By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea’s junta on Saturday set up an 80-member council to act as a parliament during the country’s transition to elections, according to a decree read on the state broadcaster, following a coup in September that ousted President Alpha Conde. The body, known as the National Transitional Council (CNT), will …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s central bank governor, Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, who has shepherded the east African country’s economy for more than 20 years, has died, the deputy speaker tweeted on Sunday. “The great Icon of our economic journey as a country, a banking genius and a patriot has rested. We shall hold on to his legacy …
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By Diadie Ba and Bate Felix DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal votes in municipal and regional elections on Sunday, amid growing political tensions over whether President Macky Sall will seek to extend his rule beyond the two-term limit in a nation long considered one of Africa’s most stable democracies. For the crowded field of opposition candidates …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – A South African court on Friday postponed a ruling on a lawsuit from descendants of South Africa’s earliest inhabitants, the Khoi and San, to try to halt construction of Amazon’s new Africa headquarters on what they say is sacred land. The 70,000-square metre development in Cape Town includes plans for a …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – The executive board of the International Monetary Fund approved on Friday a three-year extended credit facility worth about $455 million for Congo Republic, the IMF said. The decision will enable an immediate disbursement to the Central African oil producer of about $90 million, it said in a statement. (Reporting by Aaron Ross; …
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By Cooper Inveen and Christian Akorlie APIATE, Ghana (Reuters) -At least 13 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in western Ghana detonated, flattening a rural community, the police said on Friday. Smouldering timber and torn-up sheet metal marked where hundreds of houses had stood in Apiate, …
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By Ange Aboa TENGRELA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Madou Sidibe should be home by now, the cement product in his truck delivered to a client in Mali. Instead he is stranded at a dusty border crossing in neighbouring Ivory Coast, one of hundreds of drivers shut out by economic sanctions. Over the phone from Mali’s …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – At least 11 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while 21 others were rescued by the coastguard, the army spokesman said on Friday. He added the coastguard had recovered five bodies, while the search was still under way for six more drowned. …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – The World Bank has approved a loan of $750 million to South Africa linked to COVID-19, aiming to help protect the poor and support economic recovery from the pandemic, the National Treasury said on Friday. The continent’s second largest economy, South Africa has been hit hard by four waves of infection …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese head of judiciary and judges condemned violence against anti-military protesters in a rare public statement on Thursday, while the United States said it would consider unspecified steps against those holding up efforts to resolve Sudan’s political crisis. At least 72 civilians have died and more …
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