GENEVA (Reuters) – Countries voted on Friday to extend a U.N.-mandated monitoring mission for a war in Ethiopia where investigators have found “reasonable grounds to believe” that parties to the conflict have committed serious rights violations, including war crimes. The resolution brought by the Czech Republic on behalf of the European Union passed with 21 …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The Zambian government said in a presentation to investors on Friday that it hoped it would agree debt relief terms with official creditors by the end of the year or early 2023. Zambia was the first African country to default on its sovereign debt during the COVID-19 era. The presentation also said …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Court of Appeal on Friday ordered public university lecturers to end their strike for better working conditions in the next seven days before it will hear their appeal against a ruling by a lower court. The lecturers, who have been striking since February, last month appealed a lower court ruling ordering …
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By Bhargav Acharya (Reuters) -Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been set free following the expiry of his prison sentence for contempt of court, a government department said on Friday. Zuma received a 15-month sentence last year after he ignored instructions to participate in a corruption inquiry. He handed himself in on July 7 …
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By Marafaele Mohloboli MASERU (Reuters) -Lesotho citizens voted in a parliamentary election on Friday that political analysts said could see the ruling party lose power after years of political instability that the southern African mountain kingdom’s lawmakers have failed to resolve. The election has gone ahead despite a deadlock in parliament on a whole gamut …
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KYIV (Reuters) – A fifth vessel chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has left Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Chornomorsk and will deliver 30,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat to Ethiopia, Ukraine’s infrastructure ministry said on Friday. Ukraine has already shipped around 150,000 tonnes of wheat to Ethiopia, Yemen and Afghanistan under the …
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By Stanley Widianto and Kate Lamb JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is in talks with several African countries, including Nigeria, to export and donate its homemade COVID-19 vaccine, its developer said on Friday, after becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to approve a domestically developed COVID shot. Indonesian approval for the shot, the detailed trial …
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By David Shepardson and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration will begin redirecting U.S.-bound travelers who had been to Uganda within the previous 21 days to five major American airports to be screened for Ebola as public health officials sent an alert to healthcare workers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States accused Russian mercenaries on Thursday of exploiting natural resources in the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and elsewhere to help fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine, a charge Russia rejected as “anti-Russian rage.” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said the Wagner Group of …
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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India said it is testing samples of cough syrups produced by local manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceuticals for export after the World Health Organization said its products were linked to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia. The deaths of 66 children in the West African country could deal …
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