COTONOU (Reuters) -France could deliver drones and more sophisticated weapons to Benin to help it tackle a worsening Islamist insurgency that is threatening the region, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday. Macron made the pledge during a joint press conference with Benin’s President Patrice Talon on the second leg of his three-nation tour of Cameroon, …
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(Reuters) -The World Health Organization has confirmed two more cases of Marburg virus in Ghana, a senior WHO official said on Wednesday, two weeks after the country reported its first outbreak of the highly infectious Ebola-like disease. Those first two cases, in southern Ghana’s Ashanti region, both had symptoms including diarrhoea, fever, nausea and vomiting, …
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(Reuters) – South African state power utility Eskom said on Wednesday it was in talks with the Botswana Power Company about the possibility of Eskom importing electricity. “The commercial price and quantum are still the subject of negotiations,” Eskom said in a statement, adding any agreement would be subject to approval by South Africa’s energy …
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(Reuters) – South Africa’s state-owned logistics firm Transnet on Wednesday reported a full-year profit of 5 billion rand ($296.81 million), recovering from a loss of 8.7 billion rand in the previous year, thanks to higher port and pipeline volumes despite capacity problems at its flagship rail unit. Revenue in the year to March 31 was …
LAGOS (Reuters) – The pipeline exporting Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude oil – typically one of the country’s largest export flows – has not carried oil since mid-June due to theft, a source told Reuters on Wednesday. The Trans Niger Pipeline, which carries oil through the swampy southern Delta region to the Bonny export terminal on …
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(Reuters) – South African farmers are expected to harvest 9.8% less maize in the 2021/2022 season compared with the previous season, the government’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on Wednesday. The CEC’s latest summer crop forecast estimates the 2022 harvest at 14.713 million tonnes, down from the 16.315 million tonnes harvested last season. The harvest …
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By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow supported Ethiopia’s efforts to stabilise its internal political situation in remarks that sought to draw a contrast with what he presented as meddling by the West. Lavrov was in Addis Ababa wrapping up a four-nation African tour aimed …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Separate explosions in two southern Somalia towns killed at least five people on Wednesday, including a local administrator, state radio, police and residents said. The al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group said it carried out both attacks. In the first incident, two bombs planted in a livestock market in Afgoye town in …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Regional forces in southeast Ethiopia killed 85 al Shabaab militiamen during border clashes on Monday, the state broadcaster and a regional commander said, days after the insurgents staged rare raids in the area. The fighting adds to the security headaches for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as he tries to quell an …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s former president, Blaise Compaore, has apologised to the family of his late predecessor, Thomas Sankara, whose 1987 murder a military court found him complicit in earlier this year. Compaore was sentenced in April in absentia to life imprisonment for the murder, which occurred during the coup that brought him to …
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