By Stephen Eisenhammer LUANDA (Reuters) – José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola for nearly four decades, winning a brutal civil war and overseeing an oil-fuelled boom that did little to alleviate poverty, died on Friday. He was 79 years old. The presidency said Dos Santos died at the Barcelona Teknon clinic, where he had …
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(Reuters) – South Africa’s Afrigen Biologics Limited said on Friday that it will collaborate with U.S. government researchers to develop mRNA vaccines and therapeutics. The agreement will enable the sharing of scientific expertise, technical skills and materials with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help Afrigen produce mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and other …
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BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Assailants killed at least nine patients in an attack on a clinic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo overnight, the army said on Friday, blaming the raid on a local militia allied with Islamist fighters. Insurgents believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s security forces on Thursday recaptured 27 inmates who fled from a prison in the capital in Abuja following an attack claimed by Islamic State, the correctional service said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s raid on the Kuje prison, which freed around 440 inmates, among them Islamist militants, raising fears that …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Two people in Ghana who later died tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive, but those results must be confirmed by a laboratory in Senegal for the cases to be considered confirmed, …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police blocked hundreds of demonstrators from reaching electoral commission offices on Thursday as protesters took to the streets against a referendum on a new constitution that would expand the president’s executive powers. President Kais Saied proposed the new constitution this month that would limit the role of parliament and boost his …
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ABUJA (Reuters) – A court in Kenya has frozen more than $40 million in accounts belonging to Africa-focused payments giant Flutterwave under the country’s anti-money laundering laws, court documents showed. Founded in 2016 in Nigeria, the San Francisco-headquartered firm, specialises in individual and consumer transfers, one of several fintech firms facilitating and capitalising on Africa’s …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s ex-president Blaise Compaore returned from exile on Thursday, almost eight years after he was toppled in an uprising, to take part in a meeting with interim president Paul-Henri Damiba and other former leaders. Compaore, 71, has returned to the West African country despite being convicted in absentia in April to …
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By Aaron Ross DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese President Macky Sall said on Thursday there is growing international support for developing gas resources in Africa as part of the continent’s energy transition. African leaders have bristled at pledges by Western countries to eliminate or reduce development financing in Africa for gas projects in the name of …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Nine people including five Sudanese citizens were killed and 43 people were injured in a road collision in southern Egypt early on Thursday, a senior health ministry official said. Of those injured, 40 were thought to be Sudanese, though identification procedures were ongoing, said health ministry undersecretary Ehab Hanafi. Witnesses told Reuters …
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