Newscast - Africa

Tanzania’s government has announced the resumption of uber and bolt ride-hailing services after weeks of controversy over the fate of the two companies.
Uber suspended their services in April, whereas bolt decided to switch to only-corporate clients in august after the government’s regulatory changes were enforced in march.
Tanzania's transport regulatory authority's director Habibu Suluo says the companies' challenges had been sorted out following a meeting with the government.
He says the agreement was favourable to both companies and members of the Tanzania online taxi drivers' association.

Kenya's president William Ruto gave orders to reverse some of the policies of his predecessor, Uhuru Kenyatta.
President Ruto appointed six judges nominated by the judicial service commission three years ago, who Mr Kenyatta had snubbed on claims they were tainted.
The new president also indicated that he would scrap food and fuel subsidies. He says they were costly and ineffective.
Mr Ruto says all cargo clearance would be reverted to Mombasa port - A roll back to Mr. Kenyatta's order that saw port services transferred to Naivasha to ensure repayment of A Chinese loan taken for the construction of A railway between the port of Mombasa and the capital, nairobi.

Nigeria's electoral commission says it has delisted more than A million newly registered voters after A verification process and cleaning up its voters' register.
Those affected had registered between June last year and January this year in order to acquire permanent voters' cards.
The independent national electoral commission says during that period 2,523,458 people registered but records of 1,126,359 registrants were discovered to be invalid and subsequently delisted.
The commission, explained that it was using an automated biometric identification system in verifying the voter register.

The Senate rejected the 2023-2025 medium-term expenditure framework and fiscal strategy paper which proposed A N6 trillion tax and import duties waivers proposed for in the N19.76 trillion 2023 budget which also contained A deficit of N12.4 trillion.
The chairman of the senate panel, senator Solomon Adeola says that both the projected N12.43 trillion budget deficit and the n6trillion tax and import duty waivers should be critically reviewed downward before sending the proposals to the national assembly for consideration and approval.
He also told the minister to look into the list of beneficiaries of the waivers for the required downward review to N3 trillion in order to give room for the reduction of the N12.43 trillion deficit figure.

Presidential candidate of the people's democratic party, Atiku Abubakar, says he would resuscitate Nigeria's ailing economy by launching A $10 billion economic stimulus fund within his first 100 days in office if he wins the 2023 presidential election.
Atiku says the fund would prioritise support to micro, small and medium-scale enterprises that offer the greatest opportunity for inclusive economic growth.
Atiku says he would rather privatize Nigeria's dilapidated refineries rather than spend $1.55 billion on their revitalization.
He added that he would stop all financial support to ailing public enterprises and over the medium term will propose legislation for the removal of the entire electricity value chain from the exclusive list and give states the power to generate, transmit and distribute electricity for themselves.

The United States government signed various agreements with the federal ministries of environment, petroleum resources, agriculture and rural development on measures to mitigate the crisis posed by climate change in Nigeria and globally.
US special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, stated that Nigeria was one of the nations in Africa that would suffer the most from the climate crisis if nothing serious was done to avert the consequences of climate change.
He also noted that the country, alongside others, would benefit from $12bn for climate action by the united states government.

The federal government says the African continental free trade area has opened up opportunities for the Nigerian financial industry.
Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari says an expanding infrastructure and a growing financial technology were also new opportunities which players in the Nigerian finance industry could leverage to boost revenue and multiply jobs.
He further said that the industry had an opportunity to deploy innovations in fintech for the extension of financial services to the under-served population while expanding the product space by leveraging the opportunities provided by other digital trading platforms such as warehousing, collateral management and crowd-funding.

The UK's unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 1974 in the three months to July, the latest official figures show.
The Office for National Statistics says the jobless rate fell to 3.6% over the period however, the squeeze on pay remains, with rises in regular pay failing to keep up with the rising cost of living.
Inflation remains at a 40-year high of 10.1%. The latest inflation figure, due out on Wednesday, is forecast to be higher.

Donald Trump’s lawyers have rejected the US Department of Justice’s push to resume its review of documents seized from the former president’s home during an FBI search last month.
The lawyers also questioned whether documents marked classified that were recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate were indeed secret files, suggesting that the former president may have declassified them before leaving office.
Trump’s lawyers argued that an independent arbiter, known as a special master, is needed to protect materials that contain attorney-client privilege, executive privilege and personal information, including medical and tax records, from being examined by the Justice Department

Egypt’s government was accused of severely restricting the work of environmental groups, leaving activists fearful of publicly scrutinising authorities ahead of the country hosting a crucial global climate summit.
New-York based group Human Rights Watch says Egyptian authorities have imposed arbitrary funding, research, and registration obstacles that have debilitated local environmental groups, forcing some activists into exile.
Richard Pearshouse, the environment director at HRW says these restrictions violate the rights to freedom of assembly and association and threaten Egypt’s ability to uphold its environmental and climate action commitments.