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[United States Senate] WASHINGTON -- Yesterday, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the State Department to take swift action to protect women and infants from the deadly impact of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Africa. The Senators called on the Trump Administration to promptly use congressionally appropriated funds for voluntary family planning programming to distribute already purchased family planning

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Initial investigations suggest they died after ingesting pesticides used on nearby tomato farms.

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Absa Bank Limited, through its Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) division, and UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, today

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Its human rights office says restrictions on civil liberties are creating fear among opposition supporters, journalists, activists, and civil society groups.

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Africa’s richest man is preparing to rewrite the continent’s capital markets playbook. Aliko Dangote’s $20 billion petroleum refinery in Lagos has formally

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Russian paramilitaries from Africa Corps, which is supporting Mali in its fight against insurgents, killed eight civilians, including three children, in June airstrikes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Friday.

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Ghana is warning of a sharp drop in cocoa production next season, with output expected to fall by at least 16 percent.

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Oprah Winfrey will close the prestigious girls' school she founded in South Africa after the 2027 academic year, marking the end of nearly two decades of campus-based education.

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The prime minister has welcomed the news, saying it is a renewed vote of confidence in the country's economic reform programme.

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Prime Minister ​Sifi ​Ghrieb ⁠has visited the hospital where some of thoe injured ⁠have ​been taken.

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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surged past grim milestones, becoming the second-largest and fastest-growing epidemic of the

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Asia’s soccer body joined opposition to Gianni Infantino’s plan for private investors to buy stakes in the World Cup and said Friday FIFA must urgently review its management style.

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Officials estimate that more than 49,000 people crossed between Morocco and Ceuta in a 24-hour period.

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[Shabelle] Kampala -- Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Uganda's capital Kampala on Friday, where he held bilateral talks with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ahead of a summit expected to shape the future of the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).

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Nigerians urged Tyla to cancel her concert in Lagos over anti-migrant protests in South Africa.

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The estimated number of arrivals is more than 70% of the population of the city, which is about 83,600.

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Britain has recorded its busiest day of migrant crossings this year, with 752 people arriving in small boats across the English Channel in just 24 hours.

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Analysts say the U.S.-Iran war is at a critical point with the potential for further escalation, as the pattern of back-and-forth strikes resumes and hopes for a quick end to the five-month conflict fade

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A State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.

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[Vanguard] South African singer Tyla has removed Lagos from the schedule of her upcoming APop world tour following online backlash from some Nigerians over renewed reports of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.

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[FrontPageAfrica] SPRINGFIELD, Pa -- Former Liberian President George Weah used a keynote address to the diaspora wing of his party to recommit to a 2029 run for the presidency, telling supporters in Springfield, Pennsylvania, that the Boakai government had been "compromised by a cartel of drug traffickers." The claim arrives in the middle of a six-week-old cocaine scandal that has produced two record seizures, a string of arrests, a fired police intelligence chief, a viral video accusing the president's family of taking bribes, and a July