ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia’s council of ministers have approved a budget for the upcoming 2022/23 fiscal year of 786.6 billion birr ($15 billion), an increase of 16.6% from the previous year, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said on Friday. Fighting that erupted in the northern region of Tigray in November 2020, and spilled over into …
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By MacDonald Dzirutwe ABUJA (Reuters) – Veteran Nigerian politician and former Lagos state governor Bola Tinubu has said it is his turn to lead Africa’s most populous nation after his backing helped propel President Muhammadu Buhari to power seven years ago. Nigeria will go to the polls to choose a new president next February. Buhari’s …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Russia said on Friday it was not to blame for the global food crisis as African Union leaders met President Vladimir Putin to tell him how it was hitting their continent. Africa is heavily dependent on grain supplies from Russia and Ukraine that have been badly disrupted since Russia invaded its neighbour 100 …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington on Thursday accused Tunisia’s President Kais Saied of undermining the country’s democratic institutions after he fired dozens of judges amid a raft of measures that appeared designed to consolidate one-man rule. Saied, who has also replaced the independent electoral commission and said he will introduce a new constitution this month, accused …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Two Red Cross workers were killed on Wednesday when their car was attacked by unidentified armed men in western Mali, the global humanitarian organisation said on Thursday. Armed men on motorcycles opened fire on the vehicle in the region of Kayes, the Malian Red Cross said in a statement. The driver, who …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The Tunisian Judges Association on Thursday called the president’s decision to sack dozens of judges as a “massacre” and called on members to oppose it. President Kais Saied on Wednesday dismissed 57 judges, accusing them of corruption and protecting terrorists in a purge of the judiciary – his latest step to tighten …
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CONAKRY (Reuters) -One person was killed in Guinea’s capital late on Wednesday during protests over fuel price hikes, in the most serious unrest since a military junta took power last year. Gunfire rang out in Conakry overnight as people barricaded streets and set tyres alight in protest over a 20% increase in the price of …
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By Sisipho Skweyiya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – As South African artist Fhatuwani Mukheli paints a portrait of a woman at his Johannesburg studio, he is creating not only the work before him but also a digital asset destined to adorn a virtual world. Mukheli uses The Tree, an online marketplace for South African artists to promote …
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By Bhargav Acharya and Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Deaths on the African continent from COVID-19 are expected to fall by nearly 94 percent in 2022 compared to last year, modelling by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed on Thursday. 2021 was the pandemic’s most deadly year in Africa, with COVID-19 the seventh major cause of …
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(Reuters) – Morocco reported on Thursday its first case of monkeypox, in a traveler coming from Europe, state TV said on Twitter, citing the health ministry. The patient is in a stable condition, it said. (Reporting by Maher Chmaytelli; editing by John Stonestreet)
