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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Russia condemned what it called a push to “politicise” its diamonds over the conflict in Ukraine and said attempts to question its compliance with the international diamond certification scheme were “totally unfounded” and “far-fetched”. The Kimberley Process, a coalition of governments, the diamond industry and civil society responsible for certifying diamonds as conflict-free, …

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TUNIS (Reuters) – The World Bank said on Wednesday it had approved a $130 million loan to Tunisia to finance vital soft wheat imports and provide emergency support to cover barley imports for dairy production. The loan comes as the North African country suffers a severe financial crisis that has sometimes caused wheat ships to …

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CONAKARY (Reuters) – Guinea has culled around 200,000 poultry at risk of being contaminated with the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, Minister of Agriculture Mamoudou Nagnalen Barry said on Wednesday. The West African country reported its first six outbreaks of bird flu on June 7 that killed a total of …

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By Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) – Life in Kinshasa was going well for Zawadi, a mother of two from Rwanda, until faraway fighting stoked Congolese anger against her country and videos of men with machetes prowling the city streets in search of Rwandans surfaced on social media. The trouble started in May, when the M23 …

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(Reuters) -South Africa has recorded a second case of monkeypox in a 32-year old male patient from Cape Town with no travel history, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The country reported its first monkeypox case last week, a case that was also not linked to travel. Monkeypox is a viral disease that causes flu-like …

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