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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia on Monday lifted measures rationing electricity for homes and companies after a rise in water levels at hydroelectric dams, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting said. Fana quoted Seleshi Bekele, the minister for water and electricity, saying the changes were prompted by an increase in water levels at the country’s Gibe 3 dam. Seleshi had said in May when… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia on Monday lifted power rationing for homes and reduced loadshedding times for industries after water levels at hydroelectric dams rose, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting said. Fana quoted Seleshi Bekele, the minister for water and electricity, saying that water levels at the country’s Gibe 3 dam had increased, prompting the changes. Seleshi had said in May when announcing… Read More

DAKAR (Reuters) – Congolese soldiers fired in the air on Monday as illegal miners protested outside a metallurgical plant on a copper and cobalt concession run by Glencore, a witness said. The protest near the Luilu plant follows the eviction last week of thousands of illegal miners from Glencore’s Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession in southern Democratic Republic of Congo… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The former head of one of Kenya’s biggest stockbrokers has been fined 2.5 million shillings ($24,354.60) by the market regulator for sharing price sensitive information with two traders, the watchdog said on Monday. Andre DeSimone, who left his post as chief executive of Kestrel Capital in April after the insider trading allegations, has also been banned from… Read More

CAIRO (Reuters) – Air space re-opened at the Libyan capital’s only functioning airport, Mitiga, on Sunday after it was halted following a fall of missiles, according to a post on the Mitiga airport authority’s Facebook page. The airport authority added that the carrier companies will begin receiving passengers to complete the rest of their re-scheduled flights for the day shortly. Three Afriqiyah airlines… Read More

GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s government will appeal a high court ruling that decriminalised homosexuality, potentially resuscitating a law that punished gay sex by up to seven years in prison. Last month’s landmark court ruling, which was praised by international organisations and activists, meant Botswana joined a handful of African countries that have legalised same-sex relationships. But Attorney General Abraham Keetshabe… Read More

ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Unknown gunmen have kidnapped two Chinese workers and killed a policeman in the southern Nigerian state of Edo, a police spokesman said on Friday. The abductions took place on Wednesday on the outskirts of Benin City, the state capital, Edo state police commissioner Dan Malam Mohammed told Reuters, adding that the two workers were employed by… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – African leaders will decide on Sunday which nation will host the headquarters for a continental free-trade zone that aims to eventually unite the continent’s 1.27 billion people and its $3.4 trillion nominal gross domestic product. Leaders at the African Union summit in Niger will also set a date for trading to begin in the African Continental Free… Read More

TUNIS (Reuters) – Dozens of African migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia on Wednesday after setting off by boat for Europe from Libya, a government source and the Tunisian Red Crescent said. Some of the four initial survivors told the Tunisian coast guard on Thursday that the boat had sunk off the town of Zarzis, Red Crescent official Mongi… Read More

TUNIS (Reuters) – A boat carrying more than 70 migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia on Wednesday, the Tunisian Red Crescent said. Four survivors told the Tunisian coast guard on Thursday that the boat had sunk off the coast of Zarzis, Red Crescent official Mongi Slim told Reuters. Reporting by Tarek Amara; Editing by Hugh Lawson Read More