NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan judge on Thursday found Facebook’s parent company Meta was not in contempt of court for failing to pay dozens of content moderators that a contractor laid off. Labour judge Mathews Nduma Nderi said Meta did not “deliberately and contemptuously” breach a court order requiring it to pay wages of hundreds …
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By Farah Saafan, Amina Ismail and Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set to secure six more years as Egypt’s president in an election held in the shadow of the nearby war in the Gaza Strip, despite growing unease about the country’s economic performance. Over nearly a decade in power, …
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(Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s executive board will meet on Dec. 13 to discuss debt relief for Somalia, the Fund´s spokesperson Julie Kozack told a press conference on Thursday. This would be an “upcoming milestone” for the country, Kozack said, adding that the consideration would be under the heavily indebted poor countries initiative, known …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa is expected to appoint Dan Marokane as Chief Executive of struggling state power utility Eskom, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources. Spokespeople for Eskom and the Department of Public Enterprises, the government department that oversees the power company, declined to comment on the Bloomberg report. Eskom has been …
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FREETOWN (Reuters) -Sierra Leone police have summoned former president Ernest Bai Koroma for questioning as part of their investigation into a failed coup attempt on Nov. 26, information minister Chernor Bah said in a statement on Thursday. Koroma is invited to report to the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown within 24 hours, …
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By Andrew MacAskill, Kate Holton and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appealed to his Conservative lawmakers on Thursday to unite behind his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda after a revolt that once again exposed deep divisions in his party. Sunak is facing the biggest challenge to his year-long tenure …
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By Loucoumane Coulibaly and Alessandra Prentice KORHOGO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Without pausing to wipe the sweat from their brows, workers in northern Ivory Coast picked cotton by the handful – a crop saved by the use of extra insecticides after a new pest wreaked record damage across West and Central Africa last season. The …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – A trial of an experimental HIV vaccine in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa has been stopped early after preliminary data suggested it would not be effective in preventing infection, according to the trial’s chief investigator. Â Â Â Â The news is the latest blow to efforts to find an effective vaccine against a virus that …
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By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – IHS Holding has offered improved commercial terms to MTN Nigeria for the lease of 2,500 towers it lost to American Tower Corporation (ATC), saying the move would prevent network disruption in Africa’s most populous country. MTN Nigeria, owned by South Africa’s MTN Group announced in September that the leasing …
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(Reuters) – South Africa’s fourth-quarter consumer confidence fell to the lowest in two decades for the festive season, according to a survey released on Thursday, as the country struggles with higher interest rates and a cost-of-living crisis. The consumer confidence index, sponsored by the First National Bank (FNB) and compiled by the Bureau for Economic …
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