By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian vice president Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday he wanted to run for president next February on the ruling All Progressives Party ticket but faces a challenge from another party stalwart who said he also wanted to join the race. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will step down after serving two …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Russia’s Nordgold is shutting down its Taparko mine in Burkina Faso and calling force majeure citing the deteriorating security situation in the West African country, according to a company statement seen on Monday. Burkina Faso, like its neighbours Mali and Niger, is battling armed militants linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed and dozens abducted by gunmen in Nigeria’s Plateau state, residents and a community leader said on Monday, the latest in a spate of attacks by armed gangs in northern parts of Africa’s most populous nation. Such attacks are not common in Plateau, in central Nigeria. …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African court on Monday granted a further delay in former president Jacob Zuma’s arms deal corruption trial, pending the outcome of his latest attempt to have the lead prosecutor taken off the long-running case. Zuma, ousted as head of state in 2018 after nine years in power, has pleaded not …
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By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday sued an alleged puppy scammer who used its services to sell fake pets, the first of what the company said would be a growing number of lawsuits targeting apparent misuse by its users. Elder advocacy group AARP tipped Google to the scam last …
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By Cooper Inveen and Francis Kokoroko ODUMASE-KROBO, GHANA (Reuters) – Michael Tetteh, Ghana’s only professional glassblower, clenched his teeth as he gripped a red-hot ball of molten glass, his burned and blistered hands bare against the steaming stack of wet newspaper he used to protect them. The 44-year-old toiled in the heat of scrap-metal kilns …
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By Cooper Inveen and Francis Kokoroko ODUMASE-KROBO, GHANA (Reuters) – Michael Tetteh, Ghana’s only professional glassblower, clenched his teeth as he gripped a red-hot ball of molten glass, his burned and blistered hands bare against the steaming stack of wet newspaper he used to protect them. The 44-year-old toiled in the heat of scrap-metal kilns …
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MADRID (Reuters) – The Polisario Front, Western Sahara’s independence movement, on Sunday said it was severing ties with Spain after Madrid backed Morocco’s plan giving autonomy to the former Spanish colony. Spain has supported the autonomy plan as a way to resolve a long-running dispute over Western Sahara, which Morocco considers as its own territory. …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s national electricity grid has collapsed for the second time in a month, the federal ministry of power said on Saturday, leaving the parts of the country it serves, including capital Abuja and Africa’s biggest city Lagos, without power. The power ministry said the outage had occurred overnight. It gave no estimate …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – At least 13 African migrants died when their boats sank off Tunisia, judicial official Mourad Turki told Reuters on Saturday. Another 10 migrants were missing off the coast of Sfax and 19 were rescued, the official added. Among the bodies recovered were four women and four children, Turki said. In recent months, …
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