By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s president published a planned new constitution on Thursday that he will put to a referendum next month, expanding his own powers and limiting the role of parliament in a vote most political parties have already rejected. Kais Saied has ruled by decree since last summer, …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) -At least eight protesters were shot dead in Sudan on Thursday, medics said, as large crowds took to the streets despite heavy security and a communications blackout to rally against the military leadership that seized power eight months ago. In central Khartoum, security forces fired tear gas and water cannon in the afternoon …
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By Andrea Shalal, Aislinn Laing and Robin Emmott MADRID (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday the United States will provide another $800 million in weapons and military aid to Ukraine, hailing the courage of Ukrainians since Russia invaded in February. Speaking after a NATO summit that saw the alliance also agree to take in …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – At least 3 Tunisians migrants died and another 3 were missing after their boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a Tunisian civil protection civil official told Reuters. Atef Haouij, a local official in Medenine, said that the boat, which contained 17 Tunisian migrants, …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -About 340 people were killed in an attack in the western part of Ethiopia’s Oromiya region earlier this month, the Prime Minister’s spokeswoman said on Thursday, blaming a militia formerly allied to an opposition party. Oromiya, home to Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group and others, has experienced unrest for many years, rooted in …
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(Reuters) – South Africa is facing its worst power cuts in two years this week as state utility Eskom implements “Stage 6” outages, meaning at least six hours without power a day for most South Africans. Eskom has struggled to meet electricity demand in Africa’s most industrialised economy for over a decade, but the outages …
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By Bhargav Acharya and Nellie Peyton (Reuters) – Africa has no vaccines for monkeypox and test kits are in short supply, international health agencies said on Thursday, warning that richer countries already appeared to be hoarding vaccines. Monkeypox is a viral disease that causes flu-like symptoms and skin lesions. It is endemic in parts of …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Huayou Cobalt on Thursday said it could not immediately commit to producing battery-grade lithium in Zimbabwe after the country’s competition authority made that a condition of its takeover of a lithium mine. China’s biggest cobalt refiner acquired the hard-rock Arcadia lithium mine, just outside the capital Harare, for $422 million earlier this …
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By Johnnie Isaac EAST LONDON, South Africa (Reuters) – South African teenager Sinenjongo Phuthumani had only discovered the joys of drinking in nightclubs with her friends after graduating from school last year. That new passion ended in horror when the 19-year-old watched friends and other partygoers collapse and die on the floor of an east …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -A Polish national taken hostage in Burkina Faso in April was freed last week, the Burkinabe government said late on Wednesday. Rafal Kamil Bednarski was kidnapped in the eastern province of Gourma on April 27 while travelling by bus around the insurgent-hit West African nation, where Islamist militant groups have seized swathes of …
