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Police arrest suspect in deadly Ecuador blast
Police arrest suspect in deadly Ecuador blast
by  AFP

Ecuadoran police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in a weekend blast that killed five people in the port city of Guayaquil and was blamed by the government on organized crime, the interior minister said Wednesday. So far this year, 861 people have been killed in the Guayaquil metropolitan area. pld/dga/mlr/dw

Workers' strike targets power stations in Nigeria
Workers' strike targets power stations in Nigeria
by  AFP

Nigerian electricity workers on Wednesday began an indefinite strike over pay, throwing parts of Africa's most populous nation into darkness, a union leader said. The National Union of Electricity Employees called the nationwide industrial action to compel the government to honour a 2019 agreement to pay retired workers of a former state-owned electricity company.

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