(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Egypt to participate in the COP27 United Nations climate change summit on Nov. 11, where he will call on the world to act “in this decisive decade”, the White House said on Friday. Biden will then travel to Cambodia from Nov. 12-13 to participate in the …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Tigray region has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization officials said on Friday, warning that many deaths were probably going unrecorded from preventable and treatable diseases. The conflict that has pitted Ethiopia’s army against forces from the country’s northern region …
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By Christophe Van Der Perre MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Racing against time, a yellow tuk-tuk collected nine-year-old Salaeh Mohammed from an internally displaced persons camp and rushed him to a cholera treatment centre in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri. The three-wheeler pulled up to a white tent where two health workers in gumboots and …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A former top executive of South African state power utility Eskom was arrested on Thursday along with seven others on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering over the construction of the Kusile coal power station, authorities said. Eskom’s former interim CEO Matshela Koko and the other accused appeared in a magistrate’s …
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ACCRA (Reuters) -A coalition of Ghana’s ruling party members of parliament have called off demands that finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta be removed from office until a support package is negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) said in the statement on Wednesday that President Nana Akufo-Addo told them “their …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Two organisations from Ethiopia’s Oromiya region have accused the army of conducting air strikes there in recent days which they said had killed hundreds of civilians, just as peace talks on the separate Tigray conflict were about to start. Government and army spokespersons did not respond on Thursday to requests for comment …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africa’s top public health body said on Thursday that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was “not getting out of hand” and that it was still under control, despite an increase in cases that have spread to the capital Kampala. (Reporting by James Macharia Chege; Editing by Alexander Winning)
BEIJING (Reuters) – Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan will visit China from Nov. 2-4, Chinese state television reported on Thursday. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Writing by Bernard Orr; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Nigeria’s bid to claim compensation from a British subsidiary of mining and trading group Glencore over bribes paid to officials at Nigeria’s state oil company was denied by a London court on Wednesday. Lawyers representing the country told London’s Southwark Crown Court that Nigerian officials should be permitted to …
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By Nellie Peyton DAKAR (Reuters) -Burkina Faso’s interim President Ibrahim Traore has assured U.S. diplomats that he has no intention of inviting Russian Wagner forces to fight militants in the country, U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday. There has been concern that Burkina Faso might follow the lead of neighbouring …
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