Newscast - Africa

Officials say Fresh Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine the latest in a series of attacks that have crippled Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Kyiv regional officials announced that Two cruise missiles were shot down over Kyiv.
Prime Minister Denys Shmygal says they are shelling our gas production and our enterprises in Dnipro at an economic forum in Kyiv, the Interfax.
Ukrainian energy company Ukrenergo warned about power outages throughout Ukraine, as consumption increased due to temperatures falling sharply.

Serbia is introducing visas for Tunisian and Burundian citizens, responding to EU criticism that the country is a backdoor into the bloc for migrants. Turks and Indians are expected to join them shortly.
The EU Commission says it would consider suspending Serbia’s own visa-waiver rights to the bloc if it failed to curtail migrants using it as a gateway to the European Union.
President Aleksandar Vucic held talks with Austrian and Hungarian leaders and agreed to deploy more police resources along Serbia’s southern border, a major route for undocumented migrants.

Ethiopia's Government Communication Service Minister Legese Tulu says that all forces fighting in the Tigray region who are not part of the federal army will withdraw as soon as the Tigrayan rebels disarm.
Amhara and Afar regional forces, as well as Eritrean troops, have been fighting alongside the federal forces in the two-year war against the rebels of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
The government and the TPLF signed a peace agreement on 2 November in Pretoria, South Africa, to end the war in the north of the country, and the army and rebel commanders also signed a cessation of hostilities agreement in Nairobi, Kenya, on 12 November.

The Egyptian president of the UN climate conference, Sameh Shoukry, has told delegates that time is not on their side if a deal is to be concluded before the scheduled close of the conference on Friday.
There have been warnings that negotiations are progressing too slowly because of deep divisions on some central issues.
A draft agreement published does not include directions for the launch of a loss and damage fund to assist the most vulnerable countries.
This has been a demand of many developing nations. Nor does the draft introduce a broad commitment to phase down all fossil fuels, rather than just coal, as has been proposed by India and the European Union

A new study has found that climate change severely worsened the heavy rains that caused large-scale flooding across swathes of Nigeria and Niger this year, killing hundreds of people.
The floods were recorded as the worst-ever in the two countries.
The report by World Weather Attribution says extreme seasonal rainfall and the release of water from dams caused the flooding from June to October.
They concluded the event was made 80 times more likely by climate change.
Almost 1.5 million people were displaced, hundreds of thousands of homes were swept away and over half a million hectares of farmland was devastated by the floods.mistake

The hearing of the N20bn suit filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, against the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has been discontinued.
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja had fixed November 18 for the hearing of the suit, which also named the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Abubakar, as a defendant.
Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, says the case had been discontinued. Kanu, through Ejimakor, had filed a writ of summons.

The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration says Ghana is not aware of any threat targeted at its nationals living in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory in Abuja.
The Ghanaian ministry also disowned a security update advising against non-essential trips to Abuja.
The United States and the United Kingdom had in October warned of possible terror attacks in Abuja, especially at government buildings, places of worship, schools and other centers where large crowds gather.
Both countries also commenced the evacuation of their citizens from the Nigerian political capital.
Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed however dismissed the terror alerts, saying the government won’t be stampeded and that Nigeria is safer than in May 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari came into office.

The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tiamin Rice Company for the processing and sale of rice locally and internationally.
The Deputy Managing Director of Tiamin Rice Company, Mr. Aliyu Ibrahim, says the initiative was aimed at the cultivation of quality rice paddy by RIFAN, while Tiamin processes and packages with state-of-the-art milling technology for sale locally and internationally, particularly to Egypt.
He says the MoU, which would be operational for a period of two years was signed at the company’s 600-metric tonnes per hour capacity mill in Bauchi State.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged world leaders to back a plan to end the war in his country, saying now was the time to push for peace after Russia’s defeat in the southern city of Kherson.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine would not allow Russian forces to regroup after their withdrawal from Kherson, and said there would be more fighting until Ukraine reclaims control of all of its occupied territory.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned the G20 against the weaponization of food and energy, in a possible veiled criticism of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Xi says they must firmly oppose politicization, instrumentalization, and weaponization of food and energy problems.