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[GroundUp] The task team had begun exposing questionable state land allocations and widespread corruption

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[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name.

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[ISS] Working collectively, companies can use their market power to drive corruption from their sectors and reap the financial rewards.

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12-Month Google AI Pro Plan Launched for Students in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe to Build Foundational AI Skills 

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[The Conversation Africa] Biologists often form deep bonds with the species they study. For some, that relationship begins early in their careers and shapes decades of research. The connection can be personal, even affectionate, but it can also create tensions when others set their sights on the same species.

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[The Conversation Africa] Despite international efforts to eliminate child marriage, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to have high rates of this harmful practice.

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[The Conversation Africa] For many African communities, the climate crisis is not a future scenario - it is a daily emergency. Irreversible losses, destroyed homes, failed harvests, vanishing ecosystems and lack of access to clean water are already happening.

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[The New Humanitarian] Nairobi -- Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

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The court sets aside the 1967 inquest that found that the anti-apartheid hero was hit by a goods train.

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The Trump administration has slashed the number of refugees allowed into the United States and is prioritising white South Africans. The new cap for 2026 drops from 125,000 under Biden to just 7,500 most of them reserved for members of South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority.

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[allAfrica] Accra, Ghana -- Young people are not just beneficiaries of education but key partners in shaping its future.

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[allAfrica] Accra, Ghana -- It is estimated that 90% of African children in school are unable to read or write, and the situation is worse in conflict-affected areas.

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As voters headed to the polls, protests erupted in Dar es Salaam and other major cities after the main opposition candidates were barred from the presidential race. Angry demonstrators clashed with police, prompting a nationwide curfew and military deployment.

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[Dabanga] The Sudan Media Forum (SMF) coalition of independent media outlets and organisations strongly condemns the escalating and brutal violence committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against civilians across Sudan, particularly in the besieged city of El Fasher. For over 18 months, hundreds of thousands of civilians in the city and its surroundings have been trapped under a tightening RSF siege, where malnutrition, disease, and daily violence claim innocent lives.

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[Dabanga] New York / Amsterdam -- Reports of mass atrocities in and around the North Darfur capital El Fasher following the city's capture by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have prompted a chorus of international condemnation, and renewed calls for an immediate ceasefire and demands for unrestricted access to the region by humanitarian relief organisations. The atrocities have been acknowledged by RSF commander Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemedti', while satellite imagery confirms mass graves and at least 1,500 civilian

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[Dabanga] El Fasher / Tawila -- Report by Amal Yahya of Jabraka News for Sudan Media Forum

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[Dabanga] The Hague / Tawila -- Report by Amal Mohammed Al-Hassan of Al-Taghyeer Newspaper for Sudan Media Forum

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Harrowing accounts from people who have escaped an RSF assault on the besieged city of el-Fasher.

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The pan-African communications agency strengthens its West African footprint with a new local operation in Accra, deepening its ability to provide market

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The Assistant Secretary-General for Africa told the Security Council that the situation has also deteriorated elsewhere across the country.