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By Tarek Amara and Tom Perry TUNIS (Reuters) – President Kais Saied looks on course to tighten his grip on Tunisia through a constitutional referendum in July, but it could prove to be a poisoned chalice as the economy sinks deeper into crisis and opposition to his rule widens. Nearly a year since Saied began …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Mali vowed on Wednesday to defy a United Nations Security Council call for the West African country to allow freedom of movement for peacekeepers to investigate human rights abuses. The council extended a nine-year-old U.N. peacekeeping operation – known as MINUSMA – for another 12 months on Wednesday …

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By Tannur Anders and Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Twenty-one youngsters found dead in a tavern on South Africa’s east coast over the weekend may have died by poisoning from a gas leak, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday. The deaths of the youths in a popular nightspot outside the city of …

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By Nqobile Dludla and Anait Miridzhanian JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s small businesses, still reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and squeezed by inflation at a five-year peak, are now under further strain during the worst power cuts in over two years. Struggling state electricity company Eskom implemented so-called “Stage 6” outages, meaning …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Owners of the Nile’s famous houseboats in the heart of Egypt’s capital are having their homes demolished and towed away as authorities impound what they say are unlicensed dwellings. The boats, many of them elegant two-story structures with verandas, have been moored for decades along the tree-lined banks of the Nile between …

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The bodies of 20 migrants who got lost in the Libyan desert near Chad have been found, the ambulance service said on Wednesday, showing pictures of them lying around a black pick up truck on the sand. The bodies were discovered by a truck driver travelling through the desert and were recovered …

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By Nqobile Dludla and Anait Miridzhanian JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s small businesses, still reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and squeezed by inflation at a five-year peak, are now under further strain during the worst power cuts in over two years. Struggling state electricity company Eskom implemented so-called “Stage 6” outages, meaning at …

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