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At least nine people have died, and over 80 others are seriously ill in Kargi Location, Marsabit County, following an outbreak of an unknown disease. Moses Galoro, the senior chief of the area has appealed for an urgent intervention to prevent further fatalities. Preliminary tests indicated the possibility of a violent malaria outbreak, according to local media reports. According to Chief Galoro, six adults, and three children aged between one and three years have died from the disease. The affected persons had a travel history out of Marsabit County, having come from satellite camps in Archers Post and Merille areas....

Yemen's elite Republican Guard forces fired rifles, tear gas, and water cannons on over 100,000 marchers on a road leading to the capital of Sanaa, killing at least 9 and wounding at least 90. Participants in the so-called "March of Life" followed a 270-kilometre route from the southern city of Taez, a major opposition stronghold. The march reportedly began with some 15,000 participants but grew over four days as it made its way to the capital. They object to a transfer of power deal agreed to by outgoing president Ali Abdullah Saleh, in which he agreed to step down in...