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Title Daily Noon Briefing Highlights: Equatorial Guinea - Iraq 10 Mar 2021 Body Daily Noon Briefing Highlights – 10 March 2021 Equatorial Guinea As of 9 March, 105 people have been killed and 615 others injured following a series of explosions at an armory of the Nkuantoma Gendarmerie and special forces barracks in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, on Sunday. The blast significantly damaged the only COVID-19 testing laboratory. Initial figures from military sources indicate that up to 30...

BBC News Equatorial Guinea is a small country on the west coast of Africa which struck oil in 1995 and which is now being cited as a textbook case of the resource curse - or the paradox of plenty. It is made up of a mainland territory called Rio Muni, and five islands including Bioko, where the capital Malabo is located. Since the mid 1990s the former Spanish colony has become one of sub-Saharas biggest oil producers but a large proportion of the population still lives in poverty. Rights organ...

Death toll from Equatorial Guinea military camp blasts rises to 98 Mar. 9 04:22 am JST Mar. 24 | 12:26 am JST MALABO, Equatorial Guinea The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. © 2021 AFP ©2021 GPlusMedia Inc. How could such huge explosions happen accidentally in a military camp? "The city of Bata has been the victim of negligence by the team in charge of guarding sto...

Translate Toll from military camp blasts in Equatorial Guinea rises to 30 ― State TV On Kindly Share This Story: The death toll from accidental explosions at a military camp in Equatorial Guinea rose to 30 on Monday, state television said, after 10 more bodies were found in the ruined site. Six hundred people were injured in the blasts, which also flattened homes near the camp on the outskirts of the economic hub of Bata, TVGE said, adding that it expected the toll to ris...

A Small Village Takes On Big Oil In How Beautiful We Were By Tochi Onyebuchi | NPR Random House A madman commits one of the first acts of rebellion in Imbolo Mbues vast second novel. In the village of Kosawa, a battle is raging: On one side, the citizens of this once-idyll. On the other, the mammoth oil company Pexton, which has, over generations, polluted the villages water and air and ground and, through its malfeasance, killed a growing number of its children. With smooth prose fr...

At least 98 people have been killed and more than 600 others are injured after multiple explosions at a military camp in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday. The sta

Death toll from Equatorial Guinea blasts rises to 98, with at least 615 injured

The death toll from accidental explosions that rocked a military camp in Equatorial Guinea and the surrounding area rose sharply Monday to 98.

The African Development Bank has approved two grants for research that will increase African women’s access to a range of digital financial services including loans and micro-insurance. The grants, for $1 million and $300,000 respectively, will be disbursed through the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility, a blended finance vehicle supported by the Bank, to two financial technology firms, Pula Advisors Kenya Ltd., and M-KOPA Kenya Ltd. Pula Advisors will use the $1 million for research...

Stop Zambia’s digital squeeze COMMENT Zambia’s August 2021 elections are on the horizon. The 2016 polls were closely contested despite widespread irregularities. These have been difficult years for citizens. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, spiralling debt and inflation resulted in rising living costs and contributed to underfunded public services.  Progress in advancing sustainable development is being undermined as a result. Against this backdrop, we in the opposition United Party ...