KINSHASA (Reuters) – The death toll from a river boat accident in western Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to at least 29 with at least 128 survivors identified and an unknown number still missing, local authorities said on Thursday. Rescue efforts have been under way for days after the boat carrying between 250 and …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A fraction of available aid has passed through the Adre border crossing from Chad into Sudan’s hunger-ravaged Darfur region this week following a move by the Sudanese army to temporarily lift a ban on deliveries. The army’s rivals in the country’s devastating 16-month-old war control most of Darfur and the Adre crossing, …
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By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) – Five Kenyan police officers were arraigned on Wednesday, accused of helping a suspected serial killer and 12 others escape from a police station in the capital Nairobi, court documents showed. Prosecutors asked the court to detain the policemen, who were on duty during Tuesday’s jail break, for two weeks …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) -The military juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have written to the U.N. Security Council to denounce what they said was Ukraine’s support for rebel groups in West Africa’s Sahel region, Mali’s foreign ministry said. Mali cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine in early August over comments by a spokesperson for Ukraine’s military …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda is exploring for oil in two new regions where potential discoveries of crude could increase the East African country’s proven reserves of 6.5 billion barrels, its energy minister said on Wednesday. Commercial quantities of crude oil were discovered in the Albertine Graben basin in Uganda’s west near the border with the …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The United Nation’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) appealed on Wednesday for $18.5 million in assistance to provide health care services to people impacted by the mpox outbreak in East and Southern Africa, according to a statement. “The spread of mpox across East, Horn, and Southern Africa is a grave concern, especially …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand has detected an mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on Wednesday. Thai authorities were treating the case as if it were the Clade 1 form of mpox, as the person, a 66-year-old …
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By Humeyra Pamuk DOHA (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought during a whirlwind trip to the Middle East to inject urgency into efforts to broker a Gaza ceasefire deal, but departed the region on Tuesday with an agreement between Israel and Hamas still elusive. Blinken and mediators from Egypt and Qatar have pinned …
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By Djaffar Al Katanty KANYARUTSHINYA CAMP, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Justine Munguiko could not recall the name of the disease she had been warned about. She knew only that her baby Fidele had painful sores similar to those suffered by other children at the displacement camp near the eastern Congolese city of Goma. …
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By Anait Miridzhanian DAKAR (Reuters) -The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other African countries could start vaccinating against mpox within days, Africa’s top public health agency said on Tuesday. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has been working with countries experiencing mpox outbreaks on logistics and communication strategies to roll …
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