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[Daba Finance] Botswana Innovation Fund and Scalar International launched the Scalar Botswana Innovation Program, a 12-month initiative to support climate and digital technology startups.

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[Daba Finance] Twiva has secured investment from the Jobtech Alliance to expand its platform that connects brands with creators through performance-based digital commerce.

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[Daba Finance] The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has listed an actively managed exchange-traded fund focused on artificial intelligence, giving local investors access to global companies in the sector.

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[Daba Finance] GoSwap raised seed funding from Azur Innovation Fund to scale its battery-swapping network for electric scooters across urban centres.

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[Daba Finance] Ndovu Wealth has launched the Kibaba Multi-Asset Special Fund, a collective investment scheme designed to give investors diversified exposure across global asset classes.

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[Daba Finance] Tony Elumelu Foundation selected 3,200 entrepreneurs across Africa for its 12th Entrepreneurship Programme, with each participant set to receive $5,000 in grant funding and business support.

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[Daba Finance] littlefish raised $9.5 million in a Series A round to expand its merchant operating system across African markets. The round was led by Partech, with participation from TLcom Capital, Flourish Ventures and Proparco.

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[Dabanga] Wad Medani -- Prices of staple crops have risen sharply in Sudan's El Gezira state, as a significant reduction in cultivated land and ongoing agricultural disruptions deepen concerns over food security in the region.

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[Dabanga] Delling / El Fasher / Geisan -- The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) say they repelled a major assault yesterday by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied fighters from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement North led by Abdelaziz El Hilu on the city of Delling, even as local sources warn the situation remains critical and civilians continue to flee escalating violence across the region.

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[The Conversation Africa] In rural sub-Saharan Africa, access to clean drinking water often depends on a simple technology: the handpump.

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[The Conversation Africa] South Africa introduced a new amendment to the parental leave policy in October 2025. The aim was to provide equitable rights for all parents. Noreth Muller-Kluits, a disability researcher and social worker by training, examines the policy as it affects people living with disabilities. Her recent work includes formulating a guide to support reproductive healthcare for women with disabilities.

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[The Conversation Africa] West Africa as a region has long had one of the most mobile populations in the world. Since 1979, the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has allowed citizens of its member states to travel freely across borders without visas.

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[The Conversation Africa] Africa holds abundant private savings, but much of it remains informal. As a result, its contribution to development financing is limited.

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[RFI] Lagos, Nigeria, June 1993. Political upheaval grips the country as it votes in its first general election since the 1983 military coup. It's against this backdrop that Akinola Davies Jr set his award-winning debut film My Father's Shadow. Alongside hopes for a new nation are the trials and tribulations of an ordinary father and his sons - a story of love, loss and absence.

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[RFI] Algeria announced three days of national mourning on Sunday after the death of 84-year-old Liamine Zeroual, the former soldier who served as the country's president from 1994 to 1999.

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[RFI] Egypt will impose emergency energy-saving measures this weekend as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drives up fuel costs and raises fears of an energy crisis.

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[Dabanga] El Gezira / Khartoum / Merowe -- Sudan's El Gezira state, once a leading centre for medical care after Khartoum, is facing a near total collapse of its health system, forcing residents to travel hundreds of kilometres for even basic tests, according to statements made to Radio Dabanga.

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[Dabanga] Cairo -- Rashid Mohamed Abbas, a Sudanese resident in Egypt, died on Monday following his detention by Egyptian authorities. His death marks the sixth recorded case of a Sudanese national dying in Egyptian custody in the past 45 days.

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[RFI] Russian operatives worked in Chad in 2024 to pull the country closer to Moscow and away from Western influence, internal documents reviewed by an international media consortium reveal. The papers show efforts to build ties with Chadian authorities, spread anti-Western narratives and target opposition figure Succès Masra during a tense election year.

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[RFI] As Pope Leo XIV prepares to visit Equatorial Guinea next month, the country is reportedly relying on members of the public to help finance the trip - including by having money deducted from their salaries.

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[RFI] Thirty years after seven French monks were kidnapped and killed in the Atlas mountains at the height of Algeria's civil war, a lawyer for the victims' relatives tells RFI an official investigation has yet to uncover the full truth.