MALI: The military regime has arrested Resolute Mining chief executive Terence Holohan and two other employees of the Australian gold-extraction company while they were visiting the country for talks on an unspecified dispute, the firm said today.

The three were detained last Friday the capital Bamako.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: The World Health Organisation said today that mpox cases in the region where a new and more infectious variant was first detected earlier this year appear to be “plateauing,” even as the virus continues to increase in other regions of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda.