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[ENA] There is a familiar pattern in the way many Western media organizations report on Africa.

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[ENA] Addis Ababa, May 31, 2026 --The past eight years in Ethiopia have been defined by a complex reality marked by sweeping institutional reforms, major infrastructure achievements, and far-reaching national transformation, alongside significant challenges. Yet much of the international and domestic discourse surrounding the country has often focused disproportionately on its vulnerabilities while overlooking substantial progress made across multiple sectors.

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[RFI] Ethiopia goes to the polls on Monday in an election which is expected to return Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party to power, but has been marked by instability, restricted voting and questions over whether the vote can challenge the status quo.

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[UN News] Community trust will be decisive in bringing the rapidly evolving Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo under control, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday, as health teams race to contain the emergency that has spread across multiple provinces and into neighbouring Uganda.

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[The Conversation Africa] The first shipment of Lenacapavir, a long-acting injectable that prevents HIV with two shots a year, arrived in South Africa from the United States in early April 2026. Clinical trials showed close to 100% efficacy. The rollout, expected to begin in June 2026, prioritises adolescent girls and young women, pregnant and breastfeeding women, transgender people, sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people who inject drugs.

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[RFI] UN health chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Saturday visited Bunia in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - where a severe Ebola outbreak has been declared.

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[UN News] Nearly 10,000 cases of conflict-related sexual violence were recorded worldwide last year - more than double the previous year's figure - as rape, sexual slavery and abduction were deployed as weapons of war across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Caribbean.

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[RFI] As Senegal's former president Abdoulaye Wade turns 100 on Friday, RFI looks back on the life of a man whose century has spanned opposition, imprisonment, triumph and everything in between.

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Filmmaker Meji Alabi directs a landmark BBC Africa Eye documentary about Nigeria's civil war.

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Luca Zidane - son of France legend Zinedine Zidane - is named in Algeria's squad for the upcoming World Cup.

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Netsanet Sori is bringing a flavour of the farm where she grew up to her new home 4,000 miles away.

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Munster's United Rugby Championship title hopes are ended in ruthless fashion by the Bulls, who score six tries to overpower the Irish province in their quarter-final in Pretoria.

Design Indaba  

Designing Flood Resistant Cities

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Designing Flood Resistant Cities

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Design Indaba drives a better world through creativity with its online design publication, annual festival and other "design activism" projects.

Design Indaba  

Design Indaba drives a better world through creativity with its online design publication, annual festival and other "design activism" projects.

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Radical Empathy

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Radical Empathy

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Spanish engineering company IDOM launches MARMOK-A-5, a floating wave energy converter.

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Spanish engineering company IDOM launches MARMOK-A-5, a floating wave energy converter.

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Techno-progressivism