JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The death toll from floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 49, the head of the province said on Wednesday. Parts of South Africa have been lashed by heavy rain and snow since the weekend, in a severe winter cold front that has disrupted transport and power networks. “The status …
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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) -Global vaccine group Gavi is seeking new donors for its work funding childhood immunisation in the world’s poorest countries, its chief executive told Reuters, as many traditional funders cut international aid budgets. Gavi is aiming to raise $9 billion at a summit in Brussels later this month for its work …
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By Amina Ismail, Nafisa Eltahir and Renee Maltezou CAIRO/ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Bahr el-Din Yakoub fled Sudan to seek sanctuary in Egypt after a missile ripped through his home in Khartoum and killed four of his friends. But economic hardship and a crackdown on refugees in Egypt pushed him onwards, first along dangerous desert smuggling routes into …
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By Siyanda Mthethwa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A severe cold front sweeping across South Africa since the weekend brought heavy snowfall which has led to road closures, power outages and a fatal road accident, officials said. Five people were killed in a road accident along the N2 highway due to the adverse weather, Eastern Cape transport department …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -The Sudanese army retreated from the Libya-Egypt-Sudan border triangle area, it said on Wednesday, a day after it accused forces loyal to eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar of an attack alongside the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Sudanese soldiers, largely from former rebel groups aligned with the army, had patrolled the area. Sudan’s …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -The Sudanese army accused forces under eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar of attacking border posts on Tuesday, the first time it has accused its northwestern neighbour of direct involvement in the country’s two-year war. The war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, whom the military also accused of involvement …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -Several areas south of Sudan’s capital Khartoum are at risk of famine, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday, with need on the ground outstripping resources amidst a food aid funding shortfall for war-ravaged Sudanese regions. “The level of hunger and destitution and desperation that was found (is) severe and confirmed the risk …
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By Sonia Rolley and David Lewis (Reuters) -The United States is promoting a deal that would require Rwanda to pull troops from eastern Congo before the two sides sign a peace agreement, sources say, a condition that is sure to rankle Kigali, which describes Congo-based armed groups as an existential threat. U.S. President Donald Trump’s …
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) -Ivory Coast former trade minister Jean-Louis Billon said he is seeking to represent the opposition PDCI party in October’s presidential election after former Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam was excluded from the final list of candidates last week. The question of who will carry the mantle of the main opposition party risks adding …
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(Reuters) -The mpox outbreak is still a public health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Monday, with the health body’s director-general issuing a revised set of temporary recommendations. The WHO first declared the emergency in August last year, when an outbreak of a new form of mpox spread from the badly-hit Democratic Republic of …
