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British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was tried on a new charge of making "propaganda against the system" at Iran's Revolutionary court on Sunday, her lawyer said, one week after she completed a five-year jail sentence.
* Decision likely to delay country's efforts to remove liability for some of the debt
3 Min Read (Reuters) - Central African Republic will vote in a second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday under high security after a surge in rebel violence surrounding December’s polls. President Faustin-Archange Touadera greets supporters after highest court confirmed his re-election at his party headquarter in Bangui, Central Africa Republic January 18, 2021. REUTERS/Antoine Rolland Insurgents laid siege to the capital Bangui in January, strangling food supply routes, forcing more than 200,000 from their homes, and raising concerns that the country was slipping back into the kin...
By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read DAKAR (Reuters) - Avima Iron Ore Limited said on Thursday it had written to Congo Republic’s government to demand it either reinstate the company’s production licence that was stripped last November or pay damages of $27 billion. Avima’s iron ore licence was one of three that Congo’s government revoked late last year and handed to a little-known company backed by Chinese investment called Sangha Mining Development Sasu. The government said the companies had failed to meet their obligations to develop their concessions. The companies deny this. One of them, ...
* Decision a set back to Mozambique's efforts to remove liability for some of the debt