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(Refiles to correct typo in the lead) By Alessandra Prentice and Christophe Van Der Perre PONGARA NATIONAL PARK, Gabon (Reuters) – Forest elephants are smaller than their cousins on the African savannah, but in Gabon their destructive raids of farmers’ fields are having an outsized impact on support for the government and its conservation agenda. …

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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – The owner of the bar in the South African coastal town of East London where 21 teenagers mysteriously died last month has been arrested, police in the Eastern Cape province said on Wednesday. Forensic teams are yet to reveal their conclusions on how the teens died, with a source close to …

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By Jennifer Rigby, Natalie Grover and Maggie Fick LONDON/KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) – After decades of work, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine last year – a historic milestone that promised to drive back a disease that kills a child every minute. In reality, efforts are falling well short of that, with a …

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By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Police are hunting for five attackers who burst into a bar in Soweto, South Africa and killed 15 customers in a hail of at least 137 bullets over the weekend, the police minister said on Monday. Nine other people were wounded in the raid in the early hours of Sunday …

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BARCELONA (Reuters) – A Spanish court has ruled that an autopsy be performed on the body of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos who died in a clinic in Barcelona on Friday at the age of 79, a court spokeswoman said on Monday. She said the court had granted the request of a family …

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By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) – Kenyan cleaner Noel Musanga survived Lebanon’s economic meltdown, waves of COVID-19 and Beirut’s port blast. But when her internet provider announced rates would double, she feared her last lifeline to family and work would snap. The freelance migrant worker already barely earned enough to survive. Now, the higher telecoms …

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