* Ramaphosa says xenophobia has traumatised country * Nigerians quit WEF event over anti-foreigner attacks * Ten killed in week of anti-foreigner attacks * Ministers say South Africa working to tackle problem (Updates with Ramaphosa address) By Wendell Roelf and Alexander Winning CAPE TOWN, Sept 5 (Reuters) – South Africa promised on Thursday to tackle […]
Read More DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Tanzania’s national carrier suspended its flights from the commercial capital Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg on Thursday, citing ongoing violence that was a risk to its passengers. “You are aware that there is ongoing violence in South Africa whereby the youth have taken laws in their hands,” Tanzania’s […]
Read More * Nigerians quit WEF event over anti-foreigner attacks * Ramaphosa also absent, at anti-gender violence meeting * Seven killed in week of anti-foreigner attacks * Ministers say South Africa working to tackle problem (Updates death toll, adds banks’ comments) By Wendell Roelf and Alexander Winning CAPE TOWN, Sept 5 (Reuters) – South Africa’s government said […]
Read More ABUJA, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Nigeria will recall its top diplomat to South Africa, where riots in recent days have targeted foreigners including many Nigerians, the West African country’s information minister said on Thursday. Nigeria is recalling its high commissioner as it sends a special envoy to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to address xenophobic […]
Read More * Nigerians pull out of WEF-run conference over attacks * Ramaphosa also absent, at anti-gender violence meeting * Five Africans killed this week in anti-foreigner attacks * Ministers say South Africa working to tackle problem (Adds pullouts, minister comments) By Wendell Roelf and Alexander Winning CAPE TOWN, Sept 5 (Reuters) – South Africa’s government acknowledged […]
Read More (Adds details, context) CAPE TOWN, Sept 5 (Reuters) – South Africa’s Foreign Minister acknowledged on Thursday that prejudice against people from other African countries was one of the causes behind deadly attacks on foreign-owned businesses, a day after Pretoria was forced to shut its embassy in Nigeria over threats of retaliatory violence. At least five […]
Read More CAPE TOWN, Sept 5 (Reuters) – South Africa has temporarily closed its embassy in Nigeria after threats led to fears for staff safety, Foreign Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor told Reuters, after attacks this week on foreign-owned businesses in South Africa caused a diplomatic spat. She said South Africa was in constant contact with Nigerian authorities […]
Read More (Repeats SEPT 4 story to add link to TV. No change to text) By Alexis Akwagyiram and Chijioke Ohuocha ABUJA, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Nigeria is using a system of tax credits to encourage private companies to share the cost of infrastructure projects as part of a drive to diversify Africa’s biggest economy away from […]
Read More KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Malaysia’s biggest supermarket chain Mydin has removed products labelled palm-oil-free from its stores, its top executive said on Thursday, as part of a campaign by the world’s second-largest producer of the oil to protect the commodity’s image at home and abroad. The $60 billion world palm oil trade has […]
Read More (Adds Exxon statement) By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s and Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s effort to revive a $1.8 billion arbitration award against Nigeria’s state-run oil company, which stemmed from a dispute over a 1993 contract to extract oil near the African country’s […]
Read More NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s and Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s effort to revive a $1.8 billion arbitration award against Nigeria’s state-run oil company, which stemmed from a dispute over a 1993 contract to extract oil near the African country’s coastline. U.S. District Judge William Pauley […]
Read More ABUJA, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Nigeria is using a system of tax credits to encourage private companies to share the cost of infrastructure projects as part of a drive to diversify Africa’s biggest economy away from its reliance on oil sales, the country’s tax chief said. Tunde Fowler, executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue […]
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