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[New Zimbabwe] HARARE residents are opposing the government's plan to roll out prepaid water meters, arguing the move will not solve the city's ongoing water shortages, poor water quality and widespread leakages.

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[Leadership] The Dangote Refinery may end crude oil import as it considers sourcing the entire crude required for the 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery capacity in-country.

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[Ayin English] Zahraa Omar used to reside in the internally displacement persons (IDP) camp Zamzam, just outside El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur State. After suffering from multiple attacks, Zahraa and her family decided to flee the area.

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[IPS] United Nations -- A coalition of UN staff unions, led by the 60,000-strong Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations (CCISUA), has written to UN member states criticizing the UN80 reform process as "incoherent and lacking strategy".

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[Afropop] Music is Culture is an unusual organization, dedicated to preserving and nurturing at-risk cultures around the world. Among their projects is one focused on the Ndau ethnic group in southern Zimbabawe, and their music tradition, most notably the mbira dzaVaNdau, the lamellophone unique to this group. Afropop's Banning Eyre spoke with Zack Youcha of Music is Culture to learn more about this project. Here's their conversation.

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[Dabanga] Ed Damer -- Authorities in River Nile state forcibly deported around 1,200 displaced people, about 600 families, from Ed Damer on Sunday, drawing strong condemnation from human rights defenders who described the move as a violation of displaced people's rights and international norms on voluntary return.

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[The Conversation Africa] Ten years ago, the world committed itself to keeping global warming well below 2°C (and preferably below 1.5°C) above the pre-industrial era. This would be done by reducing greenhouse gas emissions significantly by 2030 and ending all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This was the time of promises, with 195 countries signing up to the legally binding, global treaty on climate change, the Paris Agreement.

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[UN News] The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has expressed deep concern over the killing of at least ten protesters in Kenya on Monday, amid reports that police and security forces used lethal force to quell violent demonstrations in Nairobi and across the country.

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[Chatham House] A lunch at the White House with an unexpected group of African leaders shows Trump's policy on Africa is active, opportunistic and shaped by personal relationships.

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[Dabanga] Wad Madani / El Gezira / El Managil / El Fasher -- Activists from human rights groups and resistance committees told Radio Dabanga yesterday that arbitrary arrests and intimidation are surging across Sudan, from El Gezira to El Fasher, targeting volunteers, aid workers, lawyers and journalists.

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[The Conversation Africa] African food systems face daunting challenges in the face of climate change. They must ensure fair access to food for residents of Africa's growing cities and create decent jobs where workers and small businesses get a fair share of earnings. Food systems must also mitigate the environmental problems they cause, such as biodiversity loss, soil degradation and greenhouse gas emissions.

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[Africa CDC] The Malawi Ministry of Health, launched its updated plan for the implementation of its Genomic Surveillance Strategy that was produced with technical support from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention - Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) on 3 July.

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[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's personal income tax system is in the spotlight as the country's tax filing season gets under way. Personal income tax is an important way of redistributing income from higher-earning to less-well-off individuals.

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[ISS] As armed groups shift away from direct confrontations with the military, commercial drones are increasingly used to carry out attacks.

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Kylian Mbappé has withdrawn his moral harassment complaint against his former employer, Paris Saint-Germain. The player had demanded €55 million in unpaid salaries and bonuses from the club for the past year.

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• All Hands on Deck: Unleash prosperity through world class capital markets by Arunma Oteh has emerged as the winner of the prestigious award for 2025

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The meeting on Wednesday is being described as President Donald Trump's first major diplomatic outreach to Africa since returning to office. The invitation includes heads of state from Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon and Mauritania.

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As the only sub-Saharan country on the list of latest trade tariffs the Trump administration threatens to impose, South Africa could be hit with 30% tariffs on its exports to the US from 1 August.

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Activists Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah have been missing since 9 July 2024. Amnesty International has demanded action from the authorities and denounced a "climate of terror" as the junta in power has stepped up disappearances of critics and activists.

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[AWLN] Seville, Spain -- On the margins of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) convened a powerful High-Level Side Event titled: ''Bridging the Global Financing Gap: African Women's Leadership for Economic Justice and Effective Implementation of Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2030.''

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Egyptian authorities have reported that the fire that engulfed a major telecom company building in Cairo on Monday left four people dead and over two dozen injuries.