By Nyasha Nyaungwa WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Japan on Tuesday signed an agreement with Namibia to jointly explore for rare earth minerals as part of its broader plan to develop supply chains for cobalt and other minerals used in making electric vehicle batteries. The Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) will collaborate with Namibia’s …
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By Alessandra Prentice DAKAR (Reuters) – Niger’s military coup is hampering United Nations’ humanitarian efforts in one of the world’s poorest countries as border and airspace closures have cut off supplies of medicine and food, a U.N. official said on Tuesday. U.N. aid agencies are scrambling to eke out depleting stocks just as regional sanctions …
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By Bate Felix and Anait Miridzhanian DAKAR (Reuters) – Niger’s regional and Western allies have announced a series of sanctions against the country following the July 26 coup. Niger is the world’s seventh-biggest producer of uranium, the radioactive metal widely used for nuclear energy and treating cancer. It is also one of the world’s poorest …
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By Ahmed Elumami ALASAA, Libya (Reuters) – Exhausted, pregnant and weeping, Sudanese nurse Tafaul Omar sat under the scorching desert sun along with 14 other migrants who said they had been arrested by Tunisian authorities and dumped in the border area with Libya – a practice Tunisia denies. The group of men and women from …
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By Promit Mukherjee JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s Nedbank Group, amongst the top five lenders in the country, warned on Tuesday that its bad loans would stay elevated for the rest of the year and it could miss its 2025 financial targets. But its shares were up 2.5% in early trading as profit for the six …
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(This Aug. 7 story has been corrected to remove incorrect paragraph on Piedmont’s supply to Tesla relying partly on Atlantic’s Ghana operations, and to change 2011 to 2021 in paragraph 3) (Reuters) – Atlantic Lithium said on Monday the Africa-focused company was confident of getting a lease for a lithium mine in Ghana following the …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Mali’s troops and its foreign security partners, believed to be Russia’s Wagner mercenaries, are using violence against women and other “grave human rights abuses” to spread terror, U.N. sanctions monitors said in a report seen by Reuters on Monday. The monitors also warned in their report to the …
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By Abdel-Kader Mazou and Boureima Balima NIAMEY (Reuters) -West African leaders scheduled a summit for Thursday to discuss the Niger junta’s rejection of an ultimatum to reinstate the ousted president, as the United States sent a top official to Niamey to push for a return to democracy. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) …
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By Daphne Psaledakis, Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. State Department’s acting No. 2 traveled to Niger and held talks on Monday with senior officials from the country’s junta which seized power last month, but made no progress in meetings she described as “difficult”. U.S. Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland …
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By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil prices settled down 1% on Monday, after six straight weekly gains, as investors braced for weaker demand from China and the United States, the world’s two biggest economies. Brent crude settled 90 cents, or 1.04% lower, at $85.34 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude settled down 88 cents, …
