By Seun Sanni AFI MOUNTAIN DRILL RANCH, Nigeria (Reuters) – Sugar Ray is about 20 years old, a venerable age for a drill monkey whose life got off to a tragic start: clinging to his mother’s chest as a baby, he lost her and his left hind leg to a hunter’s machete blow. Maimed and …
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By Nafisa Eltahir and Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Millions more Sudanese are set to go hungry this year as economic turmoil and erratic rains drive up prices and reduce harvests, with a halt to foreign assistance and the war in Ukraine putting food supplies at further risk. The rising levels of hunger forecast …
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KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected bandits have contacted some Nigerian families to say they are holding relatives who went missing following an attack on a passenger train this week and that they will demand a ransom, the families said on Thursday. Authorities in the northern Kaduna state said eight people died and 26 were hospitalised …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – The United States will build a $537 million consulate in the Nigerian megacity Lagos, the country’s commercial capital, as Washington strengthens economic and diplomatic relations with Africa’s most populous country. The U.S. is among the largest foreign investors and donors in Nigeria with annual trade between the two countries at over $10 …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has found that South Sudan’s leadership is failing to implement parts of a peace deal signed in 2018 and warned it will continue to impose costs on those perpetuating the conflict, according to a report seen by Reuters. The U.S. State Department – in a report …
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By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s main opposition party, the Islamist Ennahda, rejects President Kais Saied’s move to dissolve parliament and it will boycott any referendum he calls to restructure the political system unilaterally, its leader said. Rached Ghannouchi, who is also parliament speaker, said in an interview that Ennahda would …
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -Tanzania’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, on Friday met with the main opposition party’s leader, Freeman Mbowe, the presidency said, hours after prosecutors dropped terrorism charges against Mbowe and set him free. Mbowe, chairman of Chadema party, was detained last July in the lakeside town of Mwanza where he was due to …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s new parliament-backed government said on Friday that an armed group linked to rival authorities had released two of its ministers held against their will, but tensions remained high between political factions. The office of Fathi Bashagha, the parliament’s choice for prime minister, had said the two ministers were held on Thursday …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – About 100,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are at risk of being destroyed by the end of this month due to slow uptake by citizens, South African health authorities said on Friday. South Africa has recorded the most coronavirus infections and deaths on the African continent, however inoculations have slowed and the …
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MAPUTO (Reuters) – Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday appointed Adriano Afonso Maleiane as the new prime minister, shortly after sacking Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, and filled several other posts including finance minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle. A Portuguese-language presidency statement named Ernesto Max Tonela as the Minister of Economy and Finance, and …
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