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Ethiopia’s coffee and cut flower industries face significant challenges due to new EU regulations. From January 2025, producers must comply with the bloc’s Due Diligence Act, which imposes strict environmental standards on exports to Europe. Millions of small coffee farmers will have to prove their land is free from deforestation, while flower farmers will have…

In Rwanda, the Marburg virus has already killed 12 people in two weeks. The country has begun distributing 700 doses of a vaccine that is still in the testing phase. This is the first time it has been developed during an outbreak in Africa. Meanwhile, more than 17 million people in Mozambique will go to…

French Finance Minister Antoine Armand has pledged that the 2025 budget will be fully in line with new European Union spending rules as the country seeks to tackle its “colossal” debt through spending cuts and new taxes. Armand aims to reduce the public deficit to 5% of GDP next year, with a longer-term goal of…

Incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied is set to win the presidential election with 89.2 percent of the vote, according to exit polls on Sunday, despite low turnout. Rights groups fear his re-election, following a sweeping power grab, will further entrench his authoritarian rule in the country that once symbolized the Arab Spring uprisings. Source link

Tunisians voted on Sunday in an election in which President Kais Saied is seeking a second term, with his main rival suddenly jailed last month and most opponents jailed or barred from running. The period leading up to Sunday was rather unusual for a presidential election: there were no campaign rallies or public debates. Watch…

Incumbent Kais Saied looks poised to win another term in Sunday’s presidential election with just two opposition candidates: a former lawmaker who backed Saied’s 2021 mandate and a recently jailed businessman. Tunisia’s electoral commission has barred 14 candidates from running during a campaign marred by a crackdown on dissent. Source link

The first vaccines were given to hospital staff on Saturday and more will be made available to the public most at risk on Monday, the health minister said. As the Democratic Republic of Congo struggles to contain a deadly mpox outbreak, the country is still waiting for millions of doses of vaccine to arrive from…

French photographer Janine Niépce was one of the country’s first female photojournalists. A new exhibition of her photographs, some of which are on display for the first time, examines the rise of the working woman against the backdrop of the women’s rights movement in the second half of the twentieth century. Source link

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said he hopes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will rejoin the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc, in an interview with FRANCE 24. The military councils’ decision of the three countries to withdraw from ECOWAS was a setback and the security situation has worsened since the departure of…

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said he hopes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will rejoin the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc. The decision by the three countries’ military councils to withdraw from ECOWAS was a setback and the security situation has worsened since the departure of…