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Africa Live: Thousands join Nigeria cost-of-living protests - BBC News Africa Live: Nigeria raises interest rates amid cost-of-living protests - BBC News
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Will Ross BBC World Service
Africa editor, BBC World Service Egypt's air force has dropped 45 tonnes of aid into northern and central Gaza. It said more will be delivered soon.
The Egyptian deliveries are crucial as last week the World Food Programme suspended deliveries in northern Gaza because supplies were being looted.
Nigeria's Central Bank has raised interest rates in an effort to curb inflation on a day when thousands of people have been protesting against the government's handling of the economy. UN aid agencies say they are being systematically prevented from carrying out their work in Gaza, and their staff are being attacked.
Inflation has reached almost 30%, leaving many millions struggling to afford food. The UN humanitarian agency, Ocha, said Israel soldiers had prevented a team from evacuating patients from Al Amal hospital in Khan Younis on Sunday.
Last year, President Bola Tinubu scrapped a costly subsidy causing the price of fuel to triple. He also devalued the Nigerian currency - the naira - prompting a hike in the price of imports. It said patients were forced out of ambulances and the medical team were made to strip. It said this was not an isolated incident. Israel has yet to comment.
Those reforms have led to widespread anger. More on this topic:
Nigeria's finance minister Wale Edun told the BBC that people needed to be patient as the measures would in time benefit Nigeria's economy. Live updates on Gaza from the BBC
Hope for Gazaceasefire by next week, says Biden
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