TUNIS (Reuters) – At least 10 people died and more than 30 are still missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Tunisia, officials said on Wednesday. Tunisian cost guard rescued 76 migrants from the same shipwreck, the national guard official Houssem Eddin Jebabli said. Faouzi Masmoudi, a judge from the city …
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BLANTYRE (Reuters) – The death toll from Cyclone Freddy has risen sharply to more than 1,000 people, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera said on Wednesday, as the southern African nation continues to recover from one of the deadliest storms to hit the continent in the last two decades. Cyclone Freddy left a trail of destruction in …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia is suffering from the impact of a climate crisis it has done almost nothing to create, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as a full-blown famine threatens to follow a drought that killed 43,000 people last year. Some 8.3 million Somalis, almost half the population, require urgent humanitarian assistance, …
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By Djaffar Al Katanty KIHISI, Democratic Republic Of Congo (Reuters) – Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people’s camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again. Buregeya fled …
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By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China is expected to drop its demand for multilateral development banks to share losses alongside other creditors in sovereign debt restructurings for poor nations, removing a major roadblock to debt relief, a source familiar with the plans said. The development is expected at a high-level sovereign debt …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Indonesian Nuni Nuraini Ahyani is in her fourth year studying religion at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, the 1,000-year-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning. During the holy month of Ramadan, which runs until later this month, she likes to try out different communal tables where locals and passersby can break their fasts at sunset …
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By Kopano Gumbi PRETORIA (Reuters) – South Africa should not shy away from spending to fix the country’s power crisis, its electricity minister told Reuters, ahead of a cabinet decision later this month on his proposals to end the worst power blackouts on record. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, appointed last month to the newly created role, was …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – The Kenyan shilling was broadly stable against the dollar in a quiet market on Wednesday, traders said. At 0740 GMT, commercial banks quoted the shilling at 133.60/80, largely unchanged from Tuesday’s close. The shilling has lost 7.8% of its value against the dollar this year, according to Refinitiv data. President William Ruto …
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s rand firmed in early trade on Wednesday, as the dollar weakened ahead of U.S. inflation data. At 0653 GMT, the rand traded at 18.3675 against the dollar, 0.11% stronger than its previous close. The dollar was down around 0.04% against a basket of global currencies. The U.S. consumer price index …
SINGAPORE/ABIDJAN (Reuters) -A Singapore-registered oil tanker was boarded by “unidentified persons” about 300 nautical miles (555 km) off Ivory Coast in the Gulf of Guinea, the city-state’s port authority said. The Gulf of Guinea has become a hotspot for global piracy in recent years, although incidents have dwindled since 2021 as national authorities stepped up …
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