By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council on Thursday demanded a halt to the siege of al-Fashir – a city of 1.8 million people in Sudan’s North Darfur region – by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and an immediate end to fighting in the area. The 15-member council adopted a …
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By Giulia Paravicini and Steve Stecklow (Reuters) – An estimated 756,000 people in Sudan could face catastrophic food shortages by September, according to a preliminary projection used by United Nations agencies and aid groups to determine whether to officially declare a famine. The preliminary results, as of June 1 and seen by Reuters, reflect a …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -A global stockpile of Ebola vaccines can be used to protect frontline health workers in high-risk countries routinely, rather than just as an emergency measure during outbreaks, international vaccine group Gavi said on Thursday. A stockpile of half-a-million Ebola vaccine doses was established by Gavi and other global health partners …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – A police officer shot and injured a magistrate at a court in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Thursday, before being killed in a shootout with other officers, the judiciary said. Monica Kivuti, a magistrate at the Makadara Law Courts, was shot after rejecting the bond request for the police officer’s wife, chief registrar …
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By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya’s 2024/25 budget aims to tackle the country’s debt while protecting its fragile economic recovery, with growth estimated at 5.5% in 2024 and 2025, Finance Minister Njuguna Ndung’u said on Thursday. Presenting the budget in parliament, Ndung’u said the fiscal deficit was expected to be 3.3% of gross domestic product …
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(Fixes typo in headline) BAMAKO (Reuters) – At least 22 artisanal gold miners died in southern Mali on Saturday after the shaft they were working in collapsed, the general secretary of the miners’ confederation told Reuters on Thursday. The miners had entered the site in the commune of Kalana illicitly and dug tunnels which later …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations refugee agency on Thursday said the number of people forcibly displaced stood at a record 117.3 million as of the end of last year, warning that this figure could rise further without major global political changes. “These are refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, people being forced away by …
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NIAMEY (Reuters) -Unidentified assailants in Niger attacked soldiers guarding a major Niger-Benin oil pipeline on Wednesday, killing six soldiers, three security sources told Reuters on Thursday. The pipeline was not damaged, one source said. The attack against the patrol tasked with protecting the pipeline took place between the villages of Salkam and Tibiri, in Niger’s …
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BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Suspected Islamist rebels killed over 20 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province on Wednesday, two officials from the local administration said on Thursday. The attack took place on the village of Mayikengo in Lubero territory. Lubero administrator Alain Kiwewa said a toll of between 20 …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A second person has died in South Africa this week from the viral infection mpox, the health ministry said on Thursday, less than 24 hours after it announced the first death. The second person who died was a 38-year-old man. He was admitted to a hospital in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province with extensive …
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