In recent months, Tshisekedi has chipped away at the influence of Kabila, with whom he formed an awkward power-sharing deal following a disputed 2018 election
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'A strong WTO is vital if we are to recover fully and rapidly from the devastation wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic,' the 66-year-old economist said in a statement.
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During the operations, Farouk Yahaya, commander of Operation said, one soldier was killed and four others wounded in an incident involving improvised explosive devices planted by Boko Haram militants.
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'Ethiopia's trespass into Sudanese land is an unfortunate and unacceptable escalation, which could have dangerous repercussions on security and stability in the region,' the Sudanese foreign ministry said in a statement
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The dead were six insurgents, four members of the security forces and one civilian, Lubumbashi Mayor told AFP
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Four people died of Ebola in neighbouring Guinea, the first resurgence of the disease in five years.
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A second round of tests is being carried out to confirm the latest Ebola diagnosis and health workers are working to trace and isolate the contacts of the cases, ANSS said
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'Exacerbated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ethiopia's structurally weak external balance sheet has deteriorated further, in our view,' S&P Global Ratings said
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Rare witness accounts are illuminating the toll of the shadowy conflict in Tigray, which is largely cut off from the world as fighting enters the fourth month in a region of 6 million people
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Leaders of the so-called G5 Sahel -- Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger -- gather in the Chadian capital N'Djamena on Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron attending via videolink
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The UK Supreme Court allowed a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Shell in English courts after years of oil spills in the Niger Delta contaminated land and groundwater
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The case was found in Butembo, a city of over 1 million people and the epicentre of a major outbreak of the disease that was declared over last June after nearly two years
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The UN said last month it had received "disturbing" reports of sexual violence in Tigray, including of individuals forced to rape members of their own family
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Eritrea and Ethiopia have both denied that Eritrean troops operated on Ethiopian territory
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African countries are due to receive 100 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine this year under an AU vaccine plan
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The cases mark a resurgence in the world's second-biggest outbreak, which was declared over last June, they said in the statement
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Reports of people already starving to death might just be a handful, but "after a month it will be in the thousands,'' warned Ethiopian Red Cross president Ato Abera Tola
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'The MINUSMA chief firmly condemns the attack and has ordered that all measures be taken to treat the wounded,' Salgado said
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'We call on Somalia's leaders to resume their dialogue urgently so that national elections can take place now,' State Department Spokesman Ned Price told reporters
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An economic crisis that contributed to Bashir's downfall has deepened. Inflation stood at 254% in December, and the Sudanese pound has slid rapidly on the parallel market
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