By Alexander Winning and Anait Miridzhanian JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa has repealed COVID-19 rules that made masks mandatory in indoor public spaces, limited the size of gatherings and imposed entry requirements at its borders, the health minister said on Thursday. South Africa has recorded the most coronavirus cases and deaths on the African continent, with …
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By Hamza Ibrahim KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) -A Nigerian court on Thursday reserved judgment on a challenge against sharia law in the mostly Muslim northern state of Kano in a case that will test the authority of Islamic religious law in Africa’s most populous country. Nigeria’s constitution is neutral on religion. The country is divided between …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Health Minister Joe Phaahla said on Thursday that he had been notified by the country’s laboratory services that they had confirmed the first monkeypox case in South Africa. The patient was a 30-year-old male from Johannesburg who had no travel history, “meaning that this cannot be attributed to having been …
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(Reuters) – Protesters blocked roads leading to some power plants operated by South Africa’s state-owned utility Eskom on Thursday, the company’s spokesperson said, after wage talks with unions broke down. Sikonathi Mantshantsha said groups of people, some wearing union outfits, were protesting outside the Duvha, Hendrina, Matla, Arnot, Medupi and Matimba coal plants. “Some of …
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By Ayenat Mersie and Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) – Commonwealth leaders gather in Rwanda this week to discuss issues ranging from trade to health to climate change, a summit that will test the organisation’s mettle at a time when its relevance is being questioned. The Commonwealth, a club of 54 countries that evolved from the …
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s ruling party said on Wednesday it “insists” on reforming the East African country’s constitution after fending off years of sustained pressure by opposition parties and rights groups to do just that. A previous attempt to make changes to the constitution failed in 2014. At the time, a draft constitution …
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By Bhargav Acharya and Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told an inquiry into corruption under his predecessor Jacob Zuma that he had no first-hand knowledge of any wrongdoing, only media reports, the final part of the inquiry published on Wednesday showed. But the report also said that, as deputy president …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese honked car horns and banged on pots and pans in the capital Dakar on Wednesday evening in the latest protest organised by the political opposition ahead of legislative elections next month. Senegal’s main opposition coalition, Yewwi Askan Wi, asked its supporters to come to their windows, balconies and doorways and clang …
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(Corrects location of Sirte in third paragraph) LONDON (Reuters) -Libya’s parliament-appointed Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha said on Wednesday his government supported removing all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya, guided by a committee set up to safeguard a ceasefire after the 2014-2020 conflict. In an interview with Reuters in London, where Bashagha is trying to …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – The World Bank said on Wednesday it had approved a $2.3 billion programme for Eastern and Southern African countries to help them tackle food insecurity. In a statement, the bank said an estimated 66.4 million people in the region were forecast to experience food stress or a food crisis, emergency, or famine …
