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By Tife Owolabi PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian civil servant and mother of four Grace Ekang has been having chest pains lately, and when she sneezes, black stains appear on her handkerchief. Inside her house in the Rivers state city of Port Harcourt, Ekang has noticed that the black soot gathering on her floor …

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By Paul Lorgerie BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali has accused France’s military of deliberately dividing the West African country and of committing espionage during its fight against Islamist militants, in the latest verbal volley that has seen relations spiral in recent weeks. Choguel Maiga, appointed interim Prime Minister following a coup last year, did not provide …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday that 13 million people across the Horn of Africa face severe hunger, calling for immediate assistance to avoid a repeat of a famine a decade ago that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Three failed rainy seasons have created the driest conditions since the …

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By Frank Phiri CHIRADZULU, Malawi (Reuters) – Malawian musician Giddes Chalamanda had never dreamed in his 92 years that he might one day be famous enough to dine with the president followed by a night in a luxury hotel. Last month the singer did both, thanks to his unlikely new stardom on TikTok, a social …

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s year-on-year inflation edged down to 34.5% in January from 35.1% in the previous month, the statistics office said on Tuesday. Inflation in the Horn of Africa nation has soared since the second half of last year, partly due to fighting in the north between federal troops and Tigrayan forces. On …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said the Russian state had nothing to do with Russian military contractors working in Mali, adding that the African country had the right to work with private Russian firms. Putin, speaking at a news conference after talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, said there were no complaints from …

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Thousands of Sudanese marched against military rule on Monday in Khartoum and other cities, a Reuters reporter said, with some voicing concern about the return to government of members of the ousted regime of ex-president Omar al-Bashir. In the capital, security forces firing repeated rounds of tear gas blocked protesters trying to …

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