her family. The …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The low voter turnout in Tunisia’s parliamentary elections reinforces the need for the North African nation to further expand political participation in the coming months, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Sunday. Only 8.8% of Tunisian voters cast ballots in Saturday’s parliamentary elections, the country’s electoral commission announced, after most political …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Judges at London’s High Court will rule on Monday whether the British government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is legal, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stakes his future on stopping a record number of migrant arrivals in small boats. Under a deal struck in …
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By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s ruling African National Congress delegates were engaged in last minute horse-trading as voting for a new party leader pitting President Cyril Ramaphosa against former health minister Zweli Mkhize began on Sunday. The winner, who will run for president under the ANC banner in national elections in 2024, has …
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