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(Corrects headline and lead to show that Ethiopia’s ambassador was cut off by the WHO board ‘chair’, not a WHO ‘official’) GENEVA (Reuters) -The chair of a World Health Organization body cut off Ethiopia’s envoy on Monday as he tried to deliver a speech criticising the global organisation’s leader and postponed a decision on a …

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By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Three demonstrators were killed on Monday when Sudanese security forces fired live rounds and teargas during protests against military rule that attracted tens of thousands of people across the country, medics said. Such protests, along with barricades throughout the capital and a general strike last week, have continued since the …

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By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Three demonstrators were killed on Monday when Sudanese security forces fired live rounds and teargas during protests against military rule that attracted tens of thousands of people across the country, medics said. Such protests, along with barricades throughout the capital and a general strike last week, have continued since the …

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BLANTYRE (Reuters) -Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has dissolved the country’s entire cabinet on charges of corruption against three serving ministers, he said in an address to the nation late on Monday. President Chakwera said that he had taken the decision to allow the three ministers and other public officers accused of corruption to account for …

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By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso’s army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and closed the country’s borders. The announcement cited the deterioration of the security situation and what the army described as Kabore’s inability to unite the West African nation …

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By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s government has suspended plans to remove its long-standing subsidy on petroleum products in July, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said on Monday, saying the timing was “problematic” amid rising inflation. With a presidential election set for early next year, removing the subsidy would have been a politically sensitive move. Nigeria …

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