CONAKRY (Reuters) – At least five people were injured after security forces fired at anti-government protesters in Guinea’s capital Conakry on Thursday, an opposition coalition said. Demonstrators pushing for a junta that took power in a September 2021 coup to restore civilian rule set up road blocks across the city and burnt tyres. They clashed …
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By Judicael Yongo BANGUI (Reuters) – The head of Central African Republic’s top court, which has stymied a push to enable President Faustin-Archange Touadera to keep running for office, has defied a government order to retire. The Constitutional Court last month annulled a commission for proposed reforms that would let Touadera, 65, stand for a …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africa’s top public health body said on Thursday there was a risk of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda spreading but that the risk was still manageable at this stage and there was no need for emergency measures yet. (Reporting by James Macharia Chege; Editing by Gareth Jones)
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Protesters in Chad on Thursday looted and set fire to the newly appointed prime minister’s party headquarters, the party’s vice-president said. (Reporting by Mahamat Ramadane; Writing by Sofia Christensen; Editing by Estelle Shirbon)
(Reuters) – The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) has called off its strike at Transnet, ending a boycott that paralysed the state-owned logsitics firm and impacted commodities exports from Africa’s most advanced economy. “We have called off the strike and our members are going back to work tomorrow,” SATAWU spokesperson Amanda Tshemese …
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By Angela Ukomadu Rivers State, Nigeria (Reuters) – People wade through fast-flowing water, holding one another to avoid being swept away, balancing suitcases, clothing and food on their heads. The torrent was, until recently, the East-West Road in Nigeria’s Rivers state, the gateway to the nation’s oil and gas. Now parts of Rivers, along with …
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By Garba Muhammad KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Zamfara state has lifted a ban on five local broadcasters ahead of February’s presidential election, an official said on Wednesday, after the media regulator said shutting them down for covering a political rally was illegal. The northwestern state, which has banned political activity on its territory because …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday there was a “very narrow window now to prevent genocide” in his home region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. Tedros, who previously served as Ethiopia’s health minister and foreign affairs minister, has been sharply critical of Ethiopian authorities throughout the two-year war. …
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ACCRA (Reuters) – Streets were quiet in the normally bustling heart of Accra’s central business district on Wednesday as traders in the Ghanaian capital closed their shops to protest worsening economic conditions. The Ghanaian cedi plummeted to a new low of 12.3 to the dollar on Wednesday, compared to 10.5 last week, as inflation surges …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The eight most recent Ebola cases reported during the outbreak in Uganda have no known links with current patients, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, raising concerns over the spread of the deadly disease. In a briefing, the WHO said initial investigations into the cases by Uganda’s Ministry of Health had …
