By Marafaele Mohloboli MASERU (Reuters) – A recently founded party led by a millionaire diamond magnate looked set on Sunday to win Lesotho’s parliamentary election, having secured enough for a simple majority, according to preliminary results from the election commission. By Sunday afternoon, results from the Oct. 7 vote were in for 49 out of …
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(Reuters) – South African utility Eskom said on Sunday that stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented daily from Monday To Wednesday, at 16:00 till midnight. (Reporting by Juby Babu in Bengaluru;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
By Thiam Ndiaga and Anne Mimault OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Thousands of mourners gathered in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday for the funeral of 27 soldiers killed in an ambush last month that triggered the country’s second coup this year led by a military unit fed up with rampant insecurity. The coffins were wrapped in the …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – The Financial Action Task Force plans to put Democratic Republic of Congo on a list of countries subject to increased monitoring, the country’s Communications Minister Patrick Muyaya said on Saturday. Congo, a major cobalt and copper producer, will go on the global financial crime watchdog’s so-called “grey list” of deficient countries no …
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By Camillus Eboh and Hamza Ibrahim ABUJA (Reuters) – At least 10 people have died and another 60 are missing after a boat capsized in Nigeria’s southeastern Anambra state, officials said on Saturday. The vessel, with 85 people on board, capsized amid heavy flooding, trapping the passengers, Thickman Tanimu, zonal coordinator for the National Emergency …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Seven Djiboutian troops have been killed in clashes between the army and an armed opposition group, a presidential adviser told Reuters on Saturday. Djibouti, home to one of East Africa’s major ports as well as U.S. and Chinese military bases, has faced sporadic violence, usually sparked by protests against the government of …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – An air strike on Friday in a village in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region killed at least five people and injured 37 others, the director of the hospital that received the victims said on Twitter. Ethiopian government spokesperson Legesse Tulu, military spokesperson Colonel Getnet Adane and the prime minister’s spokesperson Billene Seyoum did …
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ACCRA (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Friday that talks with Ghana’s government about a potential loan programme had been constructive but that more work was needed on a debt-sustainability analysis. Ghana approached the IMF for financial support in July as foreign investors dumped its debt and as street protests broke out over …
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BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia’s President Adama Barrow on Friday said a surge in acute kidney injuries likely linked to a paracetamol syrup that killed dozens of children in past months was under control, with only two diagnoses in the last two weeks. Authorities launched a probe last month after doctors in July noticed that a …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -African Union-led peace talks proposed for this weekend to try to end a two-year-old conflict in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been delayed for logistical reasons, Tigray forces and two diplomatic sources said on Friday. Ethiopia’s government and Tigray forces said on Wednesday that they accepted the AU’s invitation to talks in South …
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