TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian military judge ordered on Wednesday the imprisonment of Abd Errazak Kilani, a lawyer and prominent opponent of President Kais Saied, who seized almost all powers in July, for inciting police to break the law, a lawyer told Reuters. The imprisonment will reinforce opposition fears that Saied is seeking revenge on his …
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MAPUTO (Reuters) – Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday fired six ministers, including the country’s finance minister, an official statement from the President’s office said, in what was seen as a major cabinet reshuffle. In a short statement, issued in the Portuguese language, the President’s office named the ministers who had been sacked, saying, “the …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Investment firm Appian Capital Advisory has served Sibanye-Stillwater with a notice of claim seeking compensation for the South African miner’s termination of a planned acquisition of two mines in Brazil. London-based Appian, advising two affiliated private equity funds which own the Brazilian mines, said the transaction was worth over $1.2 billion and called …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The U.N. refugee agency has urged authorities in countries neighbouring Ukraine to open their borders to African citizens fleeing the conflict there amid reports that some were being denied access to safety, UNHCR said on Wednesday. Thousands of African and other foreign nationals, particularly students, have been scrambling to leave Ukraine since …
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MADRID (Reuters) – More than 2,500 migrants attempted to climb a high border fence separating Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco on Wednesday, and around 500 managed to cross into Spanish territory, local authorities said. The central government in Melilla said in a statement the migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa were armed with hooks, …
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By Seun Sanni IBADAN, Nigeria (Reuters) – Inside Nigeria’s ‘Waste Museum’ in Ibadan city, Jumoke Olowookere works on her latest creations made out of used tyres to add an addition to a wide collection produced from used plastic and fabric, wine corks and corn husks, among other material. Olowookere, who says her museum is the …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The United States has sanctioned four South Africans it says have led Islamic State cells in the country or facilitated support for branches elsewhere, including by transferring funds or procuring weapons. In a statement, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said it had designated Farhad Hoomer, Siraaj …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s parliament approved a new government on Tuesday but the incumbent prime minister rejected the vote and vowed not to cede power, raising the risk of fighting among armed factions or territorial partition between rival administrations. The parliament speaker’s declaration of Fathi Bashagha as prime minister after a televised vote aggravates a …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Senate on Tuesday voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, while a provision to allocate special seats for women to increase their political representation failed to pass. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation will go to the polls to elect a …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African corruption inquiry said on Tuesday it had referred former president Jacob Zuma and current mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe for investigation by law enforcement with a view to establishing potential graft charges. The inquiry was established in 2018 to examine allegations of high-level graft during Zuma’s nine years in …
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