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Sudan’s paramilitaries have agreed to cooperate on humanitarian deliveries, following the Sudanese government’s decision to open a key border crossing with Chad, countries staging talks in Switzerland said Saturday.War has raged since April 2023 between the Sudanese army under the country’s de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led …

Sudan’s RSF to ‘cooperate’ on aid: Swiss talksSat, 17 Aug 2024 16:23:15 GMT Read More »

Sudan’s health minister on Saturday declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video released by his ministry.”We are declaring a cholera epidemic because of the weather conditions and because drinking water has been contaminated,” Haitham Ibrahim said in the video.He said the decision was taken in conjunction …

Sudan health minister declares cholera epidemicSat, 17 Aug 2024 16:09:21 GMT Read More »

Huge crowds have welcomed home controversial Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif to her native region of Tiaret southwest of Algiers after her triumphant return from Paris, an AFP correspondent said.Thousands of people turned out late Friday to greet Algeria’s gold-medallist, who was the centre of a gender controversy at the Olympics on her way to …

Algerian city welcomes home gold-winner KhelifSat, 17 Aug 2024 13:41:37 GMT Read More »

The World Health Organization on Friday urged manufacturers to ramp up production of mpox vaccines to rein in the spread of a more dangerous strain of the virus.The WHO on Wednesday declared the mpox surge a public health emergency of international concern — its highest alert level — with Clade 1b cases soaring in the …

WHO seeks mpox vaccine production surgeFri, 16 Aug 2024 21:28:36 GMT Read More »

High in the wintry mountains of Lesotho, Sharon Kadangwe from Malawi is learning to ski on a strip of snow that runs down a dry, brown slope at southern Africa’s only ski resort.  It’s “exciting and scary”, the 29-year-old said, climbing down from the ski lift. “It feels like the first time I learned how …

Skiing in Lesotho: an African adventure under pressureFri, 16 Aug 2024 20:16:38 GMT Read More »

Health authorities warned Friday that Europe must be ready for more cases of a deadly strain of mpox that has killed hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The World Health Organisation urged pharmaceutical firms to ramp up vaccine production and China said it would screen travellers for the disease after the first cases …

Europe warned to prepare for mpox as Pakistan reports first caseFri, 16 Aug 2024 19:23:27 GMT Read More »

Burundi on Friday freed journalist Floriane Irangabiye, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for allegedly “undermining the integrity of the national territory”, according to AFP journalists.Irangabiye, 36, was arrested in August 2022 while visiting her family in the East African nation and sentenced in January 2023, provoking international criticism.”I am very happy …

Burundi frees journalist sentenced to 10 years in jailFri, 16 Aug 2024 18:49:27 GMT Read More »

Sudanese paramilitary forces killed at least 80 people in a southeastern village, a medical source and witnesses said Friday, even as US-sponsored talks sought to end 16 months of devastating war.The assault occurred in Jalgini village in the state of Sennar on Thursday.”We received 55 dead and dozens of wounded at the hospital on Thursday, …

Sudan paramilitary attack kills 80: medical source, witnessesFri, 16 Aug 2024 14:57:46 GMT Read More »

Four more bodies have been recovered from the site of a massive garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital Kampala, bringing the death toll to 34, police said Friday.The collapse at the landfill in the northern district of Kiteezi at the weekend buried people, homes and livestock in mountains of fetid waste.An MP for the area …

Uganda garbage landslide death toll rises to 34Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:01:42 GMT Read More »

Pakistan said Friday it had confirmed a case of mpox, a day after Sweden recorded the first infection outside of Africa involving a new, more dangerous strain of the virus that has killed hundreds in the DR Congo.The mpox surge in Africa — which has also affected Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda — prompted the …

Pakistan logs first mpox case as fears grow of global spreadFri, 16 Aug 2024 09:28:47 GMT Read More »