JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s state power utility said on Saturday it planned to suspend rotational power cuts at 1000 GMT after it managed to return more generation units to service. Eskom added that its emergency reserves have been adequately replenished and were available to support the strained power system next week. The utility regularly …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – The third Ebola patient in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo has died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, the latest fatality in an outbreak first reported last month. The 48-year-old man was the most recent confirmed case in Congo’s 14th outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever, which has hit the city …
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(Reuters) – A Liberian man who U.S. authorities say served as general in a rebel group that sought to overthrow the West African nation’s president two decades ago was arrested and charged with immigration fraud, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Laye Sekou Camara, 43, of Mays Landing, New Jersey, is accused of falsely denying …
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By Abraham Achirga ABUJA (Reuters) – As a disabled child growing up in Nigeria, Joshua Anum did not see internet stardom in his future. He and his eight siblings, abandoned by their father, barely had enough to eat. Now the 15-year-old, who lost his left arm at age five after falling out of a tree, …
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BONOUA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Men beating drums and blowing ox horns sounded the arrival of the king of Ivory Coast’s Aboure people, who waved as hundreds of onlookers lined the roadside and sat on the roofs of buildings to catch a glimpse. Wearing a gold crown and a long patterned robe, the king was …
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali lawmakers are expected to pick the country’s new president on May 15, a parliamentary committee said on Thursday, the final step in a tortuous election process that has suffered delays due to a rift within the outgoing administration. The selection of a president is a key step in …
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(Reuters) – One Sudanese protester was killed on Thursday as security forces confronted anti-coup demonstrations in Khartoum, said medics aligned with the movement to end military rule. The protester, who hasn’t been identified, was run over by a vehicle belonging to the security forces, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said on Twitter. The death …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has recovered more than $23 million stolen from Nigeria by the country’s late military dictator Sani Abacha, it said on Thursday, the latest in a series of similar recoveries around the world. Abacha ruled Africa’s most populous nation and top oil exporter from 1993 until his death …
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By Promit Mukherjee JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Aspen Pharmacare will switch about half of its COVID-19 vaccine production capacity onto other products if demand doesn’t pick up within six weeks, its CEO warned, as South Africa’s president and health officials urged more Africans to take up the shots. Aspen completed a deal in March to package, …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africa’s top public health body urged all those purchasing COVID-19 vaccines for the continent to place orders with South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare, saying the market was key to developing vaccine manufacturing on the continent. The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it was doing everything it could behind the …
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