NAIROBI (Reuters) – The Kenyan shilling was broadly steady against the dollar on Wednesday as the interbank market helped smooth out an underlying shortage of foreign currency, traders said. At 0836 GMT, commercial banks quoted the shilling at 136.65/85 per dollar, compared with 136.60/80 at Tuesday’s close. The shilling has lost more than 20% against …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – When conflict flared in Khartoum almost a month ago, pitting Sudan’s armed forces and their heavy weaponry against a paramilitary force born out of an agile but lightly-armed desert militia, it looked like it might prove a one-sided fight. But the head of the army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Residents of Sudan’s capital reported heavy air strikes in central Khartoum on Tuesday amid a surge in looting while Saudi Arabia said negotiators were working toward a short-term ceasefire. Witnesses said the army unleashed intense air bombardment in the centre of Khartoum and around the presidential palace. The rival Rapid …
TUNIS (Reuters) -An attack near a synagogue in Tunisia killed two security officers and two visitors on Tuesday the government said amid an annual pilgrimage to the island of Djerba that draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel. The attack was staged by a guard at a naval installation on Djerba who used his …
SHAKAHOLA FOREST, Kenya (Reuters) -Kenyan investigators exhumed 21 more bodies on Tuesday as they resumed a search for followers of a doomsday cult, who the interior minister described as victims of a “highly organised crime”. Paul Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, is in custody accused of ordering followers to starve their children …
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By Diadie Ba and Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on Tuesday rejected a court ruling that could preclude him from running in next year’s election, vowing to pursue his candidacy and calling for a mass protest against President Macky Sall. On Monday, a court extended Sonko’s suspended sentence in a libel …
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By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar inched higher on Tuesday after a loans survey showed U.S. credit conditions were less gloomy than expected, while the pound flirted with a one-year peak on expectations that the Bank of England will raise interest rates this week. In Asia, trade data released on Tuesday showed that …
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By Crispin Kyala and Ange Kasongo BUSHUSHU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Dead bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country’s deadliest disasters in recent history. Many dazed survivors were mourning multiple family …
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By Herbert Lash and Amanda Cooper NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -A gauge of global equity markets rose and the dollar was mostly flat on Monday as expected talks in Washington about the debt ceiling raised concerns, while U.S. inflation data later this week should add clarity on Federal Reserve monetary policy. Treasury yields rose on increased …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – German business software maker SAP and German engineering company Siemens have joined U.S. tech giants in criticising draft EU laws on the use of data generated by smart gadgets and other consumer goods. EU countries and EU lawmakers are working on the details of the Data Act, proposed …
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