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By Reuters Staff1 Min ReadFILE PHOTO: Nigeria's Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele briefis the media during the MPC meeting in Abuja, Nigeria January 24, 2020.... REUTERS/ Afolabi Sotunde/ File Photo ABUJA( Reuters)-Nigeria plans to launch its own crypto currency, called the “ e-naira ”, in October, its central bank governor said on Tuesday. Nigeria barred its banks and financial institutions from dealing in or facilitating transactions in cryptocurrencies in February. Central Bank Governor

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadFILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares a dose of the Sinopharm coronavirus disease( COVID-19) vaccine at Wilkins Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe, March 24, 2021.... He said the government would inoculate 1 million people during the extended lockdown period. The southern African nation has to date recorded 70, 426 infections, a quarter of them in the past two weeks and 2, 236 deaths, official data showed.... It expects another 3.5 million shots by the end of July. Reporting by MacD

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadNIAMEY( Reuters)-Unidentified armed men have killed 37 civilians, including 14 children, in an attack on a village in southwest Niger, according to internal security service memos and a local official. The attack occurred on Monday in the commune of Banibangou, in the Tillabery region near the Malian border, where Islamist militants have massacred hundreds of civilians this year. The government did not respond to requests for comment on the information shared by two sec

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadA health care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease( COVID-19) vaccine before being given to people who had previously been inoculated against the coronavirus disease( COVID-19) with Sinovac's Coronavac vaccine, in the Hospital de Clinicas, in Montevideo, Uruguay August 16, 2021.... REUTERS/ Mariana Greif/ Files GENEVA( Reuters)-Current data does not indicate that COVID-19 booster shots are needed, the World Health Organization( WHO) said on

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadABUJA( Reuters)-Nigeria will next year conduct its first census in 17 years to try to accurately survey its population, estimated at more than 200 million people and the largest in Africa, the head of the national population agency said on Thursday. Censuses are controversial in Nigeria because rival ethnic and religious groups have in the past tried to use them to assert their numerical superiority and claim a larger share of oil revenues and political representation.

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 15( Reuters)-South Africa's rand edged lower against the dollar on Friday, weighed down by a worsening power crisis, ahead of local inflation figures and an interest rate decision next week.At 1538 GMT, the rand traded at 19. 0550 against the dollar, over 0.1% weaker than its previous close. While state power utility Eskom reduced the intensity of power cuts for the weekend, the possibility of higher levels of power cuts than the" Stage 6" experienced by South Africans for the

ABUJA, Nov 8( Reuters)-Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has signed into law a$ 2.8 billion supplementary budget that includes funding for new bulletproof cars for himself and his wife, despite widespread criticism from citizens facing a cost-of-living crisis. The budget, which was approved by lawmakers on Nov.... 2, also includes allocations for a presidential yacht, official vehicles for the first lady's office, and renovations to the president's residential quarters. The spending plan was initi