GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Fighters from the M23 rebel group advanced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday and were locked in heavy fighting with the army outside the region’s largest military base, security sources and the local park director said. After several days of fighting between the rebels and Congo’s …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall said on Wednesday that 11 newborn babies died in a fire at the neonatal section of a regional hospital in the town of Tivaouane, around 120 km (74.56 miles) east of the capital Dakar. “I have just learned with pain and consternation the death of 11 newborn babies …
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian President Kais Saied issued on Wednesday a decree to call voters to a referendum on a new constitution on July 25, the official gazette said, ignoring the opposition’s calls to reverse the controversial move. Saied last week named law professor Sadok Belaid to head an advisory committee that …
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By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt will position itself as an impartial arbiter while hosting this year’s COP27 U.N. climate summit, as it pushes other nations to act on climate pledges while promoting the interests of the developing world, a senior Egyptian official said. Egypt, where unauthorised public demonstrations are banned, would also welcome protests …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African disease experts do not see a need for mass vaccination campaigns globally against monkeypox or believe that cases will explode in the same way as COVID-19. As of Wednesday, South Africa has not recorded any confirmed or suspected of cases of monkeypox, a usually mild viral infection that is endemic in …
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By Katharine Houreld DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) -Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi’s twin granddaughters. Babies Ebla and Abdia lived only a day. Weakened by hunger, their mother gave birth to the twins a month early, eight weeks after their exhausted family walked into a …
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By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is considering using funds initially destined for development projects in Africa to support countries most exposed to the global food crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, EU officials and diplomats said. Millions of tonnes of grains are stuck in Ukraine, a crucial supplier to many …
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By Cooper Inveen and Francis Kokoroko ACCRA (Reuters) – In the open-air kitchen of a small research clinic in Ghana’s capital, Accra, pathologist Kafui Akakpo carefully carved a piece of cancerous breast tissue into a sample smaller than a matchbox. Hundreds of other samples bobbed around him in plastic jars of formaldehyde, but this one …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Seventy five people were missing after a crowded boat of migrants sank off Tunisia on Wednesday, the International Organization for Migration said and a security official said, as the numbers risking the dangerous crossing to Europe increase. The IOM said 24 people had been rescued from the boat, which departed from the …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – The dead bodies of four out of eight missing miners have been found at a zinc mine owned by Trevali Mining Corp in Burkina Faso which flooded on April 16, the government said on Wednesday. Rescue workers on May 17 found no survivors in a chamber in the mine, located around 570 …
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