By Dominic Evans SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – In a fenced-off area guarded by police on the fringe of the global climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, around 30 Egyptian youths stood in a neat line holding up placards and chanting “Save our Planet”. The small, muted protest took place in an area designated for demonstrations …
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – The United States is doing “everything it can” to secure the release of Egytian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah from jail in Egypt and President Joe Biden raised the case with his Egyptian counterpart, the U.S. national security adviser said on Saturday. Biden, who flew in to Egypt’s Red Sea resort …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces on Saturday signed an agreement laying out the roadmap for implementation of a peace deal that both sides reached in South Africa this month. The implementation would start immediately and would be “in terms of unhindered humanitarian access in terms of protection of civilians in terms …
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By Valerie Volcovici SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -A few countries have resisted mentioning a global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the official text of the COP27 summit in Egypt, U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry said at the conference on Saturday. “You’re absolutely correct. There are very few countries, but a …
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(Reuters) – Russian fertilizer producer Uralchem-Uralkali has agreed with the Netherlands, Estonia and Belgium to supply cargoes of fertilizers stranded in those countries to Africa, TASS news agency reported on Saturday. It cited Uralchem’s head Dmitry Konyaev as saying the group was “actively working with the U.N. to organise free deliveries to Africa of more …
By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) – An oil supertanker accused by Nigerian authorities of attempting to illegally load crude before leaving its territorial waters is on its way back to the country, a Nigerian Navy spokesman told Reuters on Friday. At the request of Nigerian authorities, Equatorial Guinea detained the Heroic Idun, a vessel capable …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government on Friday said it would release a consignment of 20,000 tonnes of Russian fertilizer that had been stuck in Rotterdam port due to sanctions, following a request from the United Nations. The shipment is due to be sent to Malawi via the World Food Programme, the Foreign Affairs Ministry …
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(Reuters) – The first shipment of donated fertilizers is expected to head to Malawi in the coming week, United Nations officials said on Friday following a meeting with a Russian delegation in Geneva over exports. “The world cannot afford to let global fertilizer accessibility problems become a global food shortage,” the UN said in a …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo said that it expelled a French journalist working for Reuters because she was in breach of immigration rules. Sonia Rolley received a written summons on Tuesday to present herself to immigration police in Kinshasa, who she said confiscated her passport and put her on a flight to Paris …
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By Sarah McFarlane SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -African Union Chairman and Senegal President Macky Sall plans to attend an upcoming G20 summit in Bali, two government officials said on Friday, as Africa looks to hold wealthier nations to account for their climate pledges. The visit, his first to a G20 summit, will follow his attendance …
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