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The European Union (EU) has suspended imports of fresh beef, sheep and goat meat and of biltong from Namibia after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the EU said on 5 October.
The European Commission has suspended €18 million ($21 million) of 2026 budget support to Sierra Leone because Freetown has not extradited Jos Leijdekkers, a Dutch cocaine trafficker convicted in the Netherlands and Belgium, Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel said on 1 October.
Rwanda has held early talks with Germany, Austria, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands about hosting migrants removed from the European Union (EU), two European Parliament members said after visiting Kigali.