ABIDJAN (Reuters) – An entrepreneur in Ivory Coast has created the country’s first locally-made smartphone, which aims to improve accessibility with voice commands in local languages for users who can’t read and write. The phone, called “Open G”, went on sale last month in the West African country. It can understand commands and respond in …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – The United States will turn over to Nigeria $23 million taken by former military ruler Sani Abacha, officials said at an event to sign the agreement on Tuesday. Nigeria has reached several agreements to return stolen cash in recent years. Abacha ruled Africa’s most populous nation and top oil exporter from 1993 …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The United Nations Libya mission said on Tuesday it was deeply concerned by what it called an ongoing mobilisation of forces and threats to use force to resolve the country’s political crisis. Libya has been enmeshed in a stalemate for months after the eastern-based parliament swore in a new prime minister despite …
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A group of Kenyans filed a case against the British government at the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday over what it said was colonial-era land theft, torture and mistreatment. The Kenyans are seeking an investigation and redress for crimes they say were committed in western Kenya’s Kericho region, now one …
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(Corrects spelling of “bespectacled” in first paragraph) By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) -Peter Obi is hardly a political outsider, but the bespectacled former governor says he is looking to harness Nigerians’ anger with the status quo to power his third-party presidential bid. Obi, 61, has generated substantial buzz among younger voters in Africa’s most populous …
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By Catarina Demony and Sisipho Skweyiya LUANDA (Reuters) – Two years ago, Francisco Mapanda and Arante Kivuvu were jobless during the COVID-19 pandemic so they started selling whiskey and cigarettes under a bridge in Angola’s capital, Luanda. To ease the boredom, they read books, and when they realised others also wanted to read, they …
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By Leandro Lima and Catarina Demony LUANDA (Reuters) – Angolan presidential candidates on Monday wrapped up a month-long campaign ahead of this week’s election which is likely to be a tense standoff between a ruling party in power for decades and an opposition with growing appeal among youth. The MPLA, led by João Lourenço since …
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Eastern-based Libyan forces said on Monday they had shot down a drone near Benghazi’s Benina airport after footage circulated on social media showing a burning object fall from the sky and explode in a field. A senior officer in Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) said in a statement posted on …
DAKAR (Reuters) – A new case of Ebola virus has been confirmed in the city of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s National Institute for Biomedical Research said on Monday. Genetic sequencing showed the case is linked to the 2018-2020 outbreak in North Kivu province, the institute said. (Reporting by Nellie Peyton; …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – In a country once known for political interference in the judiciary, Kenya’s Chief Justice Martha Koome is no pushover: she built her career defending dissidents, and this year her court torpedoed constitutional changes proposed by the president who appointed her. But her own reputation for independence and fairness is …
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