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In the midst of the government crisis, the 66-year-old chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz, received today (5/11) in Berlin the president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohammed.

Türkiye will reiterate its commitment to further enhancing its ties with Africa in a more institutional manner at a key summit slated for Djibouti, where its top diplomat will meet with colleagues from 14 African nations.

Türkiye and the African Union (AU) will hold a third ministerial review conference in Djibouti in early November to further improve ties between the two sides and discuss regional and global developments.

The third Ministerial Review Conference will be held in Djibouti on Nov. 2 and 3, Turkish diplomatic sources told a group of reporters.

A coalition of 104 U.N. member states, along with the African Union, condemned on Friday Israel's decision to declare Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "persona non grata."

The group voiced strong support for Guterres in a statement.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday called on manufacturers to increase production of mpox vaccines to address the spread of a more dangerous strain of the virus, Clade 1b.

This strain has surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other regions, prompting the WHO to declare a public health emergency of international concern on Wednesday.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the mpox surge in Africa a global public health emergency, sounding its highest possible alarm over the worsening situation.

Worried by the rise in cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the spread to nearby countries, the WHO hastily convened a meeting of experts to study the outbreak.

Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox are seen from a cooler at a vaccinations site on Aug. 29, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. African health officials said mpox cases have spiked by 160% in the last year, warning the risk of further spread is high given the lack of effective treatments or vaccines on the continent

The world's richest one percent increased their fortunes by a total of $42 trillion over the past decade, Oxfam said on Thursday, ahead of a G20 summit in Brazil where taxing the super-rich tops the agenda.

The head of the African Union Commission said he was following events in the Democratic Republic of Congo with "great concern" and "strongly condemns" an attempted coup there.

The DR Congo military said on Sunday it had foiled a coup bid near the offices of President Felix Tshisekedi in the capital Kinshasa involving "foreigners and Congolese".

The African Union condemned Wednesday the Israeli military's moves into southern Gaza's Rafah, calling for the international community to stop "this deadly escalation" of the war.