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After delay and uncertainty, Senegal is set for presidential poll on 24th March, some 7.3 million Senegalese are registered to vote. In the alleyways of Dakar’s fabric market Wednesday 20th March, supporters of Ousmane Sonko's protege…

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $941 million lending boost to Kenya, with an immediate disbursement of $624.5 million, offering some relief to the East African country as it battles financial pressures. The…

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Rabat has concluded three loan contracts totalling 250 million euros, as well as two grant contracts worth 7 million euros with the German Development Bank. They concern financing relating to social protection, sustainable mobility, and…

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Fighting that has raged since April in Sudan between the army and paramilitaries has now displaced 7.1 million people, a UN spokesperson said, describing "the largest displacement crisis in the world." The war between the head of the…

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More than a million people have been displaced by flooding caused by heavy rains that have been affecting Somalia for several weeks, the Somali president announced. The Horn of Africa is facing torrential rains and floods linked to the…

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Sweden's SKF (SKFb.ST) is investing 50 million crowns ($4.9 million) in a magnetic bearings factory in Tangier in Morocco, the company said on Monday. "The new site will ramp up operations during the second quarter and once fully…

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More than 5,700 schools have been closed in Burkina Faso due to the security situation marked by jihadist attacks, depriving one million students of access to education, the NGO Save the Children warned. "Burkina has just crossed the…

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More than one million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received at least one dose of the first malaria vaccine. Data provided by the UN's World Health Organisation suggests that the pilot programme launched in April 2019 was…

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A campaign to vaccinate more than nine million children against polio was launched this week in four southern and eastern African countries after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi. The emergency immunization campaign began in Malawi,…

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has appealed for humanitarian assistance to be scaled up as Afghanistan continues to be hit hard by an ever-worsening drought that threatens the livelihoods of more than 7…