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WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global health emergency
The World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared…
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Montreal HIV/AIDS conference organizer warns of ‘catastrophe’ if delegates denied visas – Montreal | Globalnews.ca
Hundreds of delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America scheduled to attend a major AIDS conference in Montreal next month are…
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How Two Africans Overcame Bias To Build A Startup Worth Billions
A pair of twentysomethings from Uganda and Ghana thought there was a fortune to be made bringing transnational financial services…
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First African-born Miss France investigated over apartment gift from late Gabon president
Rolland was the first African-born winner of the Miss France pageant in 2000, when she was age 22. In 2003,…
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One killed in first major protest under Guinea junta
Gunfire rang out in Conakry overnight as people barricaded streets and set tyres alight in protest over a 20% increase…
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Egypt set for world’s sixth largest high-speed rail system with backing from Germany’s Siemens
A train passes through a station in Egypt. The project involving Siemens Mobility will use trains that can reach a…
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Bavarian Nordic shares surge on order for monkeypox vaccine amid Europe outbreaks; one case in the U.S
Shares of a Danish pharmaceutical group surged on Thursday after the company received an order for its vaccine to treat…
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Hopes fade for missing Burkina Faso miners as rescuers find no survivors in rescue chamber | CNN
Rescue workers have found no survivors in a rescue chamber deep inside a flooded zinc mine in Burkina Faso, the…
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Death toll in blast near school in Kano, Nigeria rises to nine amid allegations of a cover up | CNN
Nigeria CNN — The death toll in an explosion that rocked the city of Kano in northwest Nigeria has risen…
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Female student killed by mob at Nigeria school over blasphemy claims
The girl, Deborah Yakubu, was surrounded by fellow students and attacked on Thursday, a police statement said. The incident happened…
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