CAIRO (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Sunday it had certified Egypt as malaria free, marking the elimination of a disease that had been present in the country since ancient times. The WHO grants certification to countries that have proven beyond reasonable doubt that the chain of indigenous malaria transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes has been …
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Unidentified people abducted, beat and seriously injured a senior Tanzanian opposition party official before dumping her in a forest, her party said on Sunday, a month after a similar abduction and murder of another of its party leaders. The reported cases may taint the reformist image of President Samia Suluhu …
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By Krishn Kaushik PRANPURA, India (Reuters) – An Indian ex-official charged by the U.S. with directing a murder-for-hire plot has dismissed the allegations, his family said, expressing shock that Vikash Yadav was wanted by the FBI. Yadav, 39, described the claims as false media reports when he spoke to his cousin, Avinash Yadav, the relative …
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By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Gunmen killed a Mozambique opposition lawyer and a party official after firing multiple rounds at a car in which they were travelling on Saturday, rights groups said, ratcheting up tensions ahead of protests against a disputed election result. New opposition party Podemos and its presidential aspirant Venancio Mondlane reject provisional …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian court sentenced on Friday the prominent official in Ennahda opposition party Noureddine Bhiri to 10 years in prison, on charges of attacking state security and inciting Tunisians against each other, a lawyer told Reuters. Bhiri’s lawyer Monia Bouali, said the trial “was marred by many legal violations due to a Facebook …
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By Djaffar Al Katanty KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Congo needs to do more to raise awareness about mpox and the availability of vaccines, an official with the response team said on Thursday, warning the campaign to distribute the shots would take longer than anticipated Congo’s mpox vaccination campaign launched this month in …
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By Gleb Bryanski and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -The BRICS group will generate most of the global economic growth in the coming years thanks to its size and relatively fast growth compared with that of developed Western nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Putin hopes to build up BRICS – which has expanded …
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By George Obulutsa and Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan President William Ruto chose Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki as his new deputy on Friday, but a court blocked his appointment until it hears a case next week challenging the impeachment of Kindiki’s predecessor. The high court’s intervention came after lawmakers had already approved Kindiki’s appointment on …
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By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s government said on Friday that it had asked Taiwan to relocate its de facto embassy out of the capital Pretoria, while Taiwan accused it of bowing to pressure from China. South Africa rejected this characterization and said the move was standard diplomatic practice, given that it severed …
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By Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) – If Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s removal on charges of stirring ethnic hatred and undermining judicial independence was unprecedented, aspects of the Senate’s verdict late Thursday were very familiar to close watchers of the country’s politics. On the charge of corruption – which included allegations he had embezzled tens …
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