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Ayomitunde Adeyemi

Health Workers Battling Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Struggle With Little Pay

In Mongbwalu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, health workers on the front lines of a growing Ebola outbreak say they are overworked, underpaid,...

Migrants Flee As Xenophobic Violence Escalates In South Africa

Hundreds of African migrants are fleeing their homes in parts of South Africa’s Western Cape Province following a surge in anti-immigrant protests that have...

Lab-Grown Diamonds Shake Global Market As Sierra Leone Miners Struggle

The growing popularity of lab-grown diamonds is disrupting the global diamond industry, causing a sharp decline in the value of natural diamonds and threatening...

South African Rand Holds Steady As Markets Assess New U.S. Tariff Proposal And Gulf Ceasefire

The South African rand remained largely unchanged against the U.S. dollar on Thursday as investors evaluated a new U.S. tariff proposal tied to forced...

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CBN Holds Interest Rate At 26.5% As MPC Cites Global Risks And Inflation Concerns

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has retained the country’s benchmark interest rate, the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), at 26.5 per cent, following the conclusion of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in Abuja. CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso, who announced the committee’s decision on Tuesday, said the move reflected the...

144 Migrants Dead Or Missing Off Mauritania’s Coast, UN Says

The UN refugee agency reported on Tuesday that 144 migrants are dead or missing after attempting to reach Europe via the waters off Mauritania, following three separate rescue operations carried out between July 14 and 18. The heaviest toll came from a single boat that departed Bufaloto, Gambia,...

ECOWAS Demands Release Of Detained Opposition Leader In Guinea-Bissau

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has called on Guinea-Bissau's military-led government to unconditionally free all detained political figures, including opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira, according to a statement issued after a summit of regional heads of state in Sierra Leone. Freeing the political prisoners would...