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Bitcoin's price topped the $100,000 (€95,268) mark this month following Trump's nomination of the pro-crypto Paul Atkins to be the new leader of the US Securities and Exchange (SEC).

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. An unprecedented explosion of conflicts has carved a trail of death and destruction across the breadth of Africa—from Mali near the continent’s western edge all the way to Somalia on its eastern Horn.

For eight years a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World Heritage Site, accused by locals and conservationists of decimating the environment

George Soros' philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, will continue to fund human rights movements around the world

Disease X is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This flu-like disease has caused significant concern due to its high infection and death rates. The World Health Organization (WHO) is working to understand and contain the outbreak.

After African countries struggled to get testing kits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials vowed to make the continent less dependent on imported medical supplies

Lobito Corridor Trans-Africa Summit in Angola. The summit, held with leaders from Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania’s vice-president Philip Mpango, saw Biden closing his eyes and resting his hand on his face during Mpango’s speech. Though wearing an earpiece for translations, all speeches were in English.

President Joe Biden is finding ways to celebrate trains in the waning days of his presidency thousands of miles from home

President Joe Biden on Tuesday toured a slavery museum in Angola and inspected shackles and a whip, and he spoke of “our nation’s original sin."

Marburg, also termed as the 'Bleeding Eye's virus due to one of its symptoms, has killed 15 people in Rwanda and has left hundreds of them infected, reports The Mirror. ALSO READ: Delhi reports first case of Japanese Encephalitis: check symptoms of this viral disease

Biden is finally making his long-promised visit to Africa this week, attempting to showcase a US-backed railway project in three countries that he has pushed as a new approach in countering some of China's global influence. Biden's first visit to the continent as president — which he left to the very end — will highlight the Lobito Corridor railway redevelopment in Zambia, Congo and Angola. It aims to advance US presence in a region rich in the critical minerals used in batteries for electric vehicles, electronic devices and clean energy technologies. That's a key field for US-China competition and China has a stranglehold on Africa's critical minerals.

President Joe Biden will make his long-awaited visit to Africa this week to showcase a U.S.-backed railway project that goes across three countries

The Singapore pavilion at the United Nations climate talks offers attendees free beer with an ingredient that's surprising to many — treated wastewater

In August, the disease which continues to spread in Africa was classified by the U.N. health body as a public health emergency of international concern, which represents the highest form of alert. This followed the spread of a new variant of the virus, called clade Ib, in parts of the continent. There have been 46,794 confirmed and suspected cases in Africa this year through Nov. 3, including 1,081 deaths, the WHO said in a report issues on Monday. The most affected country is the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by Burundi and Uganda, it said.

mpox strain that has spread from Democratic Republic of Congo to neighboring countries may affect girls and young women, a new study has revealed. Girls and young women may be more susceptible to an infectious subvariant of the virus that causes mpox, reported Bloomberg. Hundreds of children have already died of this deadly strain in eastern Congo. The details of the subvariant of the virus were published in the scientific journal Eurosurveillance, according to which 154 people have tested positive for mpox in Burundi, an area in eastern Congo. Of 154 mpox cases that were reported from July 3 to September 9, the median age was 9.5 years. ALSO READ: New Mpox variant detected in Germany: Health authority

The government of Congo has canceled an auction for 27 sites earmarked for oil exploration, citing late submissions and a lack of competition

A regional partnership for Nile River basin countries says an agreement on the equitable use of water resources has come into force despite the notable opposition of Egypt

Sex workers are among those hardest-hit by the mpox outbreak in eastern Congo's Kamituga town

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Scattered across the ocean floor are trillions of lumps of nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese. Companies have long wanted to mine them: these “critical minerals" are needed in vast quantities to electrify the global economy and cut dependence on fossil fuels.

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