DAKAR, May 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Violence and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa forced 15,000 people from their homes every day in 2017, double the previous year’s figure, an international monitoring centre said on Wednesday, urging more help for those displaced within their own countries. The region accounted for nearly half the 11.8 million people […]
Read More ABUJA, May 16 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s upper house of parliament passed a record 9.12 trillion naira ($30 billion) budget for 2018 on Wednesday. The total sum laid out in the plan passed by the Senate is higher than the 8.6 trillion naira budget presented to parliament by President Muhammadu Buhari in November. Lawmakers said the […]
Read More LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) – Trading activity was relatively muted on Wednesday with traders waiting for a Angolan allocations for July after the preliminary programme emerged, while an outage affecting Forcados dampened activity in Nigerian crudes. * Nigeria’s Trans-Forcados pipeline was shut down at the end of last week after a leak was found, repairs […]
Read More (Updates death toll, adds WHO quote) GENEVA/KINSHASA, May 16 (Reuters) – The first batch of 4,000 experimental Ebola vaccines to combat an outbreak suspected of killing 23 people arrived in Congo’s capital Kinshasa on Wednesday. The Health Ministry said vaccinations would start at the weekend, the first time the vaccine would come into use since […]
Read More * Nigeria is Africa’s biggest crude oil producer * Budget was first presented by Buhari in Nov. * Spending plan must be signed into law by Buhari * Nigeria to hold presidential election in Feb. 2019 (Adds quotes, lower house passing) By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, May 16 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s parliament passed a record 9.12 […]
Read More ADDIS ABABA, May 16 (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen killed the manager of a plant owned by Nigeria’s Dangote Industries Limited in Ethiopia on Wednesday after he was attacked in the restive Oromiya region while returning to the capital from the factory, officials said. Oromiya, which surrounds the capital Addis Ababa, was plagued by violence for […]
Read More UNITED NATIONS, May 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – T wo-thirds of people in the world will be living in cities by 2050, and the boom will be concentrated in three countries – India, China and Nigeria, according to United Nations estimates released on Wednesday. The world’s rural population will peak in a few years then […]
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