(Reuters) – South African state power utility Eskom said it would implement “Stage 4” rotational power cuts between 1100 and midnight local time (0900 and 2200 GMT) on Friday, and between 0500 and midnight local time during the weekend. Eskom said it was compelled to take action to conserve emergency generation reserves due to ongoing …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s president has lifted a ban on a European-backed rights group, his office said, almost 18 months after he suspended the organisation and accused its funders of meddling in politics ahead of elections. Yoweri Museveni said the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) – backed by the European Union, Austria, Denmark, Ireland and other …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – A court in Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday acquitted President Felix Tshisekedi’s former chief of staff of embezzlement, his lawyer said, overturning the most high-profile public corruption conviction in Congolese history. Vital Kamerhe was convicted in 2020 of embezzling $48 million earmarked for social housing and sentenced to 20 years. That …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Qatar’s ruler will visit Egypt on Friday, his first trip to the country since Egypt and Qatar agreed last year to end a long-running regional feud, diplomatic sources said. Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who last visited Egypt in 2015, will hold a formal meeting with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police on Thursday arrested former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, who is also a former senior member in the Ennahda Islamist party, on suspicion of money laundering, his lawyer told Reuters. Police in the city of Sousse seized Jebali’s phone and his wife’s phone and took him to an …
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By Andrew MacAskill KIGALI (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved away from a confrontation with Prince Charles over the government’s immigration deal with Rwanda after his spokesman said the matter would not likely be raised in talks with the heir to the throne. Under an agreement struck between London and Kigali, Britain will …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Two security forces clashed in Tripoli late on Wednesday, killing one fighter and damaging property nearby, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday in a further sign of the tense ties between powerful factions in the Libyan capital. A young man was also killed in a traffic collision as he fled the area …
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By Noah Browning BRUSSELS (Reuters) – African nations rich in energy but otherwise underdeveloped must secure a right to growth and power at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt in November, senior officials from across the continent said this week. Rich nations must not let concerns over emissions causing climate change hinder energy projects, including …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Violence in western Sudan this month alone has displaced more than 84,000 people, doubling the number of those driven from their homes so far this year, according to UN reports. The numbers are the highest since January 2021. Last year, at least 440,500 were displaced, five times more than in 2020, according …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The World Health Organization will decide on Thursday whether to declare monkeypox a global health emergency, stirring criticism from leading African scientists who say it has been a crisis in their region for years. The deliberations and scrutiny of the WHO’s response to the outbreak follows concerns over how the …
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