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🇸🇳 Senegal: Health measures against mpox in place for Touba’s Magal pilgrimage

🇸🇳 Senegal: Health measures against mpox in place for Touba's Magal pilgrimage - Eastafricanreport.com: In preparation for the Magal pilgrimage in Touba on August 23, 2024, Senegalese authorities have implemented enhanced health measures to combat the spread of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox). With the expected arrival of millions of pilgrims, including many from abroad, around 6,000 healthcare pro...

🇳🇪 Sahel: Security Council must call out “Ukraine’s support for terrorism” – Burkina, Mali and Niger

🇳🇪 Sahel: Security Council must call out “Ukraine's support for terrorism” - Burkina, Mali and Niger - Eastafricanreport.com: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have petitioned the president of the UN Security Council to denounce what they call the Ukrainian government’s “open support for international terrorism” in the Sahel. A letter dated August 19 and signed by the envoys to the UN of the three Sahelian countries was r...

🇷🇺 Russia: Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk region ends hopes for peace talks

🇷🇺 Russia: Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk region ends hopes for peace talks - Eastafricanreport.com: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova gestures during Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024 Copyright © Eastafricanreport.com/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved. By Agencies ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE Ukraine...

🇮🇱 Antony Blinken in Egypt seeking progress on Gaza ceasefire deal

🇮🇱 Antony Blinken in Egypt seeking progress on Gaza ceasefire deal - Eastafricanreport.com: US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken was in Cairo on Tuesday where he met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and top diplomats meditating talks between Israel and Hamas. The discussions are part of the latest effort to broker a Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Pa...

🇬🇧 UK: Mother stabbed to death, two others critically injured in Manchester knife attack

🇬🇧 UK: Mother stabbed to death, two others critically injured in Manchester knife attack - Eastafricanreport.com: A 22-year-old man has been arrested after stabbing and killing his mother. The incident left his 17-year-old sister and brother both injured and currently in critical condition at the hospital. The incident occurred on Sunday at a home on Barnard Road in Gorton, near Longsight, according to Manchest...

Ethiopia 🇪🇹:Outrage in Ethiopia over sentence for man who r***d and killed 7-year-old

Ethiopia 🇪🇹:Outrage in Ethiopia over sentence for man who r***d and killed 7-year-old - Eastafricanreport.com: The sentencing of Getnet Baye to 25 years in prison for the brutal r**e and murder of seven-year-old Heaven Awot has sparked widespread anger in Ethiopia. Many believe the punishment is too lenient for the severity of the crime. Heaven was attacked by her mother’s landlord, Getnet, last August in ...

🇰🇪 Kenya to revive scrapped tax plans, risking unrest

🇰🇪 Kenya to revive scrapped tax plans, risking unrest - Eastafricanreport.com: A revised version of the controversial eco-levy tax will soon be tabled in Kenya’s Parliament. Speaking to Citizen TV Kenya, Treasury Secretary John Mbadi confirmed that “about 49 measures” were being considered as part of a tax amendment bill. The eco-levy tax aims to curb pollution and waste...

Police say 11 inmates killed in shootouts following breakout from prison in central Haiti

Police say 11 inmates killed in shootouts following breakout from prison in central Haiti - Eastafricanreport.com: Inmates broke out of a prison in the coastal town of Saint-Marc in central Haiti on Friday, police said, as authorities in the country struggle to quell widespread gang violence. In a news briefing in Port-au-Prince, a spokesman for Haiti’s National Police, Michel Ange Louis Jeune, said that eleve...

🇸🇸 South Sudan: Security law ‘automatically’ in force

🇸🇸 South Sudan: Security law 'automatically' in force - Eastafricanreport.com: South Sudan’s controversial security bill allowing people to be arrested without warrants has become law even though the president has not signed it, the parliament’s spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Oliver Mori told The Associated Press that the bill became law “automatically” under the c...

🇹🇬 Togo: the contract of the new coach Nibombé Daré made official

🇹🇬 Togo: the contract of the new coach Nibombé Daré made official - Eastafricanreport.com: Togo: the contract of the new coach Nibombé Daré made official The Togolese Football Federation (FTF) made official on Friday, August 16, 2024, the contract of the new coach of the Togo Hawks, Nibombé Daré, who succeeds the Portuguese technician, Paulo Duarte , whose departure was confirmed last...