DAKAR (Reuters) – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is able to raise $600 million to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, the agency’s head said on Thursday. The World Health Organization declared mpox a global health emergency in mid-August, after a new strain began spreading from the Democratic …
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RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco on Thursday confirmed its first Mpox case in a man in Marrakech, the health ministry said. The World Health Organization declared the recent outbreak of the disease a public health emergency of international concern after the new variant was identified. The ministry did not offer details on the case and did …
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African fashion retailer Truworths on Thursday reported a 6.3% decline in full-year profit, citing a drop in discretionary spending by customers squeezed by high interest rates. The upmarket retailer said headline earnings per share for the year to June 30 fell to 817.9 cents from 873.3 cents a year earlier. Its shares …
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By Stanis Bujakera and Sonia Rolley KINSHASA (Reuters) – More than 260 female inmates were sexually assaulted during an attempted mass escape from Democratic Republic of Congo’s Makala Central Prison this month, an internal U.N. report reviewed by Reuters showed. At least 129 people were killed when prison guards used live fire against inmates trying …
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By Vuyani Ndaba JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The South African Reserve Bank will cut its repo rate by 25 basis points to 8.00% at its Sept. 19 meeting as slowing inflation opens the door to easier policy for the first time since its COVID-19 response over four years ago, economists say. Eighteen of 21 economists surveyed …
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian coast guards recovered the bodies of five African women migrants and a baby in waters off the town of Monastir, a judge said on Thursday. Judge Farid Ben Jha told Reuters that the bodies had been recovered late on Wednesday and that the migrants had come from sub-Saharan Africa. (Reporting by …
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BISSAU (Reuters) – Guinea Bissau’s President Umaro Cissoko Embalo said on Thursday he would not run for a second term in elections in November. Embalo, 51, was elected in January 2020 to succeed outgoing president Jose Mario Vaz. He defeated runner-up Domingos Simoes Pereira with 54% of the vote and would have been eligible for …
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(Reuters) -Some countries have pledged to donate doses of mpox vaccines to combat an outbreak of the disease in Africa, after the World Health Organization declared it a global public health emergency in August for the second time in two years. Such donations are meant to address the huge inequity that left African nations with …
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey is interested in an offer from Tripoli to carry out energy exploration offshore Libya, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday. “Libya has offered to us to work with our seismic vessels offshore. Frankly, we are warm to this. So we can be in the Libyan offshore to carry out …
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By Sonia Rolley (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo will start its mpox vaccination campaign on Oct. 2, nearly a week earlier than previously planned, the head of its outbreak response said on Wednesday. Congo is the epicentre of the ongoing mpox outbreak that the World Health Organization declared to be a global public health …
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