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🇬🇳 Guinea warns of power cuts after blast destroys fuel stocks
An explosion at an oil terminal in Guinea's capital Conakry, which killed 14 people and injured 190, could lead to electricity outages as the majority of the terminal's fuel tanks are out of service, the government said.
The government, which has launched an investigation to determine what caused the explosion, said 13 fuel tanks at the Kaloum depot were out of service as a result of the incident while five tanks were not affected.
"The government informs the population that due to the destroyed fuel stocks, the electricity supply may potentially be affected by outages," it said, adding that the fire was under control as of Monday evening.
#Guinea
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🇪🇬 Egypt's Sisi delivers victory speech after securing third term
During a televised speech on Monday after wining in elections, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi expressed his sincere appreciation and immense gratitude to every Egyptian who participated in the elections, while the state grapples with a multitude of challenges across all levels.
Al-Sisi also expressed his joy at the sight of Egyptians' lining up at polling stations, "which demonstrates that the will of the Egyptian people is affirmed with the voice of every Egyptian man and woman," he said.
Many world leaders and political parties and figures in Egypt have already congratulated Sisi on his win.
#Egypt
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🇷🇺 The Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergei Lavrov said that Russia's position regarding the Palestine-Israel conflict is the same as the position held by Arab nations, during the sixth session of the Arab-Russian Cooperation Forum being held in Marrakech, Morocco.
He also met Egypt's foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry on the forum's sidelines, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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🇮🇷🇶🇦 The Iranian foreign minister and the Qatari Prime Minister alongside the Qatari foreign minister met and discussed ways to reduce the escalation in the region and how they would implement a ceasefire in Gaza, as reported by the Qatari foreign ministry.
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Biden stops in tracks seeing car crash into motorcade
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67746992?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
US Secret Service staff rush the president into his car after the accident in Delaware.
End 'culture of hatred', says mother of boy shot in US
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67694134?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Glasgow-born Susan Swimm's 23-year-old son Rory was shot dead by a teenager in Utah in October.
🇳🇪 "Niger still does not rule out the possibility of a military invasion into the country, but is ready to repel it," said the appointed military prime minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, in an interview with RIA Novosti.
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Afghanistan: 'Tea is sometimes all I have to give my hungry baby'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67707715?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Some Afghans are giving their children sedatives as they struggle to feed them following huge aid cuts.
Serbian polls close in snap election called by Vucic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67742032?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
The president is hoping for a decisive victory but the opposition promises a tight race in Belgrade.
UK MP says family trapped in church complex amid sniper fire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67742052
Layla Moran tells the BBC her relatives are trapped in a church complex as Israeli forces operate nearby.
Three dead after historic Kairouan walls collapse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67740976?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
The stonemasons died while carrying out repairs on the Unesco World Heritage site.
The secret sauce for Taiwan's chip superstardom
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67213293
How an island that exported t-shirts and sugar turned into the world's largest silicon chip factory.
Alex Batty: British teen found in France returns to UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67724917
Alex Batty, who was missing for six years, has returned to the UK, Greater Manchester Police says.
🇰🇪 Hundreds of Kenyans trapped by raging floods, death toll reaches 170
Floods in Kenya have killed at least 170 and displaced more than 600,000 since the onset of heavy rains in November.
Tens of thousands of residents in the country's north have lost livestock, farmland, and homes.
In early December, president Ruto said 38 of Kenya’s 47 counties were affected by the floods.
Three regions are the worst hit, the Coast, Northern and Central Kenya. Kenya's military continues nationwide efforts to evacuate hundreds of people trapped by rising waters.
In affected counties like Mandera, food items are distributed to the displaced.
#Kenya
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🇨🇫🇬🇦 Central African states uphold Gabon's suspension after army coup
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) announced on Friday that it was maintaining the suspension of Gabon, a sanction imposed following the overthrow of President Ali Bongo Ondimba by the military last August.
ECCAS, which has recognized the "peaceful and inclusive nature" of the Gabonese transition, "has decided to maintain the decision to suspend Gabon's participation in Community activities until constitutional order is restored", it said in a communiqué.
Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Chad, Cameroon and Rwanda were represented at the summit.
Since taking power, General Oligui has met with all the leaders of ECCAS member countries, with the exception of Angolan President João Lourenço.
#CAR #Gabon
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🇺🇸🇨🇫 US PMC Bancroft arrived in CAR for talks with the government
Employees of the American PMC Bancroft are currently in the Central African capital, where they are preparing the establishment of the group with a view to offering training and investing in several sectors of CAR.
According to the RFI security source, Bancroft officials are beginning to look for a suitable location to "deploy equipment and particularly drones" near the capital Bangui. The Bancroft units are planned to be deployed in areas where armed groups are active.
The CAR government has so far declined to comment, citing the fact that the agreement has not yet been signed.
#USA #CAR
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⚡🇵🇸 The Head of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and their respective delegations have arrived in Egypt to participate in talks with Egyptian officials, unknown if Fatah will also participate.
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🇪🇬🇺🇳 The Egyptian Minister of Health and Population met with the representative of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Egypt to discuss both the health sector in Egypt and Palestinian refugees.
The Minister said that quality healthcare is being provided to the sick and injured refugees from Palestine and that they are being served without any discrimination against them.
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What Do Professional Racers Do During the Off-Season?
As the racing season comes to an end, fans are left wondering, “What do professional racers do during the off-season?” While it may seem like a long break to relax, there’s a lot more to it than that.
https://newslibre.com/auto/what-professional-racers-in-the-off-season/
Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon's trial begins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67745653?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
His case has drawn international uproar and is seen as a test of Hong Kong's judicial independence.
North Korea fires long-range missile after South Korea-US meeting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67745684?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Pyongyang had warned it would take measures after the US and South Korea updated their attack response.
🇰🇵 North Korea launched its second missile in two days.
South Korean military reports indicate North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan. The previous day, Japan's defense ministry noted a suspected ballistic missile from North Korea traveled about 400 km at a maximum height of 50 km, falling east of the Korean Peninsula, beyond Japan's exclusive economic zone.
The missile launched by North Korea on Monday night, following a typical trajectory, could have covered approximately 15,000 km, encompassing the entire territory of the United States, according to Kyodo, citing the deputy head of Japan's Ministry of Defense.
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Israel Gaza: Hostages shot by IDF put out 'SOS' sign written with leftover food
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67745092?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
The three hostages were mistakenly killed in Gaza on Friday by Israeli troops.
France calls for 'immediate and durable' ceasefire in Gaza
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67740979?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Foreign Minister Colonna said on a visit to Israel that too many civilians were being killed.
Queensland sees flooding after near record rainfall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67740978
Thousands of people in the north of the state have been urged to move to higher ground.
Notre-Dame Cathedral spire gets new rooster weathervane ahead of 2024 reopening
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67740519
The rooster - a French national symbol - replaces one damaged in the fire that ravaged the cathedral in 2019.
More than 60 migrants feared drowned off Libya, IOM says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67740331?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
An overcrowded boat is believed to have been swamped by high waves after leaving the city of Zuwara.
🇨🇩🇰🇪🇹🇿 DR Congo recalls envoys to Kenya and Tanzania over rebels' alliance launch in Nairobi
DR Congo recalled its ambassadors from Kenya and Tanzania for consultations after a new Congolese military alliance that includes rebels was launched in the Kenyan capital.
The envoy to Tanzania was recalled because Tanzania hosts the headquarters of the East African Community, which Congo also belongs to.
Earlier on Saturday, the Kenyan embassy's head of mission had been summoned to the foreign ministry in Kinshasa.
On Friday, Congolese politicians and groups including the M23 rebels, who have seized territory in eastern Congo, and Corneille Nangaa, a former Congo election commission chief, launched the Congo River Alliance.
#DRC #Kenya #Tanzania
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🇹🇩🇸🇩 Chad declares four Sudanese diplomats persona non grata
The Chad government on Sunday said it had declared four Sudanese diplomats persona non grata and ordered them to leave within 72 hours following what it called "grave statements" by Sudanese officials accusing it of interfering in the conflict in Sudan.
The diplomats are the first counsellor of the embassy, the defence attache and two consuls.
The decision came after "grave statements that lack any basis," made by top Sudanese officer, General Yassir al-Atta, and repeated by Sudan's foreign minister on local television, the statement, signed by Chad's government spokesman, said.
"The recurrence of such statements by Sudanese authorities with regards to Chad and its government is simply not acceptable, hostile, and masks a hidden agenda," the statement said.
#Chad #Sudan
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🇨🇮 Ivory Coast court suspends main opposition party's elective congress
A court in Ivory Coast has suspended and ordered a postponement of an elective congress of the country's main opposition party in which the former chief executive of Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thiam, is among the contenders for the presidency.
The court of first instance in the capital Abidjan ordered the suspension of the congress, which had been planned for Saturday to elect a new Democratic Party leader before a presidential election in 2025.
The ruling followed an urgent request from two senior party members alleging opacity and irregularities in the organisation of the congress.
The complaints were not directly aimed at Thiam, but the plaintiffs said that a day before the congress, they did not have the names of the shortlisted candidates for the presidency or the names of party members who will be voting.
#IvoryCoast
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