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Some 1,100 people across Africa have died from mpox, the African Union’s health agency said Thursday, warning that the epidemic was “going out of control” without further action.In all, 42,000 cases have been recorded in Africa since January, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said, with cases reported for the first time …

1,100 mpox deaths recorded across Africa: CDCThu, 17 Oct 2024 15:14:06 GMT Read More »

Niger’s military authorities have banned rice, cereal and other food exports to all countries except fellow junta-led Burkina Faso and Mali to protect local supply, the government has said.With the Sahel nation experiencing high inflation on certain foods, the products banned for export besides rice include legumes such as cowpea as well as cereals like …

Niger bans grain exports to all bar Burkina, MaliThu, 17 Oct 2024 14:10:52 GMT Read More »

The impeachment trial of Kenya’s Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was thrown into disarray on Thursday after his lawyer said he had fallen ill and was in hospital.The news prompted Senate speaker Amason Kingi to suspend sittings until 5:00 pm (1400 GMT), the latest twist in a political drama that has transfixed the East African country.”The …

Kenya deputy president falls ill during impeachment trialThu, 17 Oct 2024 13:06:35 GMT Read More »

African anti-Western activist Kemi Seba has been released from French custody without any charges two days after his arrest, prosecutors said Thursday.Pan-African militant Seba, whose real name is Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, was detained Monday on suspicion of “foreign interference” in French affairs, prosecutors said.The activist, who has been sentenced in France several times …

France releases African activist Kemi Seba without chargesThu, 17 Oct 2024 11:10:10 GMT Read More »

Kenya’s upper house of parliament is set to vote Thursday on whether to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an unprecedented political saga that has gripped the nation.The Senate will give its verdict at the end of the second day of an impeachment trial against the embattled number two to President William Ruto.It …

Kenya Senate to vote on deputy president’s impeachmentThu, 17 Oct 2024 06:22:45 GMT Read More »

In a dilapidated building in Mozambique’s Indian Ocean city of Beira, a dozen young men work away at handcrafting humble coffins from wooden pallets discarded by cargo ships that dock at its huge port. Sawdust floats in the air and the sound of hammering fills the workshop where the only electric equipment — a makeshift saw …

In Mozambique’s Beira, shipping pallets repurposed as coffinsThu, 17 Oct 2024 05:41:57 GMT Read More »

More than one billion people are living in acute poverty across the globe, a UN Development Program report said Thursday, with children accounting for over half of those affected.The paper published with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) highlighted that poverty rates were three times higher in countries at war, as 2023 saw …

UN report says 1.1 billion people in acute povertyThu, 17 Oct 2024 04:07:54 GMT Read More »

Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world’s food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday.”Nearly 3 billion people and more than half of the world’s food production are now in areas where total water storage is projected to decline,” said the report by …

Water crisis threatening world food production: reportThu, 17 Oct 2024 00:14:22 GMT Read More »

Kenya’s Senate on Wednesday opened the impeachment trial of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua after the embattled politician lost yet another court bid to stop the process.In a historic move last week, the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, voted overwhelmingly to impeach Gachagua on 11 charges including corruption and abuse of office.The 59-year-old has …

Kenya Senate launches impeachment trial of deputy presidentWed, 16 Oct 2024 19:57:08 GMT Read More »

Ethiopia’s government on Wednesday launched a sale of shares in the historic telecoms operator Ethio Telecom, in what it called a “significant milestone” in modernising the country’s state-controlled economy.Addis Ababa last year said it planned to sell 45 percent of the publicly-owned provider, part of a push to open up the tightly controlled sector in …

Ethiopia launches sale of Ethio Telecom sharesWed, 16 Oct 2024 19:09:13 GMT Read More »