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Windhoek (Reuters) – Namibia’s pandemic-ravaged tourism sector on Tuesday launched a campaign to encourage its employees to get inoculated against COVID-19 as vaccine hesitancy threatens to derail the sector’s revival. According to the World Health Organisation, Namibia is one of four countries – including Angola, Eswatini and Lesotho – in the southern African region that …

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RABAT (Reuters) – Inflation, driven by an increase in the cost of imported products and an improvement in domestic demand, will continue to undermine the purchasing power of Moroccans this year, the planning agency said on Tuesday. Inflation is expected to remain at 2021’s level of 1.8% this year, compared with 0.8% in 2020, the …

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By Bate Felix DAKAR (Reuters) – The European Union and partners do not intend to isolate Mali and its military-led government, the EU’s special envoy to the Sahel said, calling for talks despite a plan to severely sanction the country for failing to organize elections. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) hit Mali …

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By Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Weather conditions last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa growing regions were encouraging for the growth of the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.  Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, is in its November to March dry season, when downpours are scarce.  Farmers said the trees had …

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By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) – Former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was ousted by the military in 2020 after a turbulent seven-year rule, has died, officials said on Sunday. He was 76. Known by his initials IBK, Keita ran the West African country from September 2013 until August 2020, during which Islamist insurgents …

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