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U.S. warns companies of ‘reputational risks’ of doing business in Sudan

24 May 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States issued an advisory on Monday warning U.S. companies of growing reputational risks of doing business with state-owned enterprises and military-controlled firms in Sudan. “These risks arise from, among other things, recent actions undertaken by Sudan’s Sovereign Council and security forces under the military’s command, including and especially serious human …

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At least 11 civilians killed in Burkina Faso village attacks, says governor

24 May 2022

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – At least 11 civilians were killed in attacks on two villages in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, a regional governor said in a statement. Unidentified armed assailants targeted the two communities in Seno province, which is among those hit by rising insecurity as jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic …

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Militants kill at least 50 in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno

24 May 2022

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria’s Borno state, in the country’s northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters by phone on Monday. Since 2009, Nigeria’s northeast and Borno state in particular have been the centre of an …

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AfricInvest secures $411 million in final close of its latest fund

23 May 2022

(Corrects first paragraph to say latest fund, not third fund) NAIROBI (Reuters) -Pan-African investment firm AfricInvest on Monday said it had attained the final close of its latest fund, securing $411 million in commitments to invest in mid-sized companies on the continent. The new fund, AfricInvest Fund IV, is the largest to be closed by …

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Ethiopia arrests 4,000 in Amhara region crackdown – local state media

23 May 2022

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopian authorities have arrested more than 4,000 people in the northern Amhara region, local state media said on Monday, as part of a wider crackdown against militia fighters, critics and the press. Gizachew Muluneh, spokesperson for the Amhara regional administration and federal government spokesperson Legesse Tulu did not immediately respond to requests …

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Senegal president says he will visit Moscow and Kyiv in coming weeks

23 May 2022

DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese President Macky Sall said he would visit Moscow and Kyiv in the coming weeks in his capacity as chairman of the African Union, which he said wanted to see de-escalation in Ukraine and peace through dialogue between the two sides. Speaking at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, …

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Hundreds evacuated amid renewed flooding in South Africa’s coastal province

23 May 2022

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Hundreds of people have been evacuated to safety after heavy rains once again hammered South Africa’s coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, flooding roads and houses and damaging properties, a government official said on Sunday. The province is still restoring damaged infrastructure and making plans to re-home people displaced after flooding last month, which …

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Severed head of missing Nigerian lawmaker found in park -police

23 May 2022

ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria have discovered the severed head of a state legislator who went missing last week in the southeastern state of Anambra, where the government accuses separatists of carrying out a spate of killings and kidnappings, police said on Sunday. The southeast, homeland of the Igbo ethnic group, is agitating …

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Ethiopia’s Amhara region authorities arrest four staff members of media group

22 May 2022

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region have arrested four employees of a U.S.-based online media outlet, while the whereabouts of two others was unclear, the broadcaster said on Sunday, in the latest round of arrests involving media. The arrests would add to those of five journalists in another Amhara media outlet on …

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Tunisia’s Ennahda rejects formation of advisory committee to draft new constitution

22 May 2022

(Reuters) – Tunisia’s main opposition party, the Islamist Ennahda, rejected on Sunday President Kais Saied’s decision to name members of an advisory committee to draft a new constitution for a “new republic”, it said in a statement. It added that this measure was “a complete deviation from constitutional legitimacy”. On Friday, Saied named a law …

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