CAIRO (Reuters) -Libyan authorities have dismantled a human trafficking network operating in the country’s southwest and arrested members of the group, the country’s Attorney General’s office said on its Facebook page on Saturday. Authorities arrested one of the network’s leaders and 10 members who are accused of murder, illegal detention, torture, and rape of migrants, …
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By Isaac Anyaogu LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria will begin vaccinations for mpox from October 8 after regulatory approvals are concluded, a spokesperson for the country’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency told a local newspaper on Saturday. Nigeria received the first batch of 10,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the U.S. Agency for International …
GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization chief said on Friday that mpox vaccines were set to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the next few days to fight a new strain of the virus. “We hope to have the first delivery in the next few days, and then it will build up,” Director …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Algeria has been authorised to become a member of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), the bank’s president, Dilma Rousseff, said on Saturday. A multilateral development bank, the NDB was established by the BRICS group of developing countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – in 2015. Bangladesh, Egypt, …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – A woman who survived the massacre of hundreds of villagers in central Burkina Faso described the horror of searching through bodies to find her brothers, in an interview following the attack claimed by an Al Qaeda-linked group earlier this week. “We went out with carts to collect the bodies of my older …
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By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – A year since a military coup in Gabon ended the Bongo dynasty’s 56-year rule, the country marked the anniversary in festive mood this week with celebrations and promises by the ruling junta to step up progress on reforms. The Gabonese largely welcomed the military’s ouster of president Ali …
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -The New Development Bank has approved a new loan of up to $1 billion to finance water and sanitation projects among poorer households in South Africa, the bank said in a statement on Saturday. The loan will be used under South Africa’s Municipal Infrastructure Grant, a conditional grant used by municipalities to …
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(Reuters) -The Libyan oil export port of Hariga has stopped operating due to insufficient crude supplies, two engineers at the terminal told Reuters on Saturday, as a standoff between rival political factions shuts most of the country’s oilfields. This week’s flare-up in a dispute over control of the central bank threatens a new bout of …
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(Reuters) -Three Arab Israeli tourists and two Egyptian hotel workers were injured after a fight broke out in the Egyptian town of Taba on the border with Israel on Friday, Egyptian security sources said. The sources said a physical altercation erupted when an Arab Israeli tourist verbally insulted an Egyptian hotel employee, sparking a melee …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is imposing visa restrictions on members of the government and others who have obstructed humanitarian aid to the country by taxing shipments, the State Department said on Friday. South Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of civil war from 2013-2018, is experiencing one of …
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