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Meta, Chime file lawsuit against alleged phishing scam on Facebook, Instagram

9 Feb 2022

By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) – Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had filed a joint lawsuit with digital banking company Chime against two Nigeria-based individuals who engaged in phishing attacks to deceive people and gain access to their online financial accounts. The lawsuit, which is the first joint complaint between Meta and a …

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Chinese funding of sub-Saharan African infrastructure dwarfs that of West, says think tank

9 Feb 2022

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s development banks provided $23 billion in financing for infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa from 2007 to 2020, more than double the amount lent by such banks in the United States, Germany, Japan and France combined, a new study showed. The Center for Global Development think tank said a …

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Western donors decry Tunisia’s abolition of judicial council

8 Feb 2022

TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s main Western donors voiced “deep concern” on Tuesday at the president’s move to dissolve a body tasked with ensuring judicial independence after he seized wide powers last year in a move critics call a coup, as the foreign minister sought to allay fears. President Kais Saied announced his declaration to abolish the …

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Fighting in Ethiopia’s Afar region displaces 300,000, aid blocked to Tigray

8 Feb 2022

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -The government of Ethiopia’s Afar region says more than 300,000 people have been displaced by warfare there since December and it accused Tigrayan forces of killing civilians and looting. The United Nations has said that the fighting in Afar was blocking the delivery of food to neighbouring Tigray region, where several hundred …

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Tunisian enthusiast recreates sea snail purple dye that defined ancient royals

8 Feb 2022

By Jihed Abidellaoui TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian history enthusiast is making dye from sea snail shells inspired by a school project decades ago on ancient Carthage and the purple colouring that brought fabulous wealth to the classical world. Mouhamad Ghassen Nouira works from a hut in his garden to process murex snails using techniques …

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As relations fray, Mali accuses France of splitting country, spying

8 Feb 2022

By Paul Lorgerie BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali has accused France’s military of deliberately dividing the West African country and of committing espionage during its fight against Islamist militants, in the latest verbal volley that has seen relations spiral in recent weeks. Choguel Maiga, appointed interim Prime Minister following a coup last year, did not provide …

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Millions facing severe hunger in Horn of Africa – U.N. food agency

8 Feb 2022

GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday that 13 million people across the Horn of Africa face severe hunger, calling for immediate assistance to avoid a repeat of a famine a decade ago that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Three failed rainy seasons have created the driest conditions since the …

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