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Uganda running out of safe food options https://bit.ly/47bKM0x #MonitorUpdates
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Shoppers primed to face Christmas meat shortage https://bit.ly/47azeKX #MonitorUpdates
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🇨🇩 DR Congo archbishop urges restraint after election chaos
The Archbishop of Kinshasa on Sunday called for restraint in his Christmas Mass Sunday evening, following what he described as the "gigantic organised disorder" of last week's general election.
"With enthusiasm, with determination, many of us came out to democratically express our preferences," Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo told.
"But alas, what should have been a great celebration of democratic values quickly turned into frustration for many," he added.
#DRC
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🇿🇲 Zambia facing a double epidemic of cholera and anthrax
Zambia, already facing its worst anthrax epidemic in more than a decade, has recorded new deaths caused by cholera, health authorities reported.
The number of victims of cholera rose to 64 for the entire country since the start of the year.
Acute diarrheal infection caused by the absorption of food or water contaminated by bacteria, cholera is on the rise on the continent, according to the World Health Organization.
Health Minister said the government was distributing chlorine to purify water in areas affected by the epidemic and called on the population to respect strict hygiene measures.
Besides Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe have also recorded cases anthrax this year, with a total of 20 deaths and some 1,100 suspected cases.
#Zambia
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🇸🇳 Senegalese navy seizes 690 kg worth of cocaine
The Senegalese navy has seized 690 kg of cocaine being transported to Europe in an ultra-fast go-fast boat and arrested the five Spaniards on board, the army announced.
The deep-sea patrol boat intercepted the boat on Friday 220 km off the coast of Senegal.
The patrol boat had to use verbal warnings and later warning shots to stop the boat, which had released its cargo before the intervention; 690 kg of cocaine were recovered, the statement said.
Long considered a simple transit zone for drugs produced in Latin America en route to Europe, West and Central Africa has also become a region of heavy consumption, according to the United Nations.
#Senegal
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🇹🇩 Chad votes yes to new constitution
Chadians have voted in favour of a new constitution that critics say could help cement the power of junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby.
The referendum held earlier this month was approved by 86% of voters, the government commission that organised it said on Sunday. Voter turnout was about 64%, it said.
Chad's military authorities have called the vote a vital stepping-stone to elections next year - a long-promised return to democratic rule after they seized power in 2021 when former president Idriss Deby was killed on the battlefield during a conflict with insurgents.
The new constitution will maintain a unitary state, which Chad has had since independence, while some of its opponents had called for the creation of a federal state, saying it would help spur development.
#Chad
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🇹🇿 World Bank approves new Tanzania loans worth $1.14 bln
The World Bank has approved two separate loans worth about $1.14 billion combined to Tanzania to support its private sector, develop its commercial capital and fight effects of climate change, the bank said.
The first tranche of financing worth $750 million - called Development Policy Financing - is meant to finance reforms such as making business licensing faster and also broaden access to cheap credit to accelerate private sector growth, the bank said.
The second lot of $385 million will go towards financing infrastructure and building institutions that will help Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam to cope with the effects of climate change, the bank said.
"Tanzania remains very vulnerable to climate change and is limited in its preparedness to adapt and respond to the adverse impacts," World Bank country director for Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania said.
#Tanzania
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🇬🇳 Guinea fuel supplies improving since oil storage blast
Supplies of fuel to gas stations in Guinea is expected to improve significantly following an oil terminal blast, the government said, as it introduced new top-up limits for vehicles from Saturday.
The December 18 blast killed 23 people and damaged most of the fuel tanks at the West African nation's main oil terminal that handles its fuel imports, leading to widespread shortages.
"The government is pleased to announce to the population that, thanks to diplomatic efforts with neighbouring countries, fuel supply in gas stations will see a marked improvement," it said.
The news could reassure global markets, which saw Chinese alumina futures surge to record highs due to concerns that fuel shortages in Guinea, the world's third-largest bauxite producer, could curb its exports of the alumina feed material.
#Guinea
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🇨🇩 DR Congo's opposition leader says election should be annulled as opposition plans protest
Moise Katumbi, one of the main opposition candidates in Democratic Republic of Congo's presidential election has added his voice to calls for the Dec. 20 vote to be annulled because of "massive fraud".
Katumbi's campaign added in the statement that the head of Congo's national election commission should resign because the commission had participated in a planned "electoral fraud."
"In this face of this unacceptable situation, we are calling for the immediate annulment of this chaotic election tainted by massive fraud," the statement said.
#DRC
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🇸🇳 Exiled Senegalese oppositionist Karim Wade to vie for presidency
Exiled Senegalese opposition figure Karim Wade, an ex-minister and the son of former head of state Abdoulaye Wade, said he had filed papers to contest presidential elections in February.
Wade's Democratic Party had designated him as its candidate but doubts had remained due to his sentencing to a jail term for corruption in 2015, three years after current President Macky Sall took office.
Sall pardoned him in 2016 and Wade has been living in exile in Qatar.
"I am happy to announce that my candidacy for the presidential election on February 25 was submitted" overnight, Wade said.
Wade's criminal record had prevented him from standing in the 2019 election which saw Sall re-elected.
But in August parliament voted to restore the eligibility of Wade.
#Senegal
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⚡🇹🇼🇨🇳 Allitle underreported, but Taiwanese counter intelligence arrested a Taiwanese pilot who attempted to defect to China using a US-export Chinook helicopter, the Taiwanese pilot was offered 15 million US dollars, and he was supposed to fly it to a Chinese naval carrier when China was "running Excerises" near the Island.
Note - this occured in April, but news was only published in December of this year.
@themediterraneanman
📄 Hamas and other resistance factions are rejecting all current ceasefire and prisoner exchange deals, as they stress that they won't accept a temporary halt to this war.
The demand is to end this war, and that to be followed by the prisoner swap. This was rejected by the Israeli government who is adamant at achieving further damage to Hamas and increase pressure on Gaza to pay less for the hostages.
— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 BREAKING: The world's largest shipping company, Maersk, announces it will resume shipping in the Red Sea after the start of the US-led naval coalition
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Cologne Cathedral: Extra checks at German landmark after attack warning
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67816617?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
German police are deployed near the cathedral, amid fears of attacks in several European countries.
Slovakia arrest over threat to copy Prague attack
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67815454?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
The suspect said he wanted to repeat Thursday's shooting in neighbouring Czech Republic, police say.
Initial DR Congo results trickle in after chaotic elections https://bit.ly/3TxNr1r #MonitorUpdates
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‘Most Ugandans live for 18 years after retirement’ https://bit.ly/3NE9Oyy #MonitorUpdates
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🇲🇱 Malian Armed Forces retook previous UN base in Aguelhok
The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) announced on Wednesday that they took position “without incident” in the town of Aguelhok, located in northern Mali.
The recapture of the town of Aguelock, after that of Anefis, signifies the return of the Malian army to a locality that it had lost eleven years ago.
At the same time, the Tuareg separatists declared having established a “total blockade” on the axes going from the Algerian border to the cities of Ménaka, Kidal, Gao, Timbuktu and Taoudeni. However, the is no verification to this information and, most likely, is a propaganda move to cover their losses.
#Mali
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🇧🇯 Benin wants to “rapidly” normalize ties with coup-hit neighbours
Benin wishes to re-establish ties with its core business partners in western Africa which have undergone coups.
President Patrice Talon revealed this in Porto-Novo during his state of the nation address in Parliament.
"We believe in the peaceful coexistence of nations and peoples. It is this same logic that prompts me to express today our desire to see a rapid restoration of relations between Benin and countries where coups d'état have been used to undermine democratic processes."
Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso were listed among Benin’s 30 core business partners in the 2022 foreign trade report by the national institute of statistics and demographics.
Talon said his country's never cut ties with its neighbors.
Patrice Talon however insisted that military leaders had to cooperate and disclose their intentions and their expectations regarding the international community.
#Benin
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🇹🇳 Tunisians voted in local council elections
Voting for Tunisia's local council elections began on Sunday, the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) said.
More than 9 million voters are expected to cast their ballots in the elections to choose their local representatives, according to data from the Supreme Electoral Council.
A total of 7,205 candidates are running for the elections, with 279 local councils expected to be elected.
Preliminary results of the parliamentary elections will be announced on Wednesday, the ISIE said.
#Tunisia
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🇩🇿🇲🇱 Tensions between Algeria and Mali, ambassadors summoned
The Malian ambassador to Algiers was summoned to the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday to discuss "the latest developments in the situation in the sub-Saharan country", the day after Bamako summoned the Algerian ambassador to Mali.
The head of Algerian diplomacy, Ahmed Attaf, reminded the Malian ambassador "that all Algeria's contributions to promoting peace, security and stability in Mali have always been based on three cardinal principles from which it has never deviated", according to a press release.
On Wednesday, the Algerian ambassador in Bamako was summoned by the Malian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Algiers was accused of holding meetings with Tuareg separatists without involving the Malian authorities.
Bamako summoned the Algerian ambassador "to voice a strong protest" from Mali "following the recent unfriendly acts by the Algerian authorities, under the guise of the peace process".
#Algeria #Mali
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🇨🇬 Congo reaffirms commitment to OPEC, oil minister says
Congo on Saturday reaffirmed its commitment to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), days after neighbor Angola decided to leave the organization.
"The Republic of Congo reaffirms its steadfast commitment to the strategic policy defined by the Secretary-General of OPEC and OPEC+," Congo's hydrocarbons minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua said.
"Congo is committed to continuing close and constructive collaboration with all member countries."
Congo, which became a full member of OPEC in 2018, has been set a target of 277,000 barrels per day (bpd) for 2024 by the Saudi-led oil producer group.
#Congo
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🇰🇪 Kenyan ex-minister arrested over graft allegations
A former Kenyan tourism minister has been arrested and taken to court over corruption allegations.
Najib Balala, and other ex-officials, are accused of inflating the cost of a project to build a tourism college.
In court, he denied the charge of abuse of office relating to an irregular payment worth $21m, the Nation newspaper reports.
He is the first former minister to be arrested since William Ruto was elected president last year.
Balala served as tourism minister for 12 years in three successive governments, stepping down in 2022 as President Uhuru Kenyatta left office.
#Kenya
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🇧🇮 20 dead in rebel attack in Burundi
Twenty people, including 19 civilians, were killed in western Burundi, the government announced on Saturday, in an attack claimed by the RED-Tabara rebel group, which in turn claimed to have killed ten members of the security forces. Nine others were injured and hospitalized, the government added, condemning a "despicable and barbaric terrorist act".
The attack was carried out in the locality of Vugizo, some twenty kilometers from the economic capital Bujumbura and bordering the DR Congo, the country where the rear base of the RED-Tabara movement (Resistance for the Rule of Law in Burundi), the main armed group fighting the regime led by Evariste Ndayishimiye, is located.
Two military and security sources told AFP that the attack had targeted a "military position".
#Burundi
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The British Museum celebrates Christmas by posing with the Rosetta Stone, an Egyptian artefact - that I REALLY want back, the British are Gypsies when it comes to historical artefacts.
But it seems it is not only my concerns - our Greek brothers in the replies are numerous and are shit talking the British for stealing alot of Greek artefacts.
🇬🇷🤝🇪🇬 One struggle (in hating the British Museum)
— 🇻🇦Pope Francis: 'The military-industrial complex and weapons manufacturers are pulling the strings of all wars'
@Middle_East_Spectator
⚡️🇪🇬🇵🇸 Egyptian authorities have presented a mechanism for the de-escalation that would both insure a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza strip and the return of Israeli detainees to Israel.
Israel has not rejected the proposal, and is supposed to review it in an official capacity on the 25th of December, while the response of Palestinian officials from Hamas and the PIJ is not noted - they were there in Cairo during the talks.
The Egyptian proposal includes "one or two weeks of ceasefire" in exchange for the release of 40 Israeli women, as well as any men above the age of 60 + the ones in dire medical need.
Thus concludes the first stage - the second stage involves an exchange of all bodies between the Palestinian and Israeli side, moving into the third stage - includes an All for All deal - all Israeli military personnel in captivity in exchange for the release of all Palestinians in Israeli prisons, followed by an Israeli withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
@themediterraneanman
— It was a small tree put up by locals, not a big tree or in an official square, for those wondering.
Bethlehem municipality limited all official celebrations and major decorations in solidarity with Gaza.
Watch: Kate surprises young footballer and his coach at party
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67815280?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Rico's coach Russell Gray was also at the event and joked he was 'hoodwinked' into meeting the princess.
Alabama mother: Joy as babies born to mum with rare double womb
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67815276?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Kelsey Hatcher has given birth in Alabama twice in two days - after a "one in a million" pregnancy.