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Africa's top health agency says around 246 cases have been reported.

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Scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a genetically engineered algae capable of removing microplastics from polluted water.

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Scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a genetically engineered algae capable of removing microplastics from polluted water.

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[Liberian Investigator] MONROVIA -- The ink was barely dry on his acquittal when the government came for Samuel D. Tweah Jr. again.

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[Vanguard] The League of Legal Practitioners of Nigeria, yesterday, questioned the fairness and evidential basis of the ongoing United Kingdom trial involving former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, insisting that the case must be determined strictly on credible evidence and proof beyond reasonable doubt.

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[UN News] Decades of gains in the fight against AIDS are under growing threat as donor funding declines and community-based health services collapse in some of the world's most vulnerable countries, the head of the joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS warned on Thursday.

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[IPS] Bulawayo, Zimbabwe -- Agriculture sustains millions of people in Zimbabwe, serving as a vital source of both food and income. But climate-related pressures affecting land, crops, rainfall patterns, and increasing pest outbreaks are threatening smallholder farmers' harvests, leaving them food insecure.

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King Charles III marks 50 years of The King’s Trust at Buckingham Palace, celebrating its support for 1.5 million disadvantaged young people worldwide.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping accompanies US counterpart Donald Trump on a walk through the gardens of Zhongnanhai, a central leadership compound next to Beijing's Forbidden City.

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[allAfrica] The central African nation of Chad has entered a phase of acute structural vulnerability that puts it and the wider on a collision path with state collapse. Too long ignored by regional actors and the international community, who have wrongly interpreted prowess on the battlefield with internal stability, the question is no longer simply whether the government of President Mahamat Deby Itno is authoritarian. It is. It is whether he can hold the country together at all.

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[Nyasa Times] What was supposed to be a solemn national commemoration of Malawi's founding president Hastings Kamuzu Banda descended into chaos and deep political division on Thursday after police fired tear gas to disperse supporters of the Malawi Congress Party who were accompanying former president Lazarus Chakwera to Kamuzu Mausoleum in Lilongwe.

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South Africa’s ruling African National Congress gathered for a key meeting as President Cyril Ramaphosa faces renewed impeachment pressure linked to the controversial Farmgate cash-heist scandal.

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[Shabelle] Nairobi -- Kenyan President William Ruto said Thursday that renewed instability in Somalia had forced Nairobi to keep its border with neighboring Somalia closed, nearly 15 years after the frontier was first shut.

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[Premium Times] Mr Makinde made the declaration on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, during a joint mega rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Allied Peoples' Movement (APM).

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[Vanguard] ... as NCDC warns of increasing fatality rate

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[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa has, in terms of section 91(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, has removed Minister of Social Development, Sisisi Tolashe, from her position.

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[New Times] President Paul Kagame has criticised the use of sanctions in global politics, saying they are applied unfairly and used as tools of pressure on weaker nations.

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Morocco and Syria have taken a major step toward restoring relations, as Syrian Foreign Minister Assaad al-Chaibani visited Rabat for talks with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. The visit marks the first by a senior Syrian official to Morocco since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

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[263Chat] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza as Zimbabwe's new Chief Justice, succeeding outgoing top judge Luke Malaba who steps down after reaching the constitutional retirement age.