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[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville -- Despite important progress towards integrating eye health into primary health care services in African countries, a dire shortage of financial resources, combined with the concentration of scarce human resources in urban areas and low community awareness, continues to threaten the gains.

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[HRW] Tackle UAE's Support to Warring Parties, Support Protection of Civilians

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[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- The condition and exact whereabouts of Cameroon's President Paul Biya remain unclear Thursday, two days after the government was forced to announce Biya was alive in Geneva, Switzerland, in response to rumors on social media that he had died.

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[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Lower turnout suggests voter boycott

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[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to stop outpatient treatment for 5,000 children with acute malnutrition in Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur, Sudan, because the warring parties have blocked deliveries of food, medicines, and other essential supplies for months.

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[Africa CDC] Africa CDC continues to support Mpox response in Africa through the strengthening of diagnostic capacity, surveillance, case detection and management, contact tracing, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) among other efforts. In strengthening laboratory diagnostic capacity for mpox and other pathogens, the Africa CDC supported the Institut National de Santé Publique (INSP) with sample management and referral, biosafety and biosecurity trainings, and enhancing molecular testing and sequencing

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[Business Day Africa] The African Development Bank (AfDB) has named Nnenna Lily Nwabufo as Vice President for Regional Development, Integration, and Business Delivery, effective from October 4.

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[IPS] Chiredzi, Zimbabwe -- Rejoice Muzamani is studying in preparation for her next paper during the end-of-term examinations at Mwenje Primary School in Chiredzi, southeast Zimbabwe.

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[Afropop] The fourth annual Habibi Festival is now underway at Joe's Pub in New York City. The festival highlights the music of the SWANA region (South West Asia and North Africa). This fall's edition runs five nights (October 8-12), with two acts featured each night. Given ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Sudan, pulling off this festival is no easy task. Franco-Egyptian bandleader Mohamed Abozekry ran into travel issues and had to be replaced last minute on the first two nights. Fortunately, the

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[Dabanga] The Trauma Recovery Organization Sudan has issued an appeal to make mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) available to survivors in war-torn Sudan, after 18 months of conflict. In a press statement today to mark World Mental Health Day 2024 #WMHD2024, the organisation calls on the international, regional, and local partners, as well as health and human rights defenders, to make MHPSS available and accessible to the survivors in war-torn Sudan.

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[Dabanga] The commander of the Rapid Support forces, Lt Gen Mohammed Hamdan 'Hemedti' Dagalo, has lashed out at diverse parties within Sudan and abroad, in a 40-minute verbal offensive posted on X (formerly Twitter). The video rant places particular focus on Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, president of the Transitional Sovereign Council (TSC) and commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), whom he accuses of being "held hostage by the Islamist movement", and accuses Sudan's Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim

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[Dabanga] Geneva -- The UN Human Rights Council voted in Geneva to extend the mandate of its fact-finding mission in Sudan, with 23 nations supporting the decision yesterday. Among the backers were the US, EU member states, Ghana, Japan, and South Africa. However, 12 countries, including China, Cuba, Eritrea, and the Gulf states, opposed the extension, while another 12 abstained.

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[The Conversation Africa] Kenya's pursuit of universal health coverage has evolved over three decades through incremental reforms. But by far the boldest step taken so far was in 2022 when the government embarked on an overhaul of the healthcare system under President William Ruto's economic transformation agenda.

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[The New Humanitarian] Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- 'We fear for the future of these abandoned children.'

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[The Conversation Africa] Rikki Stein, born into a regular, middle-class home in the UK, has had what must have seemed an unlikely career. As a music manager he has toured the world in the company of music legends - from the late Nigerian Afrobeat star Fela Kuti to American rockers The Grateful Dead and Morocco's Master Musicians of Joujouka.

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[The Conversation Africa] A new discovery of an ancient farming society at Oued Beht in Morocco fills a centuries-old gap in history. It reveals that, 5,000 years ago, the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was far from a backwater. Rather, it was an integral part of life in the Mediterranean, a region nestled between north Africa, south-western Asia and southern Europe.

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[The Conversation Africa] A week after the opening of their solo exhibition So She Was Turned To a Pillar of Salt at The Project Room in Windhoek, Jo Rogge also facilitated a workshop for aspiring female artists at the gallery. Squeezing in a workshop in the few days they were in Namibia is an affirmation of their commitment to the advancement of art in the country. This is despite having been forced out of Namibia in 2016 when, after 30 years of living and working there, Rogge's work permit was not renewed. They relocated to

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The Tunisian national team continue their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification campaign in a home and away 'double header' against Comoros on Friday and Tuesday.

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Rafael Nadal will retire from tennis after next month's Davis Cup finals

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During an interview from Sudan, UNICEF Representative in the country Sheldon Yett said, “Kids, didn't start this war. They are not the ones who are really fighting this war, and they're not responsible for this war. But they are the victims.”

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The leaders of the three nations, which all have tensions with Ethiopia, agree to greater co-operation.