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PARIS (Reuters) – Transparency International has called for an investigation of possible criminal actions in Madagascar’s lychee trade – historically an important part of the country’s agricultural industry – the anti-corruption group said on Thursday. The group has sent submissions to the office of France’s national financial prosecutor and Madagascar’s anti-graft court, it added in …

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By Virginia Furness and Simon Jessop SHARM EL-SHEIKH (Reuters) – A group of over 85 insurers in Africa has pledged to create a financing facility to provide $14 billion of cover to help the continent’s most vulnerable communities deal with climate disaster risks such as floods and droughts. The commitment to create the African Climate …

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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would keep pressing Egypt over imprisoned Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has had no contact with his family since he said he would stop drinking water this week. Sunak, who raised the case with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at …

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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – A South African court has overturned an earlier order halting construction of Amazon’s new African headquarters in Cape Town after some descendants of the country’s earliest inhabitants said the land it would be built on was sacred. In March the court agreed to halt the project, saying that in the absence …

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By Desire Danga and Mahamat Ramadane DANA, Cameroon (Reuters) – Souloukna Mourga plodded through his flooded millet and cotton field in northern Cameroon and uprooted soggy stems that had a few bolls on them. All six hectares of mostly dead crops were under water. The 50-year-old father of 12 is one of an estimated 4 …

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By Wendell Roelf MATJIESFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) – A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond, space agency officials said Tuesday. Through its Artemis programme, which aims to land the first woman or person …

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WINDOEK (Reuters) – Namibia said at the COP27 summit on Tuesday that it had secured over 540 million euros ($544 million) in climate finance from the Dutch government and European Investment Bank. One of the world’s sunniest and least densely populated countries, Namibia wants to produce green hydrogen and position itself as a renewable energy …

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LONDON (Reuters) – BP has signed an agreement with Mauritania to explore ways to develop low-carbon hydrogen on a large scale in the West African country, the British energy company said on Tuesday. The memorandum of understanding, which does not include a time frame or targets for the project, aims to build on BP’s presence …

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