By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s journalists’ union said on Tuesday that state television had barred all political parties from entering its buildings or taking part in talk shows since President Kais Saied seized most powers in July. Mehdi Jlassi, who heads the Tunisian National Syndicate of Journalists, told Reuters the restrictions were the first …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African rand strengthened slightly on Tuesday, as the dollar struggled for momentum ahead of U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s congressional hearing later in the day. Powell could give new clues about the timing and pace of policy normalisation by the U.S. central bank. At 1420 GMT, the rand traded at …
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By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) -Power supply has been restored in all parts of Kenya, which earlier experienced a nationwide outage after a high voltage transmission line connecting the capital broke, state-controlled utility Kenya Power said on Tuesday. Kenya Power reported a blackout occurred at 0745 GMT, after towers supporting a high voltage power line …
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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – From 300 to 400 Russian mercenaries are operating in central Mali, a senior French armed forces ministry official said, challenging an assertion by the West African country’s junta https://www.reuters.com/world/mali-denies-deployment-russian-mercenaries-says-only-trainers-present-2021-12-25 that only Russian military trainers are deployed there. Other West African nations have closed their borders with Mali, severed diplomatic …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – The suspect in a fire that gutted parts of South Africa’s 138-year-old parliament building this month was charged with terrorism on Tuesday, appearing in court for a case officials have described as an attack on the country’s democracy. Zandile Mafe, 49, had already been charged with arson in connection with the …
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By Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – On the afternoon of Dec. 30, security forces banged on the windows of Khartoum Teaching Hospital then fired tear gas into an emergency room packed with protesters injured in a nearby demonstration. “We were around the corner trying to hide, it came right past our heads,” said a nurse …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Preliminary findings from two South African clinical trials suggest the Omicron coronavirus variant has a much higher rate of “asymptomatic carriage” than earlier variants, which could explain why it has spread so rapidly across the globe. The studies – one of which was carried out when Omicron infections were surging in South …
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By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon’s oil workers’ union and water and electricity workers’ union began a general strike on Tuesday in protest against COVID-19 restrictions and the cost of PCR tests, they said. “We hereby inform you of the launch of an unlimited general strike which will cover all companies in oil …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – A prominent Ugandan writer and critic of long-ruling leader Yoweri Museveni has been charged with communications offences related to tweets critical of the president and his son, the charge sheet showed on Tuesday. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has been in detention by the military since Dec. 28 when armed men broke …
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By Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The United Nations said it was starting consultations in Sudan on Monday to try to salvage the country’s move to democracy after a military coup. U.N. officials were contacting parties to look for a way forward, and the army had raised no objections to the initiative, U.N. special representative …
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