OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Canadian mining firm Trevali will close its Perkoa zinc mine in Burkina Faso, a company official told Reuters on Friday, following a flood at the mine in April that killed eight workers. The miners drowned in the underground passages of the mine in Sanguie province after unexpected torrential rain during the West …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) – A consortium led by Ethiopian Airlines is the preferred bidder for shares in new Nigerian airline Nigeria Air, the country’s aviation minister said on Friday. The airline was one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 election campaign promises. Ethiopian Airlines will own a 49% stake in the new airline, while …
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By Edward McAllister DAKAR (Reuters) – The world’s longest-standing leader, President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, will run for office again in November elections, his party announced on Friday, likely extending a 43-year tenure that began when he snatched power in a 1979 coup. The rule of Obiang, 80, has been marked by torture of …
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CONAKRY (Reuters) – West Africa’s main political and economic bloc imposed more sanctions on Guinea’s ruling junta on Thursday for failing to establish a new schedule for a transition to democracy, the bloc said in a press release. In an extraordinary summit held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) -Three more Ebola patients have died in Uganda, the health ministry said on Friday, bringing the total death toll to four, days after authorities confirmed an outbreak of a strain of the deadly disease for which no vaccine has yet been approved. Uganda’s health ministry said it had confirmed 11 cases of Ebola …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African state-owned utility Eskom said on Friday that it would reduce the level of scheduled power cuts over the weekend and that more outages were probable next week. Eskom said in a statement that electricity cuts would be lowered from the current “Stage 5” to “Stage 4” on Saturday morning at 0500 …
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BANGUI (Reuters) -Central African Republic’s top court has annulled a commission for constitutional reforms in a blow to President Faustin-Archange Touadera’s push for the removal of term limits so he can keep running for office, the court’s president said on Friday. Allies of Touadera proposed in May that the constitution be changed to remove presidential …
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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police said on Friday they had detained two Liberian government officials over the alleged rape of two teenagers in South Korea. The men, in their 30s and 50s, respectively, were arrested on the spot at a hotel in the southeastern city of Busan on Thursday after a …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – An air strike in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region killed one person on Friday, a hospital chief executive said, the latest in a series of strikes since fighting resumed late last month. Kibrom Gebreselassie of the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle told Reuters a drone attack on the city’s Adi …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – An air strike in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region killed one person on Friday, a hospital chief executive said, the latest in a series of strikes since fighting resumed late last month. Kibrom Gebreselassie of the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle told Reuters a drone attack on the city’s Adi …
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