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            <title>Ebola case detected in northwestern province far from epicentre, official says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An Ebola case has been detected in a province in the northwestern corner of Democratic Republic of Congo, far from the epicentre of the country's most lethal outbreak on record, an official said on Friday. The case involves a man who died on Tuesday in the town of Gwaka, according to Jean-Rene Galekwa Vundawe, the acting governor of Sud-Ubangi province where the town is located. He travelled from South Kivu province in eastern Congo through Rwanda and Uganda before re-entering Congo and arriving in Sud-Ubangi, which borders Republic of Congo and Central African Republic. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, head of Congo's National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, confirmed on Friday that the man had tested positive for Ebola.]]></description>
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            <title>Nigeria suspends official visits to SA over xenophobic attacks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Nigerian National Assembly has officially suspended all official visits to South Africa and has initiated a complete boycott of South African-hosted or South African-organised legislative activities. This directive follows intensive consultations between the leadership of the country’s Senate and the House of Representatives and is a response to reports of xenophobic violence, intimidation and the targeted destruction of property belonging to Nigerians and other African nationals living in South Africa.]]></description>
            <author>Thabi  Shomolekae</author>
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            <title>Uganda holding last-ditch talks over king's succession to allow him to be buried</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Uganda's government is racing to help resolve a bitter royal succession dispute in the Tooro Kingdom after the death of monarch Oyo Nyimba aged 34, so he can be buried on Saturday, a spokesperson for the kingdom said on Friday.  King Oyo, who was crowned in 1995 at the age of 3, is due to be laid to rest in an official ceremony with thousands of mourners and dignitaries in attendance, but the funeral cannot proceed unless agreement is reached on who will succeed him to the throne. The dispute erupted on Wednesday after a succession committee consisting of members of the royal clan announced it had chosen Oyo's cousin, Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma, a news anchor and editor at state broadcaster UBC, sparking fury among the late king's immediate family, notably his mother and sister who said it should be his hitherto unknown son.]]></description>
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            <title>South Africa extradites six suspected members of Black Axe gang to US</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa will extradite to the US six Nigerian nationals suspected of being members of the Black Axe organised crime network involved in romance scams and cyberfraud, police said on Friday. The men are wanted by US authorities on charges including wire fraud and money laundering. They allegedly targeted more than 100 women in the US, defrauding them of more than R100-million through online romance scams, South Africa's elite Hawks police unit said in a statement, adding the victims included pensioners and businesspeople. Black Axe grew out of ​a student fraternity in the late ​1970s called the Neo Black Movement ⁠of Africa, and it has since ​evolved into a structured, violent criminal organisation ​often dealing in financial cybercrime. The six men were arrested in South Africa in 2021.]]></description>
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            <title>Two newly completed bridges, as part of LHWP II, set to open</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the construction of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) Phase II progresses, the newly completed Mabunyaneng and Khubelu bridges in the Mokhotlong district, in Lesotho, are set to be unveiled this week. This followed the completion of the 90-m-high Senqu bridge earlier this year.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <title>Kenya to get some $400m emergency World Bank funds within six weeks, source says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Kenya is expected to receive about $400-million in emergency financing from the World Bank within six weeks to help address risks including an Ebola outbreak in the region and El Niño-related disruptions, a source familiar with the matter said. The East African country applied for the World Bank's emergency financing facility — known as a Rapid Response Option — after the start of the Iran war in February sent crude oil prices sharply higher. However, risks facing the country have broadened beyond pressure from high energy prices on government finances, the source told Reuters. A spokesperson for the World Bank said the lender is supporting Kenya to finalise a framework to access rapid financing when "an eligible crisis or emergency occurs, including the conflict in the Middle East and El Niño," without providing more details.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with the UAE</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Algeria said on Thursday it had decided to sever diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates after what it described as a series of "provocative or hostile" actions by Abu Dhabi despite "repeated warnings". The foreign ministry said the UAE's actions had reached a point where they could no longer be considered acceptable or tolerable and that it had "exhausted all means of preserving bilateral relations." The UAE ambassador was summoned to the ministry, informed of the decision and given 48 hours to comply, the foreign ministry said. The UAE Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Relations between the two countries have come under growing strain in recent years, with Algerian media outlets sharply criticising the UAE and accusing it of seeking to sow regional discord.
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            <title>AfDB launches up to $5.1bn plan for African countries facing energy, fertiliser shocks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s board of directors has approved its new initiative, the Global Energy and Fertiliser Crisis Response Framework (GEFCRF), to ease the impact on African countries of the current global energy and fertiliser crisis. This crisis has been triggered by the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. The GEFCRF was based on the AfDB’s successful Covid-19 Response Facility and its African Emergency Food Production Facility. “This framework is about listening and responding to the urgent needs of African countries, helping them protect households and vulnerable populations, keep food, fertiliser and energy systems functioning, and preserve hard-won development gains while building greater resilience for the future,” explained AfDB Group acting VP for country and regional operations Abdul Kamara. “A crisis response must do more than cushion the shock. It must make countries stronger. That is exactly what this framework aims to achieve.”]]></description>
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