Tag: Reuters
Facebook, Twitter take action over Trump’s misleading COVID-19 posts
Facebook Inc and Twitter took action on posts from U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday for violating their rules against coronavirus misinformation by suggesting that COVID-19 was just like the flu. Facebook took the post down but not before it was shared about 26,000 times, data from the company’s metric tool CrowdTangle showed. “We remove ...Four dead, 16 missing after failed Mediterranean crossing
Four migrants have died and up to 16 more are missing after trying to cross into Europe from North Africa on a small raft, Spain’s coastguard said on Wednesday. Rescuers saved 58 people from the raft, which was found drifting around 37 miles off the coast of Morocco on Tuesday night. Three bodies were recovered ...Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic outlook uncertain as global growth teeters – Reuters poll
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy will accelerate going into next year but could be derailed as the world moves onto an uncertain path that could bring an end to the recent synchronized uptrend, a Reuters poll showed on Monday. Economists’ views differ starkly about where exactly in the cycle the global economy is and some reckon it ...Ships passed us by, says sole survivor of migrant tragedy
The only survivor of a disastrous attempt by 15 migrants to reach Europe by sea from Libya said ships passed them by and ignored their pleas to be rescued. “They were very, very close to us, they could see us from the windows, but when they saw us they ran away,” Mohammed Adam Oga, an ...Facebook paid contractors to transcribe users’ audio clips- Bloomberg
Facebook Inc has been paying outside contractors to transcribe audio clips from users of its services, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company confirmed that it had been transcribing users’ audio and said it was no longer doing so, Bloomberg reported. Facebook did not immediately respond to a Reuters request ...Facebook’s flood of new languages leaves it struggling to monitor content
Facebook Inc’s struggles with hate speech and other types of problematic content are being hampered by the company’s inability to keep up with a flood of new languages as mobile phones bring social media to every corner of the globe. The company offers its 2.3 billion users features such as menus and prompts in 111 ...Dangote Targets Foreign Markets to Step Up Exports of Petroleum Products, Cement, Others
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, said on Monday that he will step up exports of cement and other commodities from Nigeria from this year as he focuses on foreign markets to boost sales and generate much-needed hard currency. Dangote told Reuters he expected to have 8 million tonnes of cement to start exporting ...Nigeria Will Grow 2.5 per cent This Year Despite Tighter Global Conditions-Reuters poll
Sub-Saharan economies will cope with tighter global liquidity this year and grow faster than in 2018, albeit at a lackluster rate compared to the commodity price boom heydays of a decade ago, a Reuters poll found. As interest rates tighten in developed markets and trade tensions between two of the world’s largest ...Foiled Coup: Gabon Arrests Four Military Officers
President Ali Bongo of Gabon Gabon foiled an attempted military coup on Monday, arresting several plotters just hours after they took over state radio in a bid to end 50 years of rule by President Ali Bongo’s family. Government spokesman Guy-Bertrand Mapangou told Reuters that four of the five officers who had taken ...Nigeria’s Energy Sector’s Crippling Debts Delay Next Power Plant
Plans to build another privately-financed power station in Nigeria to help end decades of chronic blackouts have been delayed because of concerns about persistent shortfalls in payments for electricity across the sector. The $1.1 billion Qua Iboe Power Plant being developed by energy infrastructure company Black Rhino and the state-owned Nigerian National ...
