By Nellie Peyton and Felix Onuah JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The African Union (AU) has suspended Niger from all its activities following last month’s military coup there and told its members to avoid any action that might legitimise the junta. The coup has caused alarm among Western allies and democratic African states who fear it could allow …
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By Carien du Plessis and Tannur Anders JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – African countries want China to shift its focus from building infrastructure on the continent to local industrialisation, China’s top Africa diplomat said on Tuesday at a briefing on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in South Africa. “African integration is already escalating and many African …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African rand gained on Tuesday as risk appetite returned to global markets due to falling U.S. Treasury yields, as the first day of the BRICS summit of emerging economies kicked off in Johannesburg. At 1605 GMT, the rand traded at 18.7900 against the dollar, about 0.9% stronger than its previous close. …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia will work with Saudi Arabian authorities to investigate allegations made by a human rights group that hundreds of Ethiopian migrants have been killed by the kingdom’s border guards, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Saudi Arabian officials did not respond to a request for comment about the investigation. A Saudi …
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By Michael Holden and Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) -British police said on Tuesday they had charged former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke with bribery offences, saying they suspected she had accepted bribes in return for awarding multi-million pound oil and gas contracts. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and top oil producer, has one of the …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudanese military factions battled for a third day over an army base in the capital, eyewitnesses said on Tuesday, as both sides struggle for advantage in a more than four-month war that has devastated the country. After the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) circulated video of its soldiers claiming to have entered …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia plans to organise a referendum to determine the status of territory disputed by the country’s Tigray and Amhara regions, the defence minister said on Tuesday. The government also vowed to dissolve what it called an “illegal administration” in the area run by the Amharas, potentially risking a further backlash from …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – Deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be struck at next month’s Africa Climate Summit, including increasingly popular nature-based investments, the event’s main organiser said on Tuesday. African officials hope the meeting will strengthen the continent’s voice and send a unified message ahead of the COP28 …
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By Promit Mukherjee JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Treasury has paid 16 billion rand ($852 million) to heavily indebted power utility Eskom, the first tranche of a debt relief package that will wipe off more than half its liabilities, acting CEO Calib Cassim said on Tuesday. The Treasury offered a total of 254 billion rand …
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s former military president, Abdulsalami Abubakar, who led a mission from West African regional bloc ECOWAS to Niger to negotiate with its coup leaders over the weekend, said on Tuesday that the visit was “very fruitful” and that he had hope the crisis could be solved through diplomacy. (Reporting by Felix Onuah; …
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