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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Eskom will reduce planned power cuts this week after sufficient progress was made in replenishing emergency generation reserves, the utility said on Sunday. Eskom’s aging power stations run mostly on coal and are highly prone to faults resulting in frequent outages which constrain economic growth. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s …

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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s interim president wants a mutually beneficial solution to end a diplomatic row over 46 Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali, noting that Ivory Coast has given asylum to political figures wanted by his junta, state television said on Saturday. The Ivorian soldiers were detained at Mali’s international airport in the capital, Bamako, …

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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Members of an Islamic State affiliate in Mali killed about 30 civilians in an attack this week on a town in a violence-plagued area bordering Burkina Faso and Niger, a coalition of pro-government militia said late on Friday. Mali has faced instability since 2012, when Islamists hijacked an ethnic Tuareg rebellion in …

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Eskom will be forced to increase planned power cuts this weekend after additional breakdowns overnight, the utility said on Saturday. Having planned cuts of up to 3,000 megawatts (MW), Eskom said it would have to increase these to Stage 4 cuts of up to 4,000 MW until 0500 on Monday. …

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By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) – African ministers meeting in Cairo two months ahead of the COP27 climate summit called on Friday for a sharp expansion of climate financing for their continent while pushing back against an abrupt move away from fossil fuels. Egypt, an oil and gas producer considered highly vulnerable to climate change, …

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By Tim Cocks and Ayenat Mersie JOHANNESBURG/THIKA, Kenya (Reuters) -As condolences poured in from around the world after Queen Elizabeth’s death, there were mixed feelings among some Africans about the monarch and her country’s colonial legacy on a continent where Britain once ruled more than half the territory. Some had fond memories of Britain’s longest …

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(Reuters) -South African utility Eskom will escalate rotating power cuts from Friday afternoon until Monday morning, it said on Friday, citing a loss of generation capacity. The Stage 3 power cuts, which will require up to 3,000 megawatts (MW) be shed from the grid, will last from 1400 local time on Friday until 0500 on …

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By Ngouda Dione NIAGA, Senegal (Reuters) – After days of torrential rain, salt miner Moussa Diare could only watch in despair as flood waters breached a meters-wide gap on the banks of Senegal’s Pink Lake and washed away thousands of dollars worth of salt mounds he had gathered. Senegal, like other countries in the West …

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