By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has asked his lawyers to prosecute six employees of telecoms operator Safaricom for conspiring with election board officials to rig the nullified Aug. 8 presidential poll. The Supreme Court annulled President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election on Sept. 1, citing irregularities and illegalities in the transmission […]
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s economic growth will be significantly hampered by increasing political uncertainty in the run-up to the ruling African National Congress’s leadership contest in December, Fitch said on Thursday. In a report released by its BMI research arm, Fitch said a turn to more “radical rhetoric and policy positions by the traditionalist […]
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By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) – Paris St Germain tore apart Bayern Munich to win 3-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday as the French club’s expensively-assembled attack made another devastating statement of their potency. Dani Alves, Edinson Cavani and Neymar found the net, with Kylian Mbappe also making his mark with two assists, to […]
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By Frank Pingue (Reuters) – Dwyane Wade has reunited with friend and former teammate LeBron James by signing a contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the NBA team said on Wednesday. Wade, who won two of his three NBA championships with James while the two were teammates with the Miami Heat from 2010-2014, joins a Cleveland […]
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By Andrew Both JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) – Tiger Woods said he was “optimistic” about his golfing future while at the same time publicly acknowledging what has been obvious for some time, that he might never return to competitive golf. The American former world number one won the last of his 14 major titles […]
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s rand weakened for a fourth straight session on Thursday, stretching losses against the dollar to a four-and-a-half low as indications that the United States would push through fiscal reforms lured investors into the greenback. At 0630 GMT the rand was 0.5 percent softer at 13.6600 per dollar compared to a […]
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa e-commerce giant Naspers said it had agreed to buy an additional 13 percent stake in online food takeaway firm Delivery Hero for $775 million. Under the deal, Naspers will buy about 22.4 million shares for 29.50 euros per share from German e-commerce investor Rocket Internet, increasing its stake to 23.6 […]
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By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Nearly half of the estimated 56 million abortions performed worldwide every year are unsafe and women in poor countries face even higher risks due to U.S. funding cuts to family planning programmes abroad, health experts said on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy that requires foreign […]
Read More ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Rebels in eastern Congo advanced to the outskirts of the city of Uvira near the Burundi border on Wednesday, residents said, sowing panic and confining thousands of civilians to their homes. The fighting between the Mai-Mai Yakutumba militia and the army was the latest example of mounting insecurity in Democratic Republic of […]
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, head of a group of five countries in Africa’s Sahel region, has asked the United States to remove a travel ban on Chadian nationals, saying that a failure to do so could affect Chad’s security commitments. Security analysts expressed surprise when Chad, a key U.S. security partner […]
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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, head of a group of five countries in Africa’s Sahel region, has asked the United States to remove a travel ban on Chadian nationals, saying that a failure to do so could affect Chad’s security commitments. Security analysts expressed surprise when Chad, a key U.S. security partner […]
Read More LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian authorities sent an emissary of an independence movement in the Western Sahara on a flight back to Spain after she spent two weeks in the Lima airport and refused to leave, the national migration authority said on Wednesday night. Jadiyetu El Mohtar, a Spanish citizen who describes herself as the ambassador […]
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