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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and the Gates Foundation are set to announce a package of financial support for the nascent African Medicines Agency (AMA) in a bid to boost the continent’s drugs and vaccine production, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. The treaty establishing AMA came into force in November but …

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By Aaron Ross BISSAU (Reuters) – In October, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo told French radio that drug trafficking and corruption were over in Guinea-Bissau, a country that has struggled to shake off its reputation as a “narco state” of West Africa. Those words rang hollow a few months later. Fierce gunfire interrupted a cabinet meeting …

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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, said on Friday that the world was not yet at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as there would be more coronavirus variants. “We have seen the virus evolve, mutate … so we know there will be more variants, more variants of concern, …

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By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – China cannot dictate who Somaliland can have relations with as it was a sovereign nation and “born free”, the foreign minister of the breakaway Somali region said on Friday during a trip to Taiwan which has been condemned by Beijing. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has …

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By John Irish and David Lewis PARIS (Reuters) – France is considering withdrawing its troops from Mali, but adapting its strategy to prevent Islamist militancy spreading south may prove complex and contribute to uncertainty in the region. Relations between Paris and the junta in Bamako have deteriorated https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/thousands-take-streets-bamako-anti-french-protest-2022-02-04 since it announced it would abandon some …

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council expressed “serious concern about the unconstitutional change of government” in Burkina Faso in a statement more than two weeks after a military coup deposed President Roch Kabore. The 15-member council met behind closed doors on Tuesday to discuss the Jan. 24 coup. In a statement, agreed …

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