TRIPOLI (Reuters) – At least 57 bodies have been washed ashore after two migrant boats sank in the Mediterranean off different towns in western Libya, a coast guard officer and an aid worker said on Tuesday. One survivor, Bassam Mahmoud from Egypt, said there were about 80 passengers on one of the boats that set …
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(Reuters) – An agreement on royalties between Congo’s state miner and China’s CMOC has been reached, paving the way for the resumption of minerals exports from the world’s second largest cobalt mine, Congo’s finance minister said late on Monday. Copper and cobalt exports from Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM) were suspended in July after an escalation …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – There is a “high risk of biological hazard” in the Sudanese capital Khartoum after one of the warring parties seized a laboratory holding measles and cholera pathogens and other hazardous materials, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Geneva via video link from Sudan, the WHO’s Nima Saeed …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Sudan said on Tuesday there was a “high risk of biological hazard” after one of the sides in the Sudan fighting seized a laboratory. Speaking to reporters in Geneva via video link, Nima Saeed Abid said that at least 459 people had been killed in …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Morocco is not planning any changes for now to its currency trading band, Finance Minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui said on Monday. Morocco began gradual currency market reforms in 2018 but has not made any significant changes since 2020 when it increased how much the dirham was allowed to fluctuate from a centrally …
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(Reuters) – South Africa’s Kumba Iron Ore on Tuesday said its output increased 14% to 9.4 million tonnes in the first quarter, lifted by strong production at its Kolomela mine. Kumba, a unit of Anglo American Plc, maintained its production forecast for the full year at between 35 million and 37 million tonnes, with sales …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The executive board of the International Monetary Fund on Monday approved the first review of Tanzania’s three-year extended credit facility, allowing immediate disbursement of about $153 million in budgetary support, the IMF said in a statement. The IMF said Tanzania’s economic reform program is progressing well in a challenging global economic environment, but …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting on Tuesday, while Western, Arab and Asian nations raced to extract their citizens from the country. The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) said the U.S. and Saudi Arabia mediated the truce. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the …
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By Mai Shams El-Din CAIRO (Reuters) – Rawan al-Waleed was expecting to fly from Khartoum to Cairo last week for a wedding. Instead, she ended up travelling from Sudan to Egypt in a bus her family chartered to escape a war. The family left after a rocket hit Waleed’s family home in Khartoum’s Al Amarat …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Canada will introduce new immigration measures to support Sudanese temporary residents who are currently in Canada and may be unable to return home due to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Sudan, the government said on Monday. Fighting erupted between Sudan’s armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group …
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