NEW DELHI — India's drugs regulator has ordered that the source and quality of an ingredient used to make cough syrups be checked and verified as a "top priority," in the wake of the deaths of at least 141 children globally.
LONDON — The World Health Organization is "very worried" about the spread of a severe form of mpox that has killed nearly 600 people, mainly children, in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, a senior official said.
London — According to a letter published on Thursday by Britain’s interior ministry, the government is set to pay Rwanda an additional 50 million pounds ($62.9 million) next year, on top of the 240 million already sent to the East African nation, as part of an asylum deal between the two nations.
LONDON — Up to $1 billion will be available to boost African vaccine manufacturing as part of a new scheme set up by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the global health organization said on Thursday.
LAGOS — The Dangote oil refinery in Nigeria is set to receive its first shipment of 1 million barrels of crude oil from Shell International Trading and Shipping Co. later on Friday, bringing the start of operations closer after years of delays.
CAIRO — Egypt's President and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set to secure six more years as the nation's leader in an election held in the shadow of the nearby war in the Gaza Strip.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, issued a health alert on Thursday to notify clinicians and health departments about a deadly type of the mpox virus spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
KAMPALA — A trial for an experimental HIV vaccine in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa has been stopped early after preliminary data suggested it would not be effective in preventing infection, according to the trial's chief investigator.
FREETOWN— Through a statement released on Thursday, Sierra Leone's information minister Chernor Bah said former president Ernest Bai Koroma has been summoned by police for questioning as part of the investigation into a failed coup attempt that happened on November 26.
ABUJA — A West African court on Thursday dismissed a case by Niger's military junta that sought to lift a raft of sanctions imposed by the regional ECOWAS bloc on the country after a July coup.
NAIROBI — A blast at a store that sells explosives wrecked buildings and caused massive damage to an industrial zone on the Seychelles' main island Mahe, officials said, prompting the president to declare a state of emergency on Thursday.
NAIROBI — A Kenyan judge on Thursday found Facebook's parent company Meta was not in contempt of court for failing to pay dozens of content moderators that a contractor laid off.
LONDON — Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday was battling to keep his party together, a day after unveiling a plan to disregard some human rights laws to send migrants to Rwanda, bringing back to the fore deep divisions in his party.
DUBAI — Speaking to Reuters, the head of the African Development Bank said African nations should be exempt from a plan by the European Union to impose a carbon tax on some imports.
LONDON — Britain published emergency legislation on Wednesday which it hopes will allow its Rwandan migrant deportation scheme to finally take off by bypassing domestic and international human rights laws that might block it.
BOSTON — U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Hamas had repeatedly raped women and mutilated their bodies during its October 7 assault on southern Israel, citing survivors and witnesses of the attacks.
LUSAKA — Zambian rescue workers have pulled out the first survivor of a December 1 landslide that inundated an open-pit copper mine and trapped at least 25 people who were working there without a permit, the disaster management unit said on Wednesday.
DUBAI — Conflict continues in Sudan after Saudi Arabia and U.S. brokered talks aimed at halting fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, faltered again.
KAMPALA — Ugandan officials on Wednesday denounced the United States' expansion of visa restrictions on leaders from the East African nation, accusing Washington of pushing an "LGBT agenda" in Africa.
JOHANNESBURG — Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday likened restrictions the Taliban has placed on women in Afghanistan to the treatment of Black people under apartheid in a lecture in South Africa organized by Nelson Mandela's foundation.
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