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By Andrew MacAskill KIGALI (Reuters) – The hostel in Rwanda where Britain plans to send migrants under its controversial asylum-seeker deportation policy is preparing to house children, its manager said, with the prospect of youngsters being sent there with their parents. Under an agreement struck in April, Britain will send tens of thousands of migrants …

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(Reuters) – China’s Sinovac Biotech said on Saturday that South Africa’s health products regulator has granted conditional registration to its coronavirus vaccine CoronaVac for people aged 18 and above. (Reporting by Akanksha Khushi in Bengaluru; Editing by Sam Holmes)

LUANDA (Reuters) -Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa’s second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, is in intensive care at a clinic in Barcelona, Portuguese news agency Lusa reported, citing a source close to him. The Angolan government did not respond to a request for comment on Friday, but on …

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By Helen Reid JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Consumers should think twice when buying diamonds that could be funding Russia’s war, a Ukrainian diplomat said on Friday as a fraught international conflict diamond forum in Botswana came to an inconclusive end. The Kimberley Process (KP), a coalition of governments, the diamond industry and civil society representatives responsible for …

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BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Friday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was in self-isolation. Abdikarim Ali Kaar, Mohamud’s spokesperson, said the president had returned to Somalia on Friday from a trip to the United Arab Emirates. The official Somali president’s Twitter account shows a video of him …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – There is a “real risk” of multiple famines this year, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said on Friday and urged ministers meeting on food security to take practical steps to stabilize food markets and reduce commodity price volatility. “We face an unprecedented global hunger crisis,” Guterres told the meeting …

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TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s interior ministry said on Friday it had information about serious threats to the life of the president and that it had foiled what it called a separate attack near a synagogue, adding to concerns over a mounting political crisis. The ministry said both internal and external elements were involved in plans targeting …

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