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Starting today, Wednesday, the Ecuadorian Government will implement eight-hour nightly power outages in the country for four days due to the severe drought and a curfew in six provinces during the national blackout.

Ecuador will implement eight-hour nationwide nightly blackouts and teleworking in the public sector to deal with the worst drought in the last 60 years that threatens its hydroelectric plants, the government reported on Tuesday. Due to the worst decline recorded…

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the monkeypox (mpox) outbreak, which affects Africa, Europe and Latin America: Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and El Salvador, announce protective measures as a public health emergency of international concern (ESPII)

The decision was taken unanimously by a WHO Emergency Committee amid concerns that a more deadly and transmissible strain of the virus (formerly known as monkeypox) has reached previously unaffected African regions. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…