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Xi Jinping. File Photo: Collected

Africa

China's Xi visits Morocco, meets with crown prince

The Crown Prince and Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch met Xi at the airport, where Xi and Hassan had a "cordial conversation", China's state broadcaster CCTV said

The Adani Group headquarters in Ahmedabad, India. File photo: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

Africa

Kenya drops over $2.5 billion of Adani deals after US indictment

A pair of male elephants is seen in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, April 25, 2018. Picture taken April 25, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

Science

Researchers document huge drop in African elephants in a half century

Families displaced by RSF advances in Sudan's El Gezira and Sennar states shelter at the Omar ibn al-Khattab displacement site, Kassala state, Sudan, July 10, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/ Faiz Abubakr/File Photo

Africa

UN chief condemns Sudan's RSF, Britain to push for Security Council action

The hands of a patient with skin rashes caused by the mpox virus are pictured at the treatment center of Vijana Hospital in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo August 30, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Health

Mpox cases on African continent show 500% increase year-on-year

Sudanese people, who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, cross the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad August 4, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File photo

Africa

Sudanese need protection, but conditions not right for UN force: Guterres

Blaise Diagne International Airport in Thies, Senegal, March 28, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File photo

Africa

NYC-bound Boeing 767 makes emergency stop during take-off in Senegal

The hands of a patient with skin rashes caused by the mpox virus are pictured at the treatment center of Vijana Hospital in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo August 30, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Health

WHO approves Bavarian Nordic's mpox vaccine for adolescents

Senegal's newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye addresses the audience after he took the oath of office as president during the inauguration ceremony in Dakar, Senegal April 2, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

Africa

Senegal unveils 25-year economic and social development plan

An undated colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (pink) found within an infected cell (yellow), cultured in the laboratory, captured at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Photo: NIAID/Handout via REUTERS

Health

Zimbabwe reports first two mpox cases of unspecified variant

Members of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra march in the streets to demonstrate against illegal mining locally known as 'galamsey', in Accra, Ghana. October 11, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Africa

Hundreds march against Ghana's damaging informal gold mining boom

Flooding in the desert town of Merzouga. Extratropical storms may change weather conditions in the region in the coming months and years. Photo: AP/UNB

Climate Change

Rare image shows first floods in Sahara in 50 years

A prospector sorts gold particles found at gold mine in Walungu territory of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 10, 2014. Photo: REUTERS/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

Africa

US rules on conflict minerals have not reduced violence in Congo: watchdog