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Africa CDC urges Western countries to boost funding for Mpox response

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The head of the African Union’s health agency urged the West to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic and avoid abandoning Africa amid the mpox epidemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a global emergency in August 2024, due to the spread of the new Clade 1b strain in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), […]
Egypt Headlines

Egypt Summons Several Western Ambassadors over “Intervention” in its internal affairs

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The Egyptian foreign ministry announced Sunday it summoned the envoys of several Western countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada and Britain to protest against ‘meddling in Egypt’s internal affairs’ concerning the case of human rights defender Ibrahim Metwally, currently detained in prison. Cairo in a statement said it strongly disagreed with these countries, which […]