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By Eltayeb Siddig ARBAAT, Sudan (Reuters) – Emergency responders were scrambling on Tuesday to find out how many people remain missing after waters burst through a dam in eastern Sudan, resulting in the worst in a series of floods that have devastated a country already torn by 500 days of war. The collapse of the …

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By Felix Onuah LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a visit to China next week to discuss cooperation on the economy, agriculture and satellite technology, a Nigerian government spokesperson said on Tuesday. Tinubu, who has set in motion deep reforms in Africa’s largest economy, will be in …

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By Bhargav Acharya and Sonia Rolley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has asked Japan to donate at least 2 million doses of mpox vaccine, a senior official at Africa’s top public health body and a Congolese official said on Tuesday. Japan’s government said last week that Congo had requested mpox vaccine shots, …

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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain will donate 500,000 doses of the mpox vaccine, or 20% of its stockpile, to combat an outbreak of the disease in Africa, the Health Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. It added that the country had urged the European Commission to propose that all EU member states donate 20% of their …

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By Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected and often in areas where experts lack the funding and equipment to properly track it. That means there are multiple unknowns about the …

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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Tinubu named new homeland security and foreign intelligence chiefs on Monday, a week after their predecessors resigned abruptly, as Africa’s most populous nation fights a northeastern insurgency and rampant kidnappings. Mohammed Mohammed, who headed Nigeria’s mission to Libya, will lead the National Intelligence Agency. Adeola Ajayi will helm the …

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