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Malian insurtech startup OKO is cultivating a more secure future for African agriculture, securing a substantial six-figure investment round to expand

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[New Times] Dr Jane Goodall, the British primatologist, anthropologist, and conservationist who transformed humanity's understanding of chimpanzees, has died aged 91.

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[Nyasa Times] History does not often offer second chances--but it has for Peter Mutharika. Once dismissed as a failed president, scarred by corruption, arrogance, and electoral shame, he now stands before a rare opportunity to rewrite his legacy. Will he redeem himself and finish as one of Malawi's great leaders, or will he squander the kindness of history? Writes Ephraim Nyondo.

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[HRW] Dangerous Turn Violates Human Rights and Sends Messages to Activists

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[Lesotho Times] The Basotho Covenant Movement (BCM) leader, Dr Tšepo Lipholo's freedom bid has been further postponed, after the prosecution pressed for the recusal of the presiding Senior Resident Magistrate, Thamae Thamae.

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[MSF] Malaria is a major public health issue in Burundi. In this country of around 14 million people, several million cases are reported each year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1,800 malaria-related deaths were recorded in 2023, mainly among children under the age of five.1

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[GroundUp] They also call for the Israeli Medical Association to be suspended from the World Medical Association

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The Moroccan government says it’s ready to address grievances fueling the youth-led protests that have engulfed the country for days. The announcement comes a day after three people were killed by security forces as rioters tried to storm a police station.

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[Daba Finance] TLDR

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[Leadership] A civic group, One Kano Agenda, has expressed concern over the disruption of Nigeria's 65th Independence Day celebration in Kano following the last-minute withdrawal of the state police command from the ceremonial parade.

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[Dabanga] New York / Port Sudan / Cairo / Addis Ababa / El F -- Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil El Tayeb Idris has announced a $100 billion package of investment projects proposed to Saudi Arabia and a fresh review of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) with Ethiopia and Egypt.

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[UN News] UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday warned that civilians in Sudan's El Fasher face the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities, as fighting intensifies around the regional capital of North Darfur, besieged for more than 500 days by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.

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[Afrobarometer] Majority say citizens should have access to information held by public authorities.

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[The Conversation Africa] All that's left of a famous settlement called the Old Location in Windhoek, Namibia, is a graveyard and a monument to remember the residents who were killed while protesting their forced removal in 1959.

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[The Conversation Africa] Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was the second black person in the country (which became Zimbabwe in 1980) to qualify as a lawyer, and co-founded Rhodesia's African Bar Association in 1973.

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[The Conversation Africa] Avocados have been grown in Tanzania since the early 1890s. The global appetite for the creamy fruit, also known as green gold, is booming. The industry's market value was over US$6.5 billion in 2020, reached US$16.24 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach US$23 billion in 2029.

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[The Conversation Africa] Television nature programmes and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of evolution through natural selection, Charles Darwin, warned that evolution would produce quirks and "blunders" that reflect a lineage's history.

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President Rajoelina's move fails to quell the protest movement that is now threatening his own position.

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NEW YORK, United States of America, 02nd October 2025-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- On the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, African

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A US immigration judge has denied a bid for asylum from Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a proxy for the partisan power struggle over immigration policy. Garcia has 30 days to appeal the decision, but may be deported to Uganda.