ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday swore in an acting Chief Justice to replace Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad who resigned suddenly on health grounds. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, 64, succeeds Muhammad as the most senior judge on the bench. Buhari said Muhammad was due to retire next year but ill heath had forced him to …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union called on Monday for a new nationwide strike in the public sector including state firms to protest against the government’s economic policies, escalating a dispute with the government of President Kais Saied. The latest confrontation between the union and Saied comes as Tunisia prepares to start …
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Opioid and cannabis abuse are above global averages in West and Central Africa, while cocaine trafficking through the region is financing militant violence in the Sahel, the United Nations said in a report on Monday. Growing instability in West Africa, a transit route for illegal drugs on their way from South America …
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By Belén Carreño, Borja Suárez and Joan Faus MADRID/LAS PALMAS (Reuters) – Spain is shifting its foreign policy towards Africa while lobbying the EU and NATO for support to address migration from the continent, aggravated by the Ukraine invasion, two senior government officials and two diplomatic sources told Reuters. Spain will use a NATO summit …
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YAOUNDE (Reuters) – At least 26 villagers were killed in an attack on Saturday in the Akwaya district of Cameroon’s South-West region, where separatist insurgencies have added fuel to long-running inter-ethnic conflicts over land, local sources said on Monday. The district medical officer, Enow Daniel Kewong, said 26 bodies had been found so far and …
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YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – A well at a site operated by local Nigerian firm Eroton Exploration and Production Limited has been spilling oil and gas into the Niger Delta for more than a week, the company and an agency responsible for detecting oil spills said. Eroton produces and exports crude from its Oil Mining Lease …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s Eskom will continue with “Stage 4” power cuts until Wednesday as unlawful labour action at various plants impact maintenance work, the state-owned power utility said on Sunday. Suffering some of its worst electricity generation problems in a decade of forced power cuts, known locally as load shedding, Eskom’s struggles …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Zamfara state will start issuing licences to individuals to carry guns to defend themselves against armed gangs of kidnappers causing havoc in the country’s northwest, the state’s commissioner for information said on Sunday. Armed gangs are rife across Nigeria’s northwest where they rob or kidnap for ransom, and violence has …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South African authorities are investigating the deaths of at least 22 young people found inside a popular tavern in the coastal town of East London, provincial health officials and the presidency said on Sunday. State broadcaster SABC reported the deaths resulted from a possible stampede, but was scant on details as the …
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By Angus McDowall and Ahmed Elumami SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – The people living in the ruins of Sirte’s 600 Block district have waited years for help removing rubble and rebuilding homes damaged by warfare, but despite a new Libyan government making the city its headquarters, they have little hope of change. They live in apartments …
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