(Reuters) – The humanitarian crisis from the civil war in Sudan is also exacerbating infections including cholera, and the bacterial disease has killed more than 300 people in the region, a World Health Official said on Friday. WHO official Margaret Harris said in a media call that 11,327 cholera cases with 316 deaths had been …
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By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Johannesburg elected a new mayor on Friday, the seventh in three years to lead South Africa’s biggest city as residents complain of worsening crime and basic services. Dada Morero, of the African National Congress, was elected after his predecessor Kabelo Gwamanda resigned under pressure. Johannesburg’s governance has been defined …
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(Reuters) – At least six Burkina Faso magistrates have been conscripted to serve in the military this month for taking action against pro-junta activists and other individuals, three unions of magistrates said in a joint statement. The West African country’s ruling military junta, which seized power in a 2022 coup, is accused of suppressing dissent …
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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – At least 20 students travelling for a convention were kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s north-central state of Benue, the police said on Friday, the latest in a spate of abductions in Africa’s most populous country. Armed gangs have been causing havoc in northern Nigeria, where they kidnap villagers, students …
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By Nyasha Nyaungwa WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia has resumed imports of live poultry and birds from South Africa, the agriculture ministry said in a statement on Friday. Namibia banned imports of live poultry, birds and poultry products from neighbouring South Africa in September 2023, following an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the country. …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – The number of people killed when a mountain of garbage collapsed in Uganda’s capital last week has risen to 35, 12 of whom were young people, police said on Friday. At least 28 others are still missing. The accident occurred late last Friday, when a large chunk broke off the mound of …
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By Ludwig Burger and Miranda Murray (Reuters) -Far more diagnostic kits, treatments and vaccines need to be shipped to Africa to respond adequately to the outbreak of a new strain of the mpox virus there, an official of the Red Cross and Red Crescent humanitarian network said on Friday. “There is a critical shortage of …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – With her face caked in honey and hair smothered in butter, Saba Yilma wafts clouds of fragrant smoke out from under a heavy leather cloak to help moderate the temperature of her “weyba tis”, a traditional Ethiopian sauna therapy. Sat on a chair above a small fire of smouldering twigs and …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The global vaccine group Gavi has up to $500 million to spend on getting shots to countries affected by an escalating mpox outbreak in Africa, its chief executive Sania Nishtar told Reuters. Gavi helps countries with fewer resources buy and deploy vaccines, usually against childhood diseases like measles, but it …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Talks aimed at ending Sudan’s shattering 16-month-old civil war began on Wednesday in Switzerland although the absence of the military dampened hopes for imminent steps to alleviate the country’s humanitarian crisis. U.N. officials have warned that Sudan is at “breaking point” and that there will be tens of thousands of preventable deaths …
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