By Hereward Holland NAIROBI (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he would place a hold on U.S. security assistance to Rwanda in Congress over concerns about the Rwandan government’s human rights record and role in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In a letter to U.S. Secretary …
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By Anait Miridzhanian and Wendell Roelf (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday made fresh pledges to tackle the country’s worst-ever power crisis, promising to expand generation, slash red tape and buy surplus electricity from private producers. Ramaphosa has tried to reform South Africa’s ailing power network since taking office in 2018, but he …
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By Anait Miridzhanian and Wendell Roelf (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday made fresh pledges to tackle the country’s worst-ever power crisis, promising to expand generation, slash red tape and buy surplus electricity from private producers. Ramaphosa has tried to reform South Africa’s ailing power network since taking office in 2018, but he …
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By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisians voted on Monday on a new constitution which critics of President Kais Saied fear will dismantle the democratic gains of the 2011 revolution by handing him nearly total power. The divided opposition urged a boycott, calling Saied’s moves a coup that risks flinging Tunisia back into …
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(Reuters) – South Africa has formally asked the United Arab Emirates to extradite Rajesh and Atul Gupta, brothers who face corruption charges relating to former president Jacob Zuma’s time in power, the justice minister said on Monday. “We can confirm that the extradition request has been duly submitted to the United Arab Emirates’ central authority …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Congo Republic on Monday, the second leg of an African tour aimed at strengthening Moscow’s ties with a continent that has refused to join Western condemnation and sanctions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. African countries, which have a tangled legacy of relations …
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By Ngouda Dione DIOGUE ISLAND, Senegal (Reuters) – Simple wooden structures padded with coconut tree fronds are helping residents of Diogue island in southern Senegal to win back stretches of sandy beach from the Atlantic swells that threaten much of the West African coast. In some areas, half-submerged tree stumps and crumbling abandoned buildings show …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Thirty four people died in central Kenya when their bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a river valley, local media reported on Monday. The Daily Nation and Standard newspapers reported that the incident occurred on Sunday evening in Tharaka Nithi County, when the bus belonging to the Modern Coast company travelling …
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By Edwin Waita LAMU, Kenya (Reuters) – Most Kenyan candidates find their way into politics by navigating the corridors of power in one of the country’s big established parties. Health activist Umra Omar is hoping to plot out her route to office via a different route – through the mangrove swaps and inlets of her …
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By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) – Hamma al-Hammami knows the peril Tunisia risks if it slides back into autocracy, as he and opposition parties warn it may do if President Kais Saied passes his draft constitution in a referendum on Monday. Hammami, a leftist political leader, was repeatedly imprisoned and tortured from …
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