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WHO has declared mpox a global health emergency. What happens next?
The spread of mpox through certain African countries led the Africa Centres for Disease Control and…
PTI
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Mysterious aircraft dropped bombs near a base for Russia's Wagner Group mercenaries fighting in Central African Republic
Wagner fighters have been blamed by the UN for numerous atrocities and human rights violations in t…
Jake Epstein
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Mercenaries from the Russia-linked Wagner group have been accused of raping moms in a maternity ward in the Central African Republic: report
Officials told the Daily Beast that three men stormed the maternity ward and raped two women who ha…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Good news for crypto adoption — Central African Republic becomes the second country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
The Central African Republic has become the second to legalise Bitcoin in the world. Bitcoin will …
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International Monetary Fund approves immediate debt relief for 25 countries
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has approved immediate debt service relief fo…
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Putin promises free grain to African allies after sending prices soaring with attacks on key Ukraine export facilities
Zimbabwe's president said the nation was grateful for Russia's free grain offer, though Zimbabwe is…
Jennifer Sor
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African countries have reported 6,883 Monkeypox cases, 173 deaths in 2022
According to data released by the Africa CDC, 173 deaths and a case fatality ratio of 2.5 per ce…
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African former rebels recruited as mercenaries by the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group have been abandoned in Ukraine, a report says
100 fighters from the Central African Republic were recruited by the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group to…
Alia Shoaib
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In 1871, the US almost acquired the Dominican Republic. President Ulysses S. Grant hoped that 'the entire colored population of the United States' would move to the island.
Concerned about the future of newly emancipated Black Americans, President Grant saw the Dominican …
DeArbea Walker
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3 Russian journalists shooting a documentary on Russian mercenaries were reportedly just killed in the Central African Republic
Moscow is also trying to gain influence in the milita-controlled areas as well, including the north…
Daniel Brown
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Russian mercenaries helping Putin fight his war in Ukraine appear to have also killed hundreds of African civilians, report says
Analysts say that the Wagner Group, founded by an oligarch close to Putin, deliberately targets civ…
Charles R. Davis
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Holland: We're Sending Troops Into The Central African Republic
He added that the number of French troops present in the poor landlocked nation, currently 600, wou…
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Ukraine's Western neighbors are preparing for millions of possible refugees if Russia attacks
Polish officials said they are planning for up to a million Ukrainian refugees. Meanwhile, Romania …
Erin Snodgrass
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The Bronx Zoo has finally apologized for putting a young African man on display in the Monkey House more than a century after his abuse
Benga went from the zoo to an orphanage in Brooklyn. He ended up in Virginia, where he worked in a …
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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A US Soldier And Iraq Veteran Died Trying To Topple An African Dictatorship Last Month
Njaga immediately took to the military. Sigga believes her brother's experience of growing up in Ga…
Armin Rosen
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South Africa Becomes The Third EM Central Bank To Unexpectedly Hike Rates This Week, And The Rand Is Plummeting
The rate hike comes on the heels of two other unexpected rate hikes by central banks in emerging ma…
Matthew Boesler
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Ukraine isn't the only country Russia is trying to topple
Russian officials see "gray zone" warfare around the world as leverage for their conventional war a…
Michael Peck
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Prigozhin was scrambling to salvage his business empire from Kremlin control in the days before his death, report says
Yevgeny Prigozhin flew to African countries to try and save his sprawling network days before his p…
Thibault Spirlet
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Prigozhin was spotted at an international summit in Russia, hundreds of miles from where he was last seen in his underwear in a Belarus field tent
Yevgeny Prigozhin was seen at a Russia-Africa summit hosted by Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, ov…
Natalie Musumeci
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More than 40% of the population in these countries comprises children below 14 years
Larger percentage of children in any population is due to high birth rates. As per UNFPA report, th…