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By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Angola’s Constitutional Court made a final ruling on Thursday to dismiss a complaint filed by the runner-up in the Aug. 24 election seeking to annul the results that gave victory to the ruling MPLA. After the country’s most closely fought election, the electoral commission declared last week the People’s …

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TUNIS (Reuters) – At least eight migrants died and another 15 were missing after a boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, State Monastir Radio said. The coastguard rescued 14 migrants who had been on the overcrowded boat, which sank off Chebba town in Mahdia region. A …

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By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Central African countries signed a deal on Thursday to create a regional oil and gas pipeline network and hub infrastructures which backers say will strengthen energy supply and reduce dependence on imports of refined products. The project aims to construct three multinational oil and gas pipeline systems of …

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(Fixes byline) By Tarek Amara and Jihed Abidellaoui TUNIS (Reuters) – Food shortages are worsening in Tunisia with empty shelves in supermarkets and bakeries, adding to popular discontent at high prices and risking unrest as the government tries to stave off a crisis in public finances. There are widespread shortages of sugar, cooking oil, milk …

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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Members of a Nigerian oil workers’ union are threatening to go on strike if the government does not do more to stem widespread oil theft they say is putting their safety at risk and has cut exports by hundreds of thousands of barrels. Workers with the Petroleum and Natural …

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By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union said on Thursday it would provide additional support to an African military mission in Mozambique, as Islamist attacks threaten gas projects meant to reduce the bloc’s reliance on Russian energy. The EU is hunting alternative sources of energy since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and Mozambique has the …

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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa will lift a nationwide ban on the movement of cattle imposed for 21 days in a bid to limit the spread of foot and mouth disease, Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza said in a statement on Thursday. (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; editing by Jason Neely)