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            <title>Protester shot at demonstration against US Ebola facility in Kenya</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A protester was shot in central Kenya on Tuesday, witnesses said, during a demonstration against a quarantine centre for Americans exposed to Ebola that the US has raced to build despite Kenyan court orders barring further work. Two Reuters reporters, who did not witness the shooting themselves, said the body of the man lay motionless with a large wound to the head in the back of a police van. A police spokesperson said he did not have information about the incident.]]></description>
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            <title>IMF says Nigeria reforms boost stability but millions still in poverty</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund said Nigeria's sweeping reforms have strengthened economic stability and investor confidence, but warned on Tuesday that the benefits had yet to reach millions of citizens and could be undermined by global shocks, including the Middle East conflict. In its latest Article IV review, the Fund said reforms since 2023 under President Bola Tinubu - including fuel subsidy removal, tighter monetary policy and exchange rate liberalisation - had rebuilt buffers and improved macroeconomic management. However, the IMF cautioned that while the reforms were restoring investor confidence and stabilising the economy, they were also contributing to social strain, with poverty levels at 63% and millions facing food insecurity, underscoring a widening gap between macro gains and household realities.]]></description>
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            <title>Congo Ebola contact tracing is below target but has improved, WHO says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Efforts to trace contacts in the Democratic Republic of Congo to try to contain the country's Ebola outbreak have improved but are below target, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. There have been 550 confirmed cases of Ebola, including 101 deaths, according to the WHO's latest figures, as well as 94 suspected cases. The outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola was announced on May 15, though officials have since said it went undetected for weeks, complicating efforts to bring it under control. "We have reached 62% of contacts, but our target is 90-95%," Dr Abdi Mahamud from the WHO told reporters in Geneva via video link from Bunia in the DRC.]]></description>
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            <title>Cholera outbreak in Nigeria's Borno kills 74, infects thousands since May</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A cholera outbreak that began in early May in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state has killed at least 74 people and infected more than 7 800, overwhelming health facilities, aid group Médecins Sans Frontières said on Tuesday. MSF said 7 850 suspected cases had been recorded across 14 local government areas as of June 7, citing the state ministry of health, with infections rising sharply each day. The outbreak is straining an already fragile healthcare system in a region at the heart of a 17-year Islamist insurgency, mass displacement and poor water and sanitation, raising the risk of wider spread if containment falters. MSF, working with the state ministry of health, has set up a cholera treatment centre in the capital Maiduguri to support the response.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Kenyan police fired tear gas on Tuesday to scatter protesters in the central town of Nanyuki opposing a quarantine centre for Americans exposed to Ebola that the US government has raced to build despite Kenyan court orders barring further work. The proposed 50-bed unit on an air force base has angered many Kenyans, who accuse the United States of offloading the health risk of caring for those exposed to the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. ]]></description>
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            <title>Egypt inflation seen easing to 14.5% in May, analysts warn of rebound ahead</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Egypt's annual inflation rate is expected to have eased to 14.5% in May, pulled lower by favourable base effects, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, though analysts warn the respite will be short-lived as electricity price hikes and other pressures push prices higher in coming months. The median forecast of 15 analysts polled by Reuters between June 3-8 was for annual urban consumer inflation to have slipped to 14.5% in May from 14.9% in April. Forecasts ranged from a low of 13.3% to a high of 16.0%. The rate had eased in April from 15.2% the month before, which marked a 10-month high, despite inflationary pressure from the Iran conflict.]]></description>
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            <title>Kenya police fire tear gas, arrest ex chief justice at national park protest</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Riot police fired tear gas to disperse scores of protesters rallying on Monday against plans to build on part of a national park in Kenya's capital. Officers moved in and arrested at least nine people, including former Chief Justice David Maraga, outside the main entrance of Nairobi National Park, Reuters reporters said. The Kenya Wildlife Service has defended the project, saying it will expand an animal orphanage on the site, Africa's only wildlife reserve within a capital city. Protesters - who waved placards marked with "Nature is not vacant land" and other slogans - say the plans, including a parking area for more than 1 000 vehicles, will encroach on one of Kenya's most famous protected areas.]]></description>
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            <title>Central African Republic to accept third-country deportees from US, sources say</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Central African Republic has agreed to take in migrants from other countries deported by the United States, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, the latest example of the Trump administration striking deals with African states to accelerate removals. Washington has sent so-called third-country deportees to African countries including Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, under opaque deals that Senate Democrats say have cost tens of millions of dollars. In many cases, deportees had secured legal protections from immigration courts in the US against their repatriation. But rights groups say the third-country deals allow the US to circumvent those protections.]]></description>
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