(Reuters) – Fierce battles broke out on Tuesday across Omdurman, the western part of Sudan’s wider capital, as the army tried cut off supply routes used by its paramilitary rivals to bring reinforcements into the city. The army launched air strikes and heavy artillery, and there were ground battles in several parts of Omdurman, witnesses…
By Libby George LONDON (Reuters) – Abdoulaye Diallo is paying over 50% more to fill up his “thiak-thiak” motorbike taxi in Keur Mbaye Fall, a suburb of Senegal’s capital Dakar, than he was before the government began lifting fuel subsidies in January. Diallo, 25, is already navigating punishing inflation and deadly political riots, but his…
CAIRO (Reuters) – Clashes between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensified on Sunday, as the war in the country’s capital and western regions entered its 12th week with no attempts in sight to bring a peaceful end to the conflict. Air and artillery strikes as well as small arms fire could be…
By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s main opposition party said it had decided to formally reject the results of the national election won by President Julius Maada Bio, citing “glaring irregularities”, and called for a rerun of the June 24 poll. Bio was re-elected for a second term with 56% of the vote,…
By Rodrigo Campos and Marc Jones NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – From BlackRock to JPMorgan, some of the world’s top investors are upbeat on emerging markets for the second half of the year on the prospect of falling interest rates, while signs of progress in tricky debt talks are set to buoy frontier markets. Positive headlines…
MALAKASA/KALAMATA, Greece (Reuters) – Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a clapped-out fishing trawler. They recounted hellish conditions above and below deck, with no food or water. Some also said the tragic end, when it came, was…
(Reuters) -The abortive mutiny by Russia’s Wagner group last week calls into question the fate of the group’s wide network of military and commercial operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This factbox shows what Wagner is doing and where. UKRAINE Wagner deployed in Ukraine soon after the invasion began early last year and…
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – The value of Chinese debt relief decreased by over 50% between 2021 and 2022, a report from Rhodium Group showed, with Angola alone receiving two thirds of deferrals despite China backing multilateral efforts to standardise support for poor countries. As the world’s largest bilateral creditor, China is central to…
By Duncan Miriri and Marc Jones NAIROBI/LONDON (Reuters) – As Pakistan spiralled into crisis this year, Wilson Muthaura pressed its government to put the tea Kenya’s KTDA co-operative produces 3,400 miles away on a list of essentials that would grant importers access to precious U.S. dollars. His urgent lobbying reflects anxiety about a scarcity of…
(Reuters) – Germany’s BMW will build its X3 model in South Africa from 2024, investing 4.2 billion rand ($225.09 million) to electrify its plant in Rosslyn, the company said in a statement on Thursday. “From 2024, we will produce the BMW X3 in South Africa as a plug-in hybrid and export it all over the…