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[Premium Times] "Over 80,000 women die prematurely from the toxic smoke of firewood and traditional cooking stoves."

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[New Times] Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority has announced an immediate recall of batch No. B6224 of Aspirine Vitamin C 330mg/200mg (effervescent tablets), manufactured by Union de pharmacologie scientifique appliquée (UPSA), a French pharmaceutical group, due to quality concerns.

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[Lesotho Times] MEMBERS of Parliament have expressed strong opposition to a proposed legal amendment that seeks to raise the retirement age for police officers from 55 to 60 years.

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[Daily News] DODOMA: THE government has imposed an immediate ban on the importation of all agricultural produce from South Africa and Malawi, following the two countries' failure to lift trade restrictions on Tanzanian farm products.

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[Daily News] The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy, Dr. Doto Biteko, has called on citizens to remain united and avoid divisions based on religion, politics, or ethnicity as the country approaches the General Election for President, Members of Parliament, and Councilors, for the greater good of the nation.

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Kenya has secured over $950 million to fund key projects under its Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), with $320 million allocated to manufacturing, $430 million to agriculture, and $230 million to tourism.

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[RFI] Kenyan President William Ruto has begun a five-day state visit to China, signalling a deepening of strategic and economic ties between the nations. Ruto's first state visit to China since taking office in 2022 is being viewed by some as a strategic shift amid evolving geopolitical dynamics.

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[Daily Trust] President Bola Tinubu has directed an immediate and comprehensive overhaul of national security strategies, demanding urgent action to end the escalating violence in Borno, Benue, Plateau and Kwara states.

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[The New Humanitarian] Oromia, Ethiopia -- "Please come back, my son, I will share everything I have with you."

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[Crisis Group] Crisis Group's Daniel Akech on stirrings of renewed civil war in South Sudan

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[UN News] The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to have devastating consequences, particularly for women and children, who face an increased risk of conflict-related sexual violence.

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[Dabanga] North Darfur -- As independent reports confirm that an estimated three million displaced civilians have fled westwards, following escalating ground offensive and shelling in battles between the (Sudanese Armed Forces) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in and around the North Darfur capital of El Fasher over the past week, and are overwhelming resources in the Tawila and Jebel Marra areas, a new report by the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at the Yale School of Public Health published yesterday, which

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[UN News] At a high stakes virtual summit on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva brought together 17 national leaders from major economies and climate-vulnerable countries. The goal was to accelerate global climate ambition ahead of COP30, which will be hosted in Brazil.

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[The Conversation Africa] Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant idea was that grasslands and savannahs were the ecological "cradle" of human beings. Environments like rainforest were considered to be barriers to human expansion, and inhabited only much later in human history.

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[African Development Bank (AfDB)] What: High-Level Side Event: Presentation of policy report "Measuring the Green Wealth of Nations: Natural Capital and Economic Productivity in Africa," advocating for the inclusion of natural capital in GDP measurement.

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[African Development Bank (AfDB)] Buoyed by last year's successful Africa Investment Forum's Market Days that generated $29.2 billion of investment interest, its nine founding partners are bracing for an even bigger and better event later this year.

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Volodymyr Zelensky is on a historic visit to South Africa to counter Russia's influence on the continent.

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Tundu Lissu has survived against the political odds over the years but has now been charged with treason.

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The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) gathered to pay their respects to the pope and sent their condolences to the College of Cardinals worldwide

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The World Bank has committed to supporting Ghana in tackling its youth unemployment challenge by backing a new Growth and Jobs Strategy aimed at creating

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The Chairperson of the AU Commission, H.E. @ymahmoudali, received H.E. Nonceba Losi, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to Ethiopia&Permanent