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(Updates with campaign team saying Zammel is still in custody) By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel was still in detention on Friday despite being released for a few hours a day earlier, his campaign team said. Zammel is one of three candidates approved by Tunisia’s electoral commission to run in a …

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KAMPALA (Reuters) -The World Bank and French Development Agency (AFD) have given Uganda more than $600 million to fund infrastructure development and manage waste in the capital Kampala, the government and World Bank said on Thursday. Ugandans have complained about waste management and the poor state of the roads in Kampala, which suffers chronic underfunding …

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By Ange Kasongo and Justin Makangara KINSHASA (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo received its first batch of mpox vaccines on Thursday, which health authorities hope will help curb an outbreak that has prompted the U.N. to declare a global public health emergency. Congo is the epicentre of the outbreak, which has spread to neighbouring countries …

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By Amina Ismail CALAIS, France (Reuters) – Around 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Anwar Mansour, a 17-year-old Eritrean, and some 60 other migrants including women and children boarded a 10-meter(33-foot)-long dinghy on a beach in northern France and set off across the choppy waters of the Channel for Britain. Two hours out to sea, the vessel …

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By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s President Xi Jinping will open the ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit on Thursday, where he is expected to urge African leaders gathered in Beijing to absorb more Chinese goods in exchange for pledges of loans and investment. The three-yearly forum officially kicks off today with a welcome dinner …

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KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda’s main opposition leader Bobi Wine, who has emerged as the most formidable opponent of veteran President Yoweri Museveni, was shot in the leg by security agents in a northern suburb of the capital Kampala on Tuesday, his party said. Wine, a pop star turned politician whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, finished …

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