RABAT (Reuters) – The Moroccan police said on Friday it had seized 1.37 tons of cocaine in Casablanca. The drug was concealed in a cargo of imported frozen fish found at a distribution company in Morocco’s largest city, it said in a statement. Preliminary findings suggest the cargo was imported from a Latin American country …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said she would visit Egypt to attend an international conference on Saturday that will discuss ways of tackling humanitarian and safety issues stemming from the Israel-Hamas conflict. “I plan to visit Egypt to take part in the Cairo Peace Summit, which will be hosted by the Egyptian government …
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(This Oct. 19 story has been corrected to say H7 genotype, not H5N1, in paragraph 1 and also to clarify that the WOAH communication was on Thursday, not Tuesday, in the same paragraph) PARIS (Reuters) – Mozambique has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H7 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, among poultry in the …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping pledged on Thursday for his country to increase investments in Nigeria’s power generation sector and its digital economy, the Nigerian vice president’s office said in the wake of a Belt And Road Initiative forum in Beijing. Nigeria’s National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) -Twenty truckloads of aid due to be transported over the Egyptian border are unlikely to raise spirits in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, where Palestinians are squarely focused on surviving Israeli air strikes and acute food and medicine shortages. After intensive diplomacy, Egypt agreed to reopen its border crossing with Gaza …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s health ministry has declared a dengue fever epidemic amid the deadliest outbreak in years in which more than 200 people have died and new cases are rising sharply. There have been 50,478 suspected cases and 214 deaths of the mosquito-borne illness this year, the ministry said in a statement on …
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By Promit Mukherjee JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa has secured $676 million in grants from rich nations for a transition to green energy, more than double what they initially promised but still only a fraction of the total package, the rest of which it will have to repay with interest. Rudi Dicks, head of project …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – President Yoweri Museveni vowed on Wednesday that Ugandan forces would track down those responsible for the deaths of a safari guide and two foreign tourists who were honeymooning in a national park. Ugandan authorities have accused the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of killing the couple, a South African and a British national, …
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By Bhargav Acharya and Tannur Anders JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Inflation in South Africa rose sharply in September but stayed within the central bank’s target range, fuelling analysts’ expectations that interest rates would be left unchanged next month. Statistics South Africa said headline consumer inflation rose to 5.4% year-on-year in September from 4.8% in August, with …
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By Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) – Caledonia Mining Corp is exploring options to raise $250 million needed to develop its Bilboes project into what could be Zimbabwe’s biggest gold mine. The company, which also owns the Blanket gold mine in Zimbabwe, could raise the money via a combination of debt, its own cash reserves and …
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