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Ebola spread in central Africa could match 2014 record outbreak, US health officials say
Modelling from US CDC shows Ebola spread could be on ‘dangerous trajectory’, but experts warn outbreaks can be very hard to predict
Central Africa’s Ebola outbreak could spread to be similar in scale to the worst outbreak in history,
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‘Family values’ African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerous
Draft treaty claims sexual and reproductive health and rights are an existential threat to the African family
An African treaty that rejects longstanding international human rights obligations moved a step closer to becoming policy this week as governments across the continent met in Ghana.
The draft African charter on family, sovereignty and values, seen by the Guardian, asserts
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Experts criticise plan for American-only Ebola quarantine centre in Kenya
Plan departs from policy of bringing CDC staff back to US for treatment and offering support to all health workers
Former top US officials and other experts are urging the Trump administration to abandon plans for an Ebola quarantine and treatment centre in Kenya, as the union for workers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls for Americans exposed to Ebola
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Civilians flee as Somali troops and opposition-allied militias trade fire in Mogadishu
Violence flares before protests on Thursday over president’s decision to remain in office after his term expired
Fierce clashes have taken place between government troops and militias allied with the opposition in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee.
In the runup to the fighting, which started on Wednesday afternoon, opposition
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Rebel attacks in eastern DRC kill 30 people and hamper Ebola response
Islamic State-linked militia blamed for raids in North Kivu as governor says three patients with disease fled clinics
Rebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have left more than 30 people dead over the past few days, complicating the response to the disease.
At least 10 people were massacred in raids on
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‘Historic’: Canadian warehouse workers sign first-ever union deal with Walmart
Union says collective agreement is just the start of a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country
Canadian warehouse workers have signed the first-ever collective agreement with Walmart, a breakthrough labour organizers are calling a “historic and powerful
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Aviation industry looks skywards as leaders fly in for Rio summit
Oil tankers may be stuck behind strait of Hormuz, but holding the Iata AGM in Brazil defies warnings of impending shortages
Nothing says jet fuel crisis, as one prospective attender put it, like flying everyone to Rio de Janeiro. Aviation leaders will converge in Brazil this weekend for the Iata AGM, the annual global airline summit, with the industry still, for the most part, looking
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US imposes new sanctions on Cuban president and Castro family members
US secretary of state Marco Rubio says anyone providing services to listed entities ‘is at risk of sanctions themselves’
The United States has announced fresh economic sanctions on Cuba’s president and some of his immediate family, alongside members of the Castro family, in Washington’s latest ramping up of pressure on its communist-led neighbour.
Among those targeted were the son
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Canada endorses embattled marine park’s plan to relocate 30 beluga whales
Beluga whales, which Marineland threatened to euthanize in 2025, will be moved to aquariums in Spain or across US
Canada and an embattled marine park have reached a tentative deal on the future of 30
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Outrage in Argentina after two teen girls murdered as femicide crisis endures
Country is shaken by the brutal murders of two girls, aged 14 and 17, whose bodies were discovered just days apart
Argentina has reacted with fury after the bodies of two murdered teenage girls were found just two days apart. The latest killings underscore the South American country’s enduring femicide crisis despite years of feminist campaigning, and have prompted alarm over the
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