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Congo’s Katumbi says election should be annulled as opposition plans protest

By Yassin Kombi and Sonia Rolley BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Moise Katumbi, one of the main opposition candidates in Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential election has added his voice to calls for the Dec. 20 vote to be annulled because of “massive fraud,” a statement from his campaign said on Saturday. Katumbi’s campaign …

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Gunmen kill at least 20 people in western Burundi -govt

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 20 people and wounded nine others near Burundi’s western border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government told reporters on Saturday, in an attack claimed by the Red Tabara rebel group. Those killed in the Friday evening raid on a village called Vugizo included 12 children, two …

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Guinea fuel supplies improving since oil storage blast

CONAKRY (Reuters) – Supplies of fuel to gas stations in Guinea is expected to improve significantly following an oil terminal blast, the government said, as it introduced new top-up limits for vehicles from Saturday. The Dec. 18 blast killed 23 people and damaged most of the fuel tanks at the West African nation’s main oil …

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Congo reaffirms commitment to OPEC, oil minister says

(Reuters) – Congo on Saturday reaffirmed its commitment to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), days after neighbor Angola decided to leave the organization. “The Republic of Congo reaffirms its steadfast commitment to the strategic policy defined by the Secretary-General of OPEC and OPEC+,” Congo’s hydrocarbons minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua said in a …

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Nigerian central bank lifts ban on crypto trading

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s central bank has lifted a ban on transacting in cryptocurrencies, while saying global trends had shown a need to regulate such activities, the bank said in its latest circular. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Feb. 2021 barred banks and financial institutions from dealing in or facilitating transactions in crypto …

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India firm denies tampering with tests in probe of cough syrup deaths

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Maiden Pharmaceuticals, whose cough syrups have been linked to the deaths of children in Gambia, on Saturday denied it had tampered with test samples or bribed officials to do so, as alleged in a complaint under investigation by local health officials. An investigator with the state …

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Uganda extends oil exploration licence for Nigeria’s Oranto by two years

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s oil ministry said it has granted Nigerian firm Oranto Petroleum Limited a two-year renewal of an oil exploration licence for two blocks located in the west of the country. The licence extension, which covers the Ngassa Deep and Ngassa Shallow exploration areas, will allow the firm to conduct both exploration and …

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Ex-Credit Suisse CEO elected to lead Ivory Coast’s PDCI opposition party

By Ange Aboa YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam was elected on Friday as leader of the PDCI, one of Ivory Coast’s main opposition parties, making him a likely candidate in the 2025 presidential election. Thiam received votes from over 90% of the 7,000 assembled members of the PDCI, the …

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Stocks edge up, dollar eases before long holiday weekend

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) -Global stock indexes mostly rose while the U.S. dollar dipped to a near five-month low on Friday ahead of the long holiday weekend, with cooler-than-expected U.S. inflation data supporting the view that the Federal Reserve could cut borrowing costs in the new year. The Commerce Department report showed U.S. …

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Congo releases first provisional election results after messy vote

By Ange Kasongo and Yassin Kombi KINSHASA/BENI (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday released a few early results from general elections after an unscheduled day-long ballot extension that has prompted some opposition candidates to cry foul and call for a rerun. The provisional results from the few thousand voters in the Congolese diaspora showed …

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