LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s ambassador in Sudan is speaking to the warring parties in the country to urge them to extend a 72-hour ceasefire that is due to expire tonight, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday. “The British ambassador continues to speak to the warring parties in Sudan,” the spokesperson told …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – As Sudan fell apart this month in pitched battles between warring military factions, Mohamed Jally’s family in the vast desert region of Darfur was itself torn in two, with a brother fighting on each side. Although the brothers are not presently fighting in the same place, Jally fears the war between the …
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By America Hernandez PARIS (Reuters) – The restart of TotalEnergies’ $20 billion Mozambique liquefied natural gas (LNG) project is being complicated by disagreements with contractors over extra costs, the company said on Thursday. The French energy company holds a leading 26.5% stake in the development, which was halted in 2021 after Islamic State-linked insurgents attacked …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Thursday appointed a new ambassador to Syria, the Tunisian presidency said in a statement, the latest Arab move to end Syria’s regional isolation. Tunisia cut off diplomatic relations with Syria nearly a decade ago to protest Assad’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011 that developed into civil …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – JP Morgan has hired Ishita Kohli to join its Middle East and North Africa debt capital markets team in Dubai, a spokesperson for the bank confirmed on Thursday. The move was earlier reported by fixed-income news service IFR. IFR also reported JPM is relocating DCM banker Arseniy Loboyko from London to Dubai, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain may not be able to continue evacuating its nationals in Sudan when a ceasefire ends – something due to happen later on Thursday – and they should try to reach British flights out of the country immediately, foreign minister James Cleverly said. “Now is the time to move because when the …
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LAGOS (Reuters) -Exxon Mobil Corp resumed operations at its facilities in Nigeria after resolving a labour dispute over pay and conditions with its in-house union, a company spokesperson said on Thursday. The industrial action had forced Exxon to declare force majeure on oil liftings at its terminals in the country. A spokesperson for Exxon said …
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By Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) – As Lebanese businessman Ahmad Shams sheltered in the hotel he ran in Khartoum from the gunfire and shelling that erupted there this month, it brought back flashbacks of the civil war that had shattered Lebanon’s capital in his youth. “It’s the same picture – there are militias, there are …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding with Golar LNG of Norway to build a floating liquefied natural gas plant in the country, the company said late on Wednesday. Africa’s biggest oil producer, Nigeria, holds some of the world’s biggest gas reserves and is seeking investment to boost …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France has evacuated more people from Sudan, the French foreign ministry said on Thursday, adding that those evacuated included not only French nationals but also Britons, Americans, Canadians, Ethiopians, Dutch, Italians and Swedes. The French government added it had so far evacuated a total of 936 people from Sudan. (Reporting by Sudip …
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