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        <description><![CDATA[Polity African News offers free access to the latest Regional African news, with the aim of advancing Polity’s mission of deepening democracy through access to information.]]></description>
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            <title>New famine risk haunts war-torn Sudan with El Niño-driven drought</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Across Sudan, farmers who have struggled to harvest their crops since a civil war flared in 2023 are now battling a new enemy that could plunge the nation back into famine: the weather. El Niño, the climate pattern threatening parts of Africa with floods, is bringing higher temperatures and drought to Sudan, where pockets of famine have already emerged during more than three years of conflict, mainly in areas under siege.]]></description>
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            <title>Nigeria Ebola patient did not travel to Congo, Swiss government says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Ebola patient in Nigeria, the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja, did not travel to Democratic Republic of Congo, the Swiss government said in a statement to Reuters on Friday, contradicting accounts from Uganda. The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs had on Thursday told Reuters that the woman, who it identified as a Swiss national, was believed to have contracted Ebola while travelling with her husband in Uganda, where the government says there are no cases.]]></description>
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            <title>Rifts emerge in Libya as eastern parliament backs central bank chief's resignation</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new contest for control of the central bank in divided Libya could emerge after the eastern-based parliament said on Thursday it approved in principle the resignation of its governor, Naji Issa, and backed a member of the bank's board to replace him on an interim basis.  The House of Representatives's (HoR) spokesperson said parliament backed Fowzi Musbah Abukhzam, the board member, to temporarily fill the role at the central bank. ]]></description>
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            <title>WHO was not told Nigeria's Ebola patient travelled to Congo, as Uganda has said</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization was not told that Nigeria's Ebola patient had travelled to Congo, the WHO's representative in Nigeria said on Thursday, after Uganda said she had visited the country. Nigerian health authorities have said the country's first Ebola case in more than a decade involved a Ugandan woman who had recently arrived from a trip there. Uganda's health ministry said the woman had travelled to Congo, where the outbreak was first declared in mid-May and has since grown into the fastest-spreading on record. Pavel Ursu, the WHO representative, told an online press conference: "The information supplied to WHO did not include travel to another country (other than Uganda)." "The facts which we have received is that the patient returned to Abuja on October 3 being away from September 16 in Uganda," he added.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>IMF sees 1.3% contraction in Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan in 2026</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The IMF on Thursday forecast a sharp drop in economic output in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan this year due to the US-Israeli-led war against Iran, followed by a rebound to 6.6% growth in 2027, while warning that further energy production disruptions could worsen the outlook. The International Monetary Fund said the region's output was expected to contract by 1.3% as a result of the war's impact on energy production, shipping, tourism, trade and confidence. Economic output would increase sharply in 2027, but output in those economies would generally stay below pre-war projections. The war's impact had been substantial, but uneven, with oil-exporting economies directly affected by disruptions to energy production and shipping hit harder, and oil importers proving to be more resilient, the IMF said in its regional outlook released Thursday in Dubai.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Nigeria reports Ebola case as outbreak reaches West Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nigeria reported its first Ebola case in more than a decade on Tuesday, becoming the fourth African country and the most populous yet to be affected by an outbreak that health officials have described as the fastest-spreading on record. The Ebola species behind the outbreak kills about half of those infected and has no approved treatment or vaccine. Since the first cases were confirmed in Democratic Republic of Congo in May, the disease has killed 4 646 people. Health officials fear misinformation and funding shortfalls could fuel further spread within the region and across borders.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Nigeria reports first Ebola case in a decade in woman who arrived from Uganda</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nigeria reported its first Ebola case in about a decade on Tuesday after a foreign woman living in the capital tested positive for the viral infection after arriving from Uganda. A senior public health official told a local television station the woman is "originally from Uganda and so made a quick travel to Uganda." Uganda's health ministry said she had travelled to Democratic Republic of Congo, which is battling the world's second-largest Ebola outbreak on record with more than 9 000 cases and more than 4 000 deaths so far. Odianosen Ehiakhamen, the assistant director of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, told Arise TV the Ebola patient arrived in Nigeria on October 5 and started feeling unwell on October 7.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Ghana president: anybody committed to fight terrorism is welcome in West Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama said on Wednesday he was not concerned about Russian security assistance in the Sahel and that anyone committed to fighting terrorism is welcome in the region. “My opinion on this is that anybody who is committed to the fight against terrorism is welcome,” Mahama said at the Financial Times Africa Summit in London. On the deployment of a West African standby force to tackle insecurity, Mahama said the delay in deploying it was due to the lack of a UN resolution to help provide the finance needed. Mahama also said that Ghana is aiming to ban exports of raw materials by 2030 in order to increase value added from critical minerals, specifically citing lithium, manganese, bauxite and gold.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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