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[allAfrica] Harare -- Water supplies are under increasing strain all around the world. As populations grow and cities expand, fresh water sources are depleted or contaminated. This is the case in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, where the availability of clean water has steadily decreased over the years and this long unresolved water crisis is a ticking time bomb of magnified health risks for residents.

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[Afrobarometer] Almost half of citizens consider it likely that a survivor will be criticised or shamed if she reports to the authorities.

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[VOA] Kampala -- Police in Uganda are investigating the cause of a fire at a boarding school for visually impaired students that killed 11 girls, ages four to 13.

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[VOA] Gaborone -- Africa's leading tourism operators are meeting in Botswana for talks on reviving the industry after the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Intra-African travel is at the top of the agenda at the three-day meeting, which has attracted more than 450 delegates from 43 countries.

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[Africa Renewal] - deconstructing gender roles in Mozambique

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[263Chat] In a report titled Civic Society Contestation Ahead of 2023, the Institute said the reforms have been introduced through amendments of the Constitution to narrow participation of political opponents.

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[The Herald] SADC chairperson and President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, has reiterated calls for the removal of illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by some Western countries saying they push a negative perception about the country and cut it off from global financial markets.

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[The New Humanitarian] Sanoyea, Liberia -- 'The war is over. The man has apologised, and I have forgiven him.'

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[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (ZIDA) has called upon investors to inject funds in medicinal cannabis for the sector's growth and sustainability.

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[263Chat] The ERC statement comes on the back of incidences of intimidation and violence in the just ended by-elections held in Insiza and Matobo.

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[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's tourism industry has been rocked by the murder of a German visitor during an attempted robbery. The development resulted in negative media publicity, with a potentially adverse impact on the country's image as a safe tourist destination. This comes at a time when the sector is recovering from the devastating effects of the COVID pandemic. The Conversation Africa's political editor Thabo Leshilo asked Kaitano Dube, an expert in ecotourism, about tourism's place in South Africa's economy.

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[The Conversation Africa] The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) has changed the world as we know it. Although new vaccines and antiviral treatments have brought hope, the pesky virus has continued to mutate and evade us.

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[The Conversation Africa] People's responses to large infrastructure projects - railways, bridges, highways - are rarely neutral. To some, these projects represent powerful social and political promises of transformative change and a brighter future. To others, they mean evictions and the disruption of livelihoods.

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[SAnews.gov.za] Economists have called for today's Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to focus on strengthening the country's debt containment efforts.

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Nozuko Mzamo, Social Investment Specialist at Tshikululu Social Investments unpacks how investing in the employability of young people remains a powerful lever for creating pathways into the economy and should be viewed as critical to ESG agendas.

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[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

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[VOA] Johannesburg -- South Africa's presidential spokesman said Tuesday that the first round of peace talks on Ethiopia's Tigray region have begun. Few other details have been released, and so far there has been no media access to the venue, at an unknown location in South Africa.

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This year's climate summit comes amid spiralling energy costs and diplomatic tensions.

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[New Zimbabwe] The anti-sanctions provincial campaign scheduled for Bulawayo Tuesday attracted a paltry crowd with ordinary citizens and opposition parties boycotting the event.

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The former leader further said he held the international community responsible for the situation in the Sahel following their military intervention in Libya.