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• May 13, 2023

  Report: Netflix Plans $300 Million Spending Chop

  NEW YORK - Netflix Inc. plans to cut its spending by $300 million this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on May 12,, citing people familiar with the matter.

• May 12, 2023

  South African Airways Majority Sale OK'd

  JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's competition watchdog on Friday recommended the approval of a proposed deal for the Takatso Consortium to buy a majority stake in state-owned airline South African Airways (SAA), provided certain conditions are met.

• May 12, 2023

  Ramaphosa, Putin Discuss Ukraine

  MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow had never refused the "diplomatic track" to resolving the conflict in Ukraine in a phone call with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, the Kremlin said.

• May 12, 2023

  Ghana Creditors Set Talks Ahead of IMF Loan

  ACCRA - Ghana's official creditors have formed a committee co-chaired by China and France to launch debt restructurings talks, the Paris Club said on Friday, paving the way for a sign-off on a $3 billion International Monetary Fund loan for the country.

• May 12, 2023

  More 'Starvation Cult' Bodies Found

  SHAKAHOLA FOREST, KENYA - Investigators unearthed 29 more bodies on Friday in a continuing search for victims of a doomsday cult in the country's southeast.

• May 12, 2023

  Sudan Fighting Hampering Export Trade

  DUBAI - Sudan's sudden eruption into war has strangled exports of key goods including gold, sesame, peanuts and meat, traders based in Dubai say, depriving it of the foreign currency needed to import staple goods.

• May 12, 2023

  South Africa Denies Arming Russia

  JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, had "admitted that he crossed a line" and "apologized unreservedly" after he said a Russian ship had picked up weapons in South Africa last year, causing a diplomatic uproar.

• May 12, 2023

  Sudan Combatants: No Cease-Fire But Civilians Protected

  UPDATED TO INCLUDE U.N. ENVOY PERTHES COMMENTS: KHARTOUM - Sudan's warring factions early on Friday committed to protect civilians and the movement of humanitarian aid, but did not agree to a cease-fire and remain far apart, U.S. officials said.

• May 11, 2023

  Elon Musk Announces New Twitter Chief

  Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that he has found a new chief executive for the social media platform and its newly named X Corporation parent.

• May 11, 2023

  ICC Issues Sealed Arrest Warrants for Libya Crimes

  THE HAGUE — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that the court has issued four new secret arrest warrants for crimes allegedly committed in Libya since 2011.

• May 11, 2023

  UN Council Addresses Sudan Human Rights Abuses Amidst African Contention

  The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday narrowly passed a motion to increase monitoring of Sudan's human rights abuses amidst opposition from African nations. With 18 in favor, 15 opposed, and 14 abstaining, no African country supported the Western-backed initiative. Sudan's ambassador Hassan Hamid Hassan described the conflict as an internal affair and called for "African solutions for African problems."

• May 11, 2023

  IMF: 'Good Progress' on Ghana Funding

  WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it has seen "good progress" in delivering bilateral financing assurances to Ghana that are needed for the IMF executive board to consider a three-year, $3 billion loan program for the west African country.

• May 11, 2023

  Wagner Denies Sudan Presence

  MOSCOW - Russia's Wagner mercenary group is not operating in Sudan and has not been involved in politics there since Omar al-Bashir was deposed by army officers in a 2019 uprising, its head Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Thursday.

• May 11, 2023

  Ramaphosa Denies Power Grid Failure

  JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa denied on Thursday that his government had failed over crippling power cuts, saying already-announced interventions would reduce pressure on the grid.

• May 11, 2023

  South Africa March Manufacturing Down

  JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's manufacturing output fell 1.1% year on year in March after falling by a revised 5.6% in February, statistics agency data showed on Thursday.

• May 11, 2023

  North Africa Nations' Debt Deepens

  LONDON - Tunisia and Egypt are edging closer to major debt crises which could suck in a volatile North Africa region and pose tough choices to wealthy Gulf Arab neighbors, investors and analysts warn.

• May 11, 2023

  EU Body Advances AI Legislation

  BRUSSELS - Authorities around the world are racing to draw up rules for artificial intelligence, including in the European Union, where a European Parliament committee has voted to strengthen the legislation, part of a years-long effort by Brussels to draw up guardrails for artificial intelligence.

• May 11, 2023

  Turk: Sudan Peace Needs International Involvement

  UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FROM SUDAN GOVERNMENT: GENEVA - U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Thursday urged countries with influence in Africa to help end the fighting in Sudan and said that both warring sides had "trampled" international humanitarian law.

• May 10, 2023

  Trapped Residents Share Daily Life in Khartoum War Zone

  Since fighting erupted in Sudan on April 15, providing life necessities became a challenging task for the capital residents who face dwindling food supplies, power cuts, water shortages, and patchy telecoms. It's more like living in “a jungle,” Hashim who remains stranded in Khartoum says.

• May 10, 2023

  2 Dead, Others Injured in Guinea Anti-Government Protest

  CONAKRY — Two people died and many were injured during clashes on Wednesday between riot police and anti-government protesters in Guinea's capital Conakry, two doctors who worked in a city clinic and a human rights advocate told Reuters. 

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