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Africa News Tonight: African leaders call for UN reform, push for greater effort against mpox, Egypt, Somalia security links worry Ethiopia - September 25, 2024

2024/9/25
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Nigeria has joined the growing calls by Africans leaders at the 79th U.N. General Assembly in New York for U.N. Security Council reforms. President Joe Biden pushed for a greater international response to the mpox outbreak and promised to send 1 million vaccine doses to affected African nations. Ethiopia's foreign minister has warned that Egypt’s weapons shipments to Somalia could exacerbate regional tensions, after Cairo and Mogadishu signed a security deal.