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EXCLUSIVE-S.Africa to push for military action against Mozambique insurgents Reuters 4 hrs ago * SADC summit in Botswana to look at issue next week * Islamic State-linked militants attacking since 2017 By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, May 21 (Reuters) - South Africa will press for urgent military action by regional body SADC to quell an Islamist insurgency in Mozambique threatening to destabilize neighboring countries, the foreign minister said on Friday. It will make this call at a summit of the ...

By Reuters Staff (Removes extraneous initials in headline, no other changes) JOHANNESBURG, May 21 (Reuters) - Britain’s High Court granted Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder Privinvest permission on Friday to file a lawsuit against Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, a counter-move in a case over a $2 billion corruption scandal, Privinvest said on Friday. The case relates to government-guaranteed loans raised in 2013 and 2014 for projects, including a tuna-fishing fleet, for which Privinvest was the ...

By Frank Phiri A batch of 102,000 vaccines arrived on March 26, under an initiative by the AU and WHO, and they expired on April 13, leaving less than three weeks for them to be used. Malawi managed to deploy about 80 percent of them by that time. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), part of the AU, told a news conference late last month that the shots could be used until July 13, based on a further analysis conducted by manufacturers ...

* Govt caught between bondholders and China (Adds creditor comment, bond reaction) LUSAKA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Zambia has reached a deal to defer debt repayments that were due this month on a loan from the China Development Bank (CDB), Zambia’s government said, without giving the size of the loan or the debt repayments that were due. Zambia owed CDB roughly $391 million at the end of last year - about a tenth of the $3 billion it owes Chinese entities - according to the finance ministry. It wa...

By David Lewis and Allison Martell March 1 (Reuters) - For much of last year, the coronavirus crept, undetected, across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Test samples had to be sent more than 1,500 kilometres from remote hospitals to the capital Kinshasa. Results took weeks to come back. Some of the infected returned home, spreading the virus. In Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, bodies piled up in the morgue. Senior doctors described total confusion. Five doctors and 10 nurses we...

Africa's reported COVID-19 death toll surpassed 100,000 on Friday, a fraction of those reported on other continents but rising fast as a second wave of infections overwhelms hospitals.

Article content JOHANNESBURG — Africa’s reported COVID-19 death toll surpassed 100,000 on Friday, a fraction of those reported on other continents but rising fast as a second wave of infections overwhelms hospitals. The continent’s reported deaths, at 100,354, compare favorably with North America, which has registered more than half a million, and Europe, which is approaching 900,000, a Reuters tally shows. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or ...

HEALTH–CORONAVIRUS/AFRICA-DEATH (PIX, TV):Africa COVID-19 deaths near 100,000 after second wave

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma did not show up on Monday at an inquiry into corruption during his time in office,...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma did not show up on Monday at an inquiry into corruption during his time in office, despite the…