LAGOS (Reuters) – Growing up, Nigerian artist Oluwajuwonlo Adeyemi saw her mother discard large plastic kegs of cooking oil she used for her catering business in Lagos. Distraught at the thought of adding waste to sprawling dumpsites in a city where only a small fraction of rubbish is recycled, Adeyemi turned them into faces that …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya is set to import its first genetically modified maize, the trade cabinet secretary has said, as the government seeks to ease food shortages caused by the country’s worst drought in 40 years. Local media reported that Kenya will on Friday authorise the duty-free importation of 10 million bags of maize over …
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YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Shell has completed a scheduled maintenance at its 200,000 barrels-per-day Bonga deep water storage and offloading vessel in Nigeria, a spokesperson said. The Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company said in a statement late on Thursday that the maintenance was completed in 22 days, less than the scheduled 30 days. Bonga …
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By Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI (Reuters) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Thursday it was committing $7 billion to Africa over the next four years, as Bill Gates warned that the Ukraine crisis was reducing the amount of aid flowing to the continent. The Foundation’s pledge, which is up 40% on the amount …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A Nigerian soldier shot and wounded a United Nations helicopter co-pilot on Thursday before going on to kill a humanitarian worker and a fellow soldier at a military base in northeastern Nigeria, the army and a witness said. The Nigerian Army said in a statement that one of its members shot …
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(Corrects spelling of law firm to Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in paragraph 9) JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa could produce over five million tonnes of green hydrogen a year by 2040, according to a plan it presented at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt that aims to catapult the world’s 13th biggest polluter into a greener future. …
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PRETORIA (Reuters) – South African civil servants will march to the National Treasury in the administrative capital Pretoria and in the country’s other eight provinces next Tuesday to pressure the government over a wage dispute. The largest trade union federation in the country, COSATU, and other federations representing the majority of the more than 1 …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Russian grain exports could be processed into flour in Turkey and then shipped to Africa to help relieve food shortages there. Speaking on his flight back from the G20 summit in Bali, Erdogan said Russian grain was meant to be delivered to countries such as Mali, Djibouti, …
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By Angus McDowall (Reuters) – As its political stalemate festers, Libya risks sliding back towards civil war with diplomacy at a standstill, politicians thwarting progress towards elections and military leaders including eastern commander Khalifa Haftar threatening violence. A move by forces aligned with the Tripoli government this week to blockade a meeting by a legislative …
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By Pulcherie Adjoha ABOMEY-CALAVI, Benin (Reuters) – Beninese activist Anas Seko, known on social media as “the garbage collector”, is on a mission to raise awareness about plastic waste and environmental protection in his home country in West Africa. Through clean-up campaigns, one-man performances and comical videos on social media, the 25-year-old encourages youths to …
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