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By Alexander Winning and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa forecast public debt will peak sooner and at a lower level than earlier thought as it unveiled its annual budget on Wednesday, with mining tax receipts expected to keep supporting revenues and spending seen growing modestly. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government is trying to stabilise the …

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By Julia Payne LONDON (Reuters) -A London high court began to hear a lawsuit on Wednesday launched by Nigeria against U.S. bank JP Morgan Chase, claiming more than $1.7 billion for its role in a disputed 2011 oilfield deal. The civil suit filed in the English courts relates to the purchase by energy majors Shell …

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By Manojna Maddipatla (Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it has set up a hub in South Korea to train low- and middle-income countries to produce their own vaccines and therapies, and is expanding its COVID-19 vaccine project to a further five nations. The new training hub comes after the U.N. agency set …

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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian lawmakers plan to amend the constitution to compel a new president to nominate the cabinet within a month of taking office, documents showed on Wednesday, to avoid policy delays as the country prepares for elections next year. President Muhammadu Buhari took five months after he was re-elected to a second term …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – The deputy head of Sudan’s ruling council, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, headed to Moscow on Wednesday saying he hoped to bolster ties with Russia in the latest in a series of foreign visits. Dagalo, who is widely known as Hemedti and commands Sudan’s powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, was part of an …

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By Francis Kokoroko and Cooper Inveen ACCRA (Reuters) – With a flick of his brush, Ghanaian painter Daniel Anum Jasper armed actor Paul Newman with a pair of revolvers. Unfinished paintings of a bell-bottomed John Travolta and nunchuck-spinning Bruce Lee adorned the walls of his crammed Accra studio. Jasper, a veteran movie poster designer, was …

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By Francesco Guarascio and Jennifer Rigby BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) -The global project to share COVID-19 vaccines is struggling to place more than 300 million doses in the latest sign the problem with vaccinating the world is now more about demand than supply. Last year, wealthy nations snapped most of the available shots to inoculate their own …

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