JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The death toll from days of flooding on South Africa’s east coast rose to 395 on Friday, up from an earlier estimate of 341. This week’s floods in Kwazulu-Natal Province have knocked out power lines, shut down water services, disrupted operations at one of Africa’s busiest ports and strewn highways and beaches …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Operational costs of the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) will increase by $136 million in West Africa this year because of the global rise in food and fuel prices driven by the war in Ukraine, the agency said on Thursday. The additional costs will hamper attempts to relieve a spiralling food …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian court on Thursday detained a journalist who criticised police and the interior minister, the main journalism union said, denouncing a setback in freedom of expression since President Kais Saied seized executive power last summer. Chahrazed Akacha was the second journalist to be imprisoned within a month, after …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria will next year conduct its first census in 17 years to try to accurately survey its population, estimated at more than 200 million people and the largest in Africa, the head of the national population agency said on Thursday. Censuses are controversial in Nigeria because rival ethnic and religious groups have …
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Hundreds of Somali lawmakers were sworn into office on Thursday, paving the way for them to pick the country’s new leader, a process that has been delayed for months amid a power struggle between the current president and the prime minister. Elections had been scheduled for a year ago …
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By Rogan Ward DURBAN (Reuters) -A devastating flood in South Africa’s eastern coastal province earlier this week has left at least 341 people dead, the government said on Thursday, as rescuers continued to hunt for missing people amid forecasts of yet more rains from Friday. “A total number of 40,723 people have been affected and …
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By Edwin Waita MWEA, Kenya (Reuters) – Samuel Rigu is coy about the secret potion he adds to his fertiliser, revealing only that the brown liquid is called “Safi Proprietary Enhancement Formula”. He’s less shy about the results. At his processing plant in Mwea, central Kenya, Rigu has found a way of turning agricultural waste …
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DAKAR (Reuters) -Africa is experiencing its longest-running decline in weekly COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. Recorded weekly cases have fallen for the past 16 weeks and deaths for the last eight, the latter dropping to 239 in the past week, it said in a statement. …
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BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 29 people died when a boat capsized in Nigeria’s Sokoto state in the northwest of the country, residents and the state governor said on Wednesday. The boat was carrying 35 people, mostly women, across a dam in Shagari local government area when it sank. Divers managed to rescue six …
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the risk of ending up in Rwanda rather than the UK will be a “considerable deterrent” over time, as he set out the government’s new partnership with the African country to address illegal immigration. Britain plans to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda to be processed as …
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