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US President Joe Biden Tests Positive For Covid

  • July 21, 2022

US President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is isolating at the White House. The 79-year-old, who is fully-vaccinated and has twice received booster jabs, is experiencing “very mild symptoms” and will continue to carry out all his duties, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. The president is taking the antiviral medicine Paxlovid, her […]

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Biden Announces US-Africa Summit For Mid-December

  • July 21, 2022

President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will bring together leaders from across the African continent for a major summit in Washington, DC this December to discuss pressing challenges from food security to climate change. “The summit will demonstrate the United States’ enduring commitment to Africa, and will underscore the importance of U.S.-Africa relations and increased […]

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Report: Africa Countries Partly To Blame For Food Insecurity

  • July 21, 2022

Economic and trade experts are calling on African countries to increase trade with each other and revive their agriculture sectors to overcome food insecurity and slow economic growth exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. The global food crisis has led to some 300 million Africans being food insecure. The crisis in Africa has multiple causes: […]

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Mali Gives UN Spokesperson 72 Hours To Leave Country

  • July 21, 2022

Mali’s military government has given Olivier Salgado, the spokesperson for the U.N. mission to Mali, 72 hours to leave the country. The order comes after he tweeted that the Malian government was informed of the arrival of 49 Ivorian soldiers as support for a U.N. contingent. The soldiers were arrested at Bamako’s airport on July […]