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BioNTech eyes Rwanda, Senegal for malaria, tuberculosis vaccine production

COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech said it was looking into building malaria and tuberculosis vaccine production sites in Rwanda and Senegal, narrowing its search for African locations. The future malaria and…

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Merkel says Germany will offer Africa up to 70 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses

Germany will make up to 70 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, more than doubling a previous pledge to donate 30…

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Libyan interim PM pushes back against parliament in speech

Libya's interim prime minister pushed back against parliament's threats to withdraw confidence from his unity government, saying in a speech its failure to approve his budget had set back the…

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Up to 48 missing after boat capsizes off coast of Senegal

Up to 48 people were missing on Friday after a boat carrying around 60 people capsized off the coast of northern Senegal, the Senegalese army said in a statement. Navy…

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Nigeria signs military cooperation agreement with Russia

Nigeria and Russia have signed a military cooperation deal providing a legal framework for the supply of equipment and the training of troops, the Nigerian embassy in Moscow said. President…

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Tunisia banned 50 officials, politicians from travel in past month – Amnesty International

Tunisia has stopped at least 50 officials, politicians and businessmen from travelling abroad since the president seized governing powers last month, Amnesty International said. "President Kais Saied has made widespread…

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Africa’s COVID-19 third wave stabilises as vaccine levels rise – WHO

A third wave of COVID-19 infections in Africa has stabilised and the continent’s slow vaccination drive has picked up pace, the World Health Organisation said . Some 248,000 new cases…

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Libya’s AGOCO warns of output stoppage

Libya's Arabian Gulf Oil Co (AGOCO) will stop operations unless it receives its budget allocation for 2020 and 2021, it said in a statement late on Thursday, without giving a…

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Trial suggests malaria sickness could be cut by 70%

A new approach to protecting young African children from malaria could reduce deaths and illness from the disease by 70%, a study suggests. Giving them vaccines before the worst season…

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Fossil of previously unknown four-legged whale found in Egypt

Scientists said they had discovered the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown amphibious four-legged whale species in Egypt that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea.…

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Algeria to allow more international flights

Algeria will increase the number of international flights it allows from Aug. 28, partly to help repatriate Algerians stuck abroad since air travel restrictions were imposed at the start of…

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Desperate Nigerians sell homes and land to free kidnapped children

TEGINA, Nigeria, Aug 24 (Reuters) - After armed men snatched seven of Abubakar Adam's 11 children in northwestern Nigeria, he sold his car and a parcel of land and cleaned…

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Algeria says cutting diplomatic ties with Morocco

ALGIERS, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Algeria is cutting diplomatic relations with Morocco, Foreign Minister Ramdane Lamamra said on Tuesday at a news conference, accusing its neighbour of "hostile actions". Morocco…

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Al Shabaab attacks Somali military base, captures central town

Al Shabaab fighters stormed a military base in the centre of Somalia on Tuesday and took over a nearby town, residents said. Residents of Amara in the Galmudug region said the attack…

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Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook, other platforms

Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook , Twitter and Whatsapp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security…

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Saudi Arabia pledges to provide support for Tunisia, Tunisian presidency says

Saudi Arabia pledged to provide assistance to Tunisia, which is suffering a political, economic and health crisis, the Tunisian presidency said on Sunday, the latest sign of support for President…

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Egypt to close Rafah crossing with Gaza from Monday

Egypt is to close the Rafah crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip until further notice on Monday, Egyptian security sources said. Hamas, the Palestinian faction that controls Gaza,…

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Algerian villagers grapples with wildfire aftermath

When Algeria's deadly wildfires tore through the forest around their village, brothers Khelaf and Lyazid Tazibt could only hustle their families out of the door and abandon the home they…

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Suicide attack fails in Libyan desert town of Zella

A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint into the Libyan town of Zella on Sunday, killing himself but causing no other casualties, a spokesman for the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA),…

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Former head of Tunisia’s Anti-Corruption Committee says he is under house arrest

TUNIS (Reuters) - The former head of Tunisia's Anti-Corruption Committee has been placed under house arrest, he said on Facebook on Friday, hours after security forces took control of the…

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Ebola, other outbreaks, atop COVID-19, risk straining West Africa health systems -WHO

The World Health Organisation warned that on top of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is facing new outbreaks of the viral haemorrhagic fevers Marburg and Ebola, risking huge strains on…

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Libya’s NOC says total oil sales reached $2.1 bln in July

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said its total oil revenues reached around $2.1 billion in July. The amount included about $2 billion from crude oil sales and $81 million from…

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Tunisia to impose compulsory quarantine on visitors who have not been fully vaccinated

Tunisia will from Aug. 25 require 10 days of quarantine for visitors who have not been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a move to help keep the pandemic under control as…

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Algeria accuses groups it links to Morocco, Israel of setting wildfires

Algeria blamed devastating wildfires this month on two groups it recently designated as terrorist organisations, adding that one of them was backed by Morocco and Israel. The president’s office said…

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Libya, Malta review facilitating visas granting and opening airspace

The Libya Observer reports that Libya and Malta discussed facilitating the granting of visas to Libyan citizens wishing to visit Malta, in addition to the importance of expediting the opening…

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Libya reopens borders with Tunisia

The Government of National Unity (GNU) in Libya has reopened all land and air crossings with Tunisia, while fully adhering to the precautionary measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic, it…

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Tunisia relaxes curfew as virus outbreak slows

Tunisia will relax its nightly curfew and cafes and restaurants will be allowed to remain open until 10 p.m, as part of an easing of anti-COVID restrictions, the Tunisian presidency…

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Dozens of migrants lost at sea off Mauritanian coast

Up to 47 people including three minors are missing and suspected to have died after their boat encountered engine trouble on the passage from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands,…

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Facebook, telcos to extend subsea cable to four countries

Facebook and a team of African and global telecoms companies will add four more countries to its world's largest subsea cable project, widening the build project in Africa earlier than…

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Emergency vaccine summit needed to help Africa, says UK’s ex-PM Brown

U.S., British and Italian leaders must hold an emergency summit before the U.N. General Assembly to end vaccine inequality and send more shots to Africa and other low-income nations, former…

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Zambia opposition leader Hichilema wins landslide in presidential election

Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema secured a stunning landslide victory over incumbent Edgar Lungu in Zambia's presidential election, results showed on Monday. The electoral commission said Hichilema got 2,810,777 votes…

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Fear and hope on Libya’s reopened highway

The green bus rumbling from Benghazi to Tripoli this week was the first to traverse the main highway between Libya's two biggest cities in years - the delayed result of…

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Morocco reinforces vaccine campaign with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations

Morocco received on Friday a shipment of 600,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as it expands its inoculation campaign to younger people amid a recent surge in new cases, said…

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North Africa Fires Spread to Libya and Tunisia

As unusually hot weather persists over parts of Northern Africa, new forest fires reportedly have broken out in Tunisia and Libya during the past 24 hours, in addition to many…

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Tunisia arrests 14 officials in phosphate corruption probe

Tunisia arrested 14 people for suspected corruption in the phosphate industry, the judiciary said, as the president moved to target graft in an important sector after seizing control of government…

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Algeria leader calls wildfires ‘disaster’, says 22 arsonists arrested

Algeria has arrested 22 people suspected of being behind the most devastating wildfires in the country's history that killed 65 people, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said, calling the fires a 'disaster'…

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Gaddafi’s son faces arrest over Russian mercenaries

Prosecutors in Libya have issued an arrest warrant for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, over suspected ties to Russian mercenaries. He is also…

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Zambia votes in presidential election seen too close to call

Zambians started voting on Thursday in a showdown between President Edgar Lungu and main opposition rival Hakainde Hichilema that looks too tight to call and comes amid mounting debt and…

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At least 65 killed in Algerian wildfires, Greece and Italy burn

Exhausted Greek firefighters battled blazes for a ninth day on Wednesday amid sweltering temperatures that also helped stoke wildfires in Algeria, where at least 65 people died, and in southern…

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Tunis hit record 49C in heat wave

TUNIS (Reuters) - A heat spike across northern Tunisia caused record temperatures on Tuesday including a sweltering 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit) in the capital Tunis, the Meteorological Institute…

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Wildfire rips through Algeria, killing 42 people including soldiers

Forest fires in Algeria killed 42 people on Tuesday, including 25 soldiers deployed to help put out the blaze, the government said, as thick clouds of smoke covered much of the mountainous…

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Egypt receives first batch of J&J COVID-19 vaccines

Egypt on Monday received its first shipment of one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, obtaining 261,600 doses in cooperation with the African Union, the health ministry said. The J&J vaccines…

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Algeria plans to sell stakes in state banks, firms

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune ordered his government to sell stakes in state companies and banks, the presidency said, part of long-awaited economic reforms in the oil-producing country. This is the…

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At least 51 killed in Mali village raids

At least 51 people were killed when Islamist militants raided three villages in central Mali near the border with Niger, a district administrator said on Monday. The towns of Ouatagouna,…

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Social media houseplant craze blamed for devastating succulent poaching across Africa

A houseplant craze on social media and Asian collectors are driving a devastating wave of illegal succulent poaching across Africa, threatening rare plant species with extinction in the wild. Botanists…

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Tunisia vaccinates more than half a million people in a day

More than half a million Tunisians received vaccinations on Sunday as part of a national campaign to control the outbreak of COVID-19 after the country received more than 6 million…

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Tunisian president’s feud with party elites drove him to seize reins of power

As he was driven to an urgently scheduled national security meeting with the president, Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi was unable to reach the phones of senior officers to discuss…

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U.N. condemns Zimbabwe child marriages as girl dies after giving birth

The United Nations has condemned the practise of child marriage in Zimbabwe following the death of a 14-year-old girl after she gave birth at a church shrine, an incident that…

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Libya implements strict three-day lockdown to curb spread of the coronavirus

Libya began a strict three-day lockdown to fight the rise in Covid-19 cases, as the country prepares to celebrate the Muslim New Year. This measure will be implemented in the…

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Chibok schoolgirl freed in Nigeria seven years after abduction

One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of…

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Tunisian activists say they will keep up pressure on president

TUNIS (Reuters) - Sitting on her rooftop in Tunis, political activist Fatma Jgham said she and her comrades backed the Tunisian president's seizure of governing powers but would maintain pressure…

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About 40 migrants feared dead after boat capsizes off Western Sahara

MADRID (Reuters) - About 40 migrants were feared dead after a boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands capsized, a Spanish non-governmental organisation, said…

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Senegalese doctors, cemetery workers battle COVID-19 surge

At Dalal Jamm hospital in Dakar, only the whooshing sound of a ventilator and beeps from a monitor indicated that the pregnant COVID-19 patient in the intensive care bed was…

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Tunisia places senior official from Islamist Ennahda party under house arrest

Tunisia's interior ministry has put under house arrest a senior official of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party which opposes the president's seizure of governing powers, one of his colleagues said…

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WHO says COVID-19 related deaths in Africa reach record peak

Coronavirus related deaths in Africa reached record peak in the week that ended on Aug. 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Over 6,400 deaths were recorded, a 2% rise…

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Libya heads for total lockdown because of coronavirus

The Libyan government announced tonight that it will impose a strict, three-day lockdown, starting on Saturday, to address the increase in Covid-19 cases. The lockdown will be implemented in central…

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South African study shows J&J vaccine protects against death

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is working well in South Africa, offering protection against severe disease and death, the head of a trial in the country said on Friday. The…

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