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At least three people have died of Ebola in Guinea, with five others testing positive for the virus, health officials say. They fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a burial. Between 2013 and 2016 more than…
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South Africa says it will on Monday reopen 20 of its land border crossings that were shut last month to try to stop the spread of Covid-19 infections. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Saturday. South Africa has been hit…
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Police in South Africa have arrested 15 people for alleged corruption relating to the funeral of the former president, Nelson Mandela, in 2013. Those arrested include the health minister of Eastern Cape province, Sindiswa Gomba, a number…
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Only five days after it began, Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial has concluded. As was widely predicted, the final verdict was that the former president was not guilty of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol last month. There…
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Myanmar military has taken control of the country after staging a bloodless coup. The country’s senior politicians including Aung San Suu Kyi had also been arrested by the army during predawn raids on Monday. Military-owned Myawaddy…
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The EU says UK-Swedish drug firm AstraZeneca will now supply an additional nine million COVID-19 vaccine doses by March, after days of criticism of the bloc’s vaccination programme. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was a…
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Nine people died in an attack at a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the Reuters news agency reports quoting the police spokesperson. The security forces ended the assault early Monday after a gun battle with Islamist militants,…
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Several protestors on Sunday poured out onto the streets in Venezuela to demand the release Alex Saab, a special envoy for the South American country. The protestors, numbering over 200,000 gathered in different cities of the country…
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US President Joe Biden has begun to undo some of Donald Trump's key policies, hours after being sworn in. In his initial acts as the 46th US president, he signed 15 executive orders - the first to boost the federal response to the…
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China is rushing to build a massive quarantine camp that can house more than 4,000 people, after an outbreak of Covid-19 this month that has left tens of millions of people under strict lockdown. The quarantine camp is located on the…
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