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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Global consumers purchasing teak may be fuelling conflict in South Sudan, a research group said on Tuesday, warning that armed groups are benefiting from an unregulated logging trade worth tens of millions of dollars. Washington-based research group … Continue reading Unregulated teak trade fuelling South Sudanese violence -report
Demonstrators chat slogans during a protest demanding that the upcoming presidential election be cancelled in Algiers, Algeria December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina ALGIERS (Reuters) – A big crowd of protesters marched through central Algiers on Wednesday to demand that a … Continue reading Algerian protesters demand Thursday’s election be cancelled
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan court granted bail on Wednesday to the Nairobi County governor charged with multi-million dollar corruption in one of the most high profile cases in the government’s anti-graft push. Prison and police officers keep watch over … Continue reading Kenyan court grants bail to Nairobi governor charged with corruption
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks on the second day of hearings in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands … Continue reading Myanmar’s Suu Kyi: Gambia’s genocide case at World Court misleading
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – Madagascar plans to increase its royalties on nickel and cobalt to 4% from 2% at present, a draft mining law said on Tuesday. The law, presented to reporters by Mines Minister Fidiniavo Ravokatra, showed that Madagascar also … Continue reading Madagascar plans higher royalties on nickel, cobalt, at least 20% stake in mining production
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation Address at parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, June 20, 2019. REUTERS/Rodger Bosch/Pool via REUTERS JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa cut short his state visit Egypt … Continue reading South Africa’s Ramaphosa cuts short Egypt trip over power crisis
Mine workers employed at Sibanye Gold’s Masimthembe shaft operate a drill in Westonaria, South Africa, April 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African mining companies Harmony Gold, Impala Platinum, and Sibanye-Stillwater have been forced to cut production … Continue reading South Africa mining companies cut production due to power shortages
LONDON (Reuters) – The son of Angola’s veteran ex-president faced corruption charges before the country’s supreme court in a trial which opened on Monday, state news agency ANGOP said, the most high-profile case yet under the government’s anti-corruption drive. Jose … Continue reading Angolan ex-president’s son on trial in rare corruption case
Sudan’s former president Omar Hassan al-Bashir sits inside a cage at the courthouse where he is facing corruption charges, in Khartoum, Sudan August 31, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s ousted long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was summoned for … Continue reading Sudan’s Bashir questioned over 1989 coup that brought him to power
A Google Project Loon internet balloon is seen at the Google I/O 2016 developers conference in Mountain View, California May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Stephen Lam KAMPALA (Reuters) – Loon, a unit of Google’s owner Alphabet Inc, which uses high-altitude balloons to … Continue reading Alphabet’s Loon agrees airspace deal with Uganda for internet balloon service
Ethiopians stand next to a billboard congratulating Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri OSLO (Reuters) – The world’s leading military powers and militant groups are both … Continue reading Nobel peace laureate Abiy to say militants, global powers threaten Horn of Africa
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria holds a presidential election on Thursday which protesters say offers no real choice and will keep in power the ruling hierarchy they have been trying to oust in 10 months of demonstrations. Demonstrators take part in … Continue reading Algeria set for presidential election denounced by protesters as charade
