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By Edward McAllister DAKAR (Reuters) – African nations must help combat climate change and halt a rise in temperatures that is hitting crop yields and causing flooding and drought in the region, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told a conference in Senegal’s capital on Thursday. At the African Ministerial Conference on Environment in Dakar, Kerry …

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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s president issued an electoral law on Thursday reducing, but not ending, the role of political parties in a reformed parliament that will have fewer powers under a constitution passed in July. Under the new law, voters will choose candidates in the Dec. 17 election individually rather than by selecting a single …

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(Reuters) – Angolan President Joao Lourenco promised to create jobs for the country’s disenfranchised and largely unemployed youth on Thursday, as he was sworn in after an election he acknowledged had been bitterly disputed by the opposition. Angola’s Constitutional Court threw out a complaint filed by the runner-up, opposition party UNITA, in the Aug. 24 …

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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya scrapped a subsidy on petrol a day after new President William Ruto said subsidies were unsustainable, in a move that could add to upward pressure on inflation. Some of the key challenges the new president faces include bringing down the high cost of fuel and food in East Africa’s most dominant …

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The COVID-19 pandemic is still a threat on the African continent given low vaccination rates, the acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday. “The virus is still circulating, and with the low rates of vaccination the pandemic is still very much with us here …

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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – A court in Burkina Faso has found two executives working for Canadian mining firm Trevali guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a flood disaster at its Perkoa zinc mine in April killed eight miners, the company’s country manager said on Wednesday. A Perkoa mine manager was given a 24-month suspended sentence, while a …

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(Reuters) – South Africa’s state power utility Eskom said it would implement “Stage 4” rotational power cuts throughout Thursday and Friday, with the possibility of lower stages from Saturday morning. “In view of the shortage of generation capacity and the need to carry out unplanned maintenance to return units to service, we unfortunately have to …

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By Layli Foroudi (Reuters) – On the second day of her stay at the Marriott Hotel in Sousse, Jannette Mensi waded into the swimming pool only to be told by hotel staff that she would have to get out due to her choice of swimwear — a burkini. “I was shocked, my mind froze – …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt and Qatar signed three memomoranda of understanding, including one between the two nations’ sovereign wealth funds, the Egyptian presidency said on Wednesday during a two-day trip by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Doha. Sisi’s trip to Qatar is his first since Cairo and Doha restored relations last year following a regional diplomatic …

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