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West Africa bloc to deploy stabilizing force to Bissau after coup attempt

4 Feb 2022 4 Feb 2022

BISSAU (Reuters) -West Africa’s regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Thursday it will deploy troops to Guinea-Bissau to help stabilise the country following a failed coup early this week. The 15-nation regional bloc, which made the decision following a summit in Ghana’s capital Accra on Thursday, did not give …

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Nigerian oil production and storage vessel explodes

3 Feb 2022 3 Feb 2022

By Tife Owolabi WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) -An oil production and storage vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early on Wednesday with 10 crew members on board though it was unclear if there were any casualties or how much crude might have spilled into the sea. Nigeria’s Shebah Exploration & Production Company Ltd (SEPCOL) said …

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In world first, S.Africa’s Afrigen makes mRNA COVID vaccine using Moderna data

3 Feb 2022 3 Feb 2022

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South Africa’s Afrigen Biologics has used the publicly available sequence of Moderna Inc’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to make its own version of the shot, which could be tested in humans before the end of this year, Afrigen’s top executive said on Thursday. The vaccine candidate would be the first …

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Nigeria says it has recovered at least $750 million linked to corruption

3 Feb 2022 3 Feb 2022

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s financial crimes agency recovered at least $750 million in local and foreign currency linked to corruption and fraud last year, the minister of information said on Thursday. Africa’s biggest economy and energy producer, Nigeria has struggled for decades with endemic corruption among the political elite, who many Nigerians blame for widespread …

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Ethiopia’s holy town of Lalibela struggles to heal wounds of war

3 Feb 2022 3 Feb 2022

(Corrects date of when war broke out in paragraph 8) LALIBELA (Reuters) -The bedframes where sleepy pilgrims used to rest at the Cliff Edge Hotel lie twisted under the sky, blood spatters the hotel kitchen and a lone picture of a priest hangs on a crumbling wall. The 18-room hotel in the holy town of …

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Islamist militia frees about 20 prisoners in eastern Congo

3 Feb 2022 3 Feb 2022

By Erikas Mwisi Kambale BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Members of an Islamist militia freed about 20 prisoners during an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, a local chief and the head of a local humanitarian group said on Wednesday. The attack occurred Tuesday evening in the small town …

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Omicron sub-variant BA.2 harder to identify, found in 5 African nations -WHO

3 Feb 2022 3 Feb 2022

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron has been found in five African countries, a World Health Organization scientist said on Thursday, adding she was concerned about the development because samples of BA.2 may not be spotted as a form of Omicron. The BA.2 sub-variant has begun to replace Omicron’s more common “original” BA.1 …

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West Africa bloc chairman says Mali’s coup was ‘contagious’

3 Feb 2022 3 Feb 2022

By Cooper Inveen and Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) – The chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Thursday that a coup in Mali was “contagious” and had set a dangerous trend that led to subsequent coups in the region. Mali’s August 2020 coup was followed by a second military coup …

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Cheetah cubs threatened by pet trade, global warming in Somaliland

3 Feb 2022 3 Feb 2022

(Corrects 3rd paragraph of Dec. 10 story to add details of how the cheetah cubs were rescued) By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) – The two starving cheetah cubs squeak and tug at their string leashes in the white dust of Somaliland as a government vet pushes needles through the fluffy fur to drip-feed them liquid …

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One trans woman’s fight against a bill that would criminalise Ghana’s LGBT+ community

3 Feb 2022 3 Feb 2022

By Francis Kokoroko KUMASI, Ghana (Reuters) – In a dimly-lit room with racks of women’s clothing, Ghanaian artist and LGBT+ activist Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi flipped through photo self-portraits illustrating her transition to womanhood. Transitioning is not illegal in Ghana, but it will become so if a new law is passed, intended to tighten already strict …

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