By Tife Owolabi and Julia Payne WARRI, Nigeria/LONDON (Reuters) – An oil vessel used for storage that exploded off the coast of Nigeria this week had not been maintained for sometime and had technical issues, two sources and an environmental group said on Friday, as its wreckage lay in the sea after the fire was …
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(Reuters) – The mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine produced at the World Health Organization-backed vaccine hub in South Africa could take up to three years to get approval if companies do not share their technology and data, a WHO official said on Friday. The WHO-backed tech transfer hub in South Africa was set up in June to …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A faction that played a leading role in protests in the uprising that toppled Sudan’s former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 said on Friday it was refusing to meet Volker Perthes, the U.N. Special Representative to Sudan. In a statement on Twitter, the Sudanese Professionals Association faction also accused the United Nations …
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ACCRA (Reuters) – Islamic State has claimed responsibility for freeing about 20 prisoners during an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province this week, according to a statement published on Friday by the SITE Intelligence Group. Witnesses and an army spokesman blamed the attack, which killed at least three people, on the …
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By Paul Lorgerie Bamako (Reuters) – Thousands of anti-French protesters took to the streets of Mali’s capital on Friday waving Russian flags and burning cardboard cut-outs of French President Emmanuel Macron in celebration of the expulsion of France’s envoy in Bamako. Mali expelled https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mali-expels-french-envoy-over-authorities-hostile-remarks-2022-01-31 the French ambassador last week over what the country’s transitional government …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – A presidential decree in the official gazette said on Saturday that Tunisia will issue a national subscription to cover part of state budget needs for the year 2022. There were no details provided on the amount of the subscription. The North Africa country, suffering from its worst financial crisis, is seeking to …
Ouagadougou (Reuters) – The army officer who seized power in Burkina Faso at the helm of a military coup last week has promised that he will work with the region’s main political and economic bloc towards a return to constitutional order. A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met earlier this …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates announced that it will lift a travel ban on its vaccinated citizens to travel to twelve African countries, state news agency WAM said on Friday. The countries include Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo, South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. (Reporting by Lilian …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -A faction that played a leading role in protests in the uprising that toppled Sudan’s former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 said on Friday it was refusing to meet Volker Perthes, the U.N. Special Representative to Sudan. In a statement on Twitter, the Sudanese Professionals Association faction also accused the United Nations Integrated …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Aid workers on Friday set up emergency shelters and readied search and rescue teams in Madagascar as tropical cyclone Batsirai barrelled towards the island, less than two weeks after Storm Ana killed at least 58 people there. The storm, set to be more powerful than Ana https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/death-toll-storm-ana-rises-86-another-storm-brews-africas-east-2022-01-28 with heavy rainfall …
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