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Nearly a year after Rwanda-backed M23 fighters seized the eastern Congolese city of Goma, life for civilians has changed dramatically, marked by insecurity, displacement, and deepening political tensions.

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[Health-e] Several government schools in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, have become breeding grounds for health hazards, due to delayed waste collection and illegal dumping. During a recent visit to Soshanguve Block R, Health-e News saw waste dumped at three separate schools.

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[The New Humanitarian] Kampala -- "I heard others telling their stories, and I felt they were similar to my own."

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[RFI] El Obeid -- Drone strikes have intensified in and around al-Obeid in central Sudan as the country's devastating civil war closes in on the army-controlled city, causing significant civilian deaths in at least two cases, residents say.

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[The Conversation Africa] In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa's Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen in Stellenbosch and uncooperative taxpayers. It is a tiny window on the regular frustrations of a 19th-century taxman. But the poem survives only because the bureaucracy did.

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[UN News] A rising trend towards government-enforced internet shutdowns - with at least 300 incidents in more than 54 countries over the last two years - is prompting renewed warnings from the UN about the threat these digital blackouts pose to freedom of expression, access to information and human rights.

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[Africa CDC] Africa has officially lifted Mpox as a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security following recommendations from the Africa CDC Emergency Consultative Group. The decision highlights the continent's strengthened health security, effective leadership, regional cooperation, and successful international partnerships in managing complex public health challenges.

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[Premium Times] The final will be remembered not only for silverware, but for a defining debate about officiating, emotion, and where protest ends, and passion begins in African football's biggest moments

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[Premium Times] According to the Kebbi State Nutrition Office, 608 severely malnourished children died between January and September 2025 across 21 treatment centres in five local government areas.

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[Premium Times] The coalition of civil society groups described the demolitions as part of a systemic attack on the urban poor, carried out without consultation, compensation, or resettlement.

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[GroundUp] Hundreds of homes were damaged by floods in uMshwati in November

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[GroundUp] 73% of water authorities in South Africa have "poor" or "critical" water systems

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[GroundUp] The rules make it almost impossible to run an informal business legally

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto is scheduled to engage with graduate interns recently onboarded under the government's Affordable Housing Program on Friday.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The High Court has ordered the immediate release and customs clearance of all pending and incoming shipments of duty-free Grade 1 milled white rice, in a landmark decision that places national food security and the constitutional right to food at the forefront of government action.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Raila Odinga Junior has intensified efforts to address the chronic water shortage in Kibra when on Thursday he led a delegation of local leaders to Nairobi City Hall for discussions with county officials aimed at finding practical solutions to the crisis.

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[Addis Standard] Mekelle -- Human Rights First has raised concern over what it described as a deteriorating human rights situation in the Tigray region, citing multiple allegations of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and physical harm.

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Guinea-Bissau has halted a US-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on newborns, pending an emergency ethical review. The country’s health minister says a six-member ethics committee never met before the study was approved, a major red flag.

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Some 160 people are believed to be missing after attackers raided three churches in a Nigerian village on Sunday.

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[Darfur Network for Human Rights] On January 19, 2026, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a coordinated attack on Al-Gamara village, located in North Kutum locality, North Darfur, resulting in civilian deaths, widespread destruction of property, and mass forced displacement.

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[Dabanga] North Darfur -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has expressed its deep concern about the situation of thousands of civilians who have been cut off from aid in North Darfur. According to OCHA, local partners reported that at least 2,000 families are trapped in the Qardi and Umm Saad valleys in the Karnoi and Umm Baru areas of North Darfur.