KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda has confirmed two more mpox virus infections, bringing the number of cases in the east African country to four, according to the health ministry. The two new patients were infected with the clade 1b strain of the virus, health ministry director general of health services Henry Mwebesa told Reuters, a new …
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -The U.S. military said on Friday that it would deliver 24 additional armored vehicles to Kenyan personnel deployed in Haiti who are heading a long-delayed security operation in the conflict-ravaged Caribbean nation. Some 400 Kenyan police, leading a U.N.-ratified security mission mandated to fight heavily armed gangs that have taken over most of …
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon has registered its first case of mpox, the health ministry said in a statement that did not specify which variant of the viral infection was recorded. The World Health Organization has declared mpox a global public health emergency, after an outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo spread to neighbouring countries …
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali declared a state of national disaster on Friday over floods that have killed 30 people and affected over 47,000 others since the start of the rainy season, the council of ministers said in a statement. Most years, the West and Central Africa region sees floods of varying severity between June and …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Tuareg rebels in northern Mali say they have yet to receive any direct communication from Moscow over the fate of fighters from the Russian mercenary Wagner Group whom they took prisoner last month in a battle near the Algerian border. A spokesperson for the rebel coalition, known as the Permanent Strategic Framework …
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – African countries want to use this year’s U.N. COP meetings to secure a much bigger share of global climate financing, their representatives said at a meeting in Kenya on Thursday, to help deal with the increased threats from climate change. African negotiators have drawn up a list of strategies …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -U.S.-led mediators said on Friday they had secured guarantees from Sudan’s warring parties at talks in Switzerland to improve access for humanitarian aid, but that the Sudanese army’s absence from the discussions had hindered progress. Over 10 days of talks a new group of mediators including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and …
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By Corina Pons TENERIFE, Spain (Reuters) – Spanish authorities fear that as many as 150,000 more migrants from Africa may be set to make the perilous crossing this year to the Canary Islands, already grappling with over 20,000 illegal arrivals so far, the regional leader said on Friday. “We are seeing (mass arrivals) in August …
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By El Tayeb Siddig PORT SUDAN, Sudan (Reuters) – For the second consecutive year Sudan is in the grip of a cholera outbreak that has left at least 28 people dead in the last month as rains fall in areas crammed with those fleeing the country’s 16-month-old war, officials said. Since July 22, when the current …
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LAUSANNE (Reuters) – Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya inched ever so close to the men’s 800 metres world record on Thursday, missing the global mark by two tenths of a second in winning the Lausanne Diamond League with the second fastest time in history. Wanyonyi, who turned 20 during the Paris Olympics, clocked one …
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