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[UN News] A rising trend towards government-enforced internet shutdowns - with at least 300 incidents in more than 54 countries over the last two years - is prompting renewed warnings from the UN about the threat these digital blackouts pose to freedom of expression, access to information and human rights.

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[Africa CDC] Africa has officially lifted Mpox as a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security following recommendations from the Africa CDC Emergency Consultative Group. The decision highlights the continent's strengthened health security, effective leadership, regional cooperation, and successful international partnerships in managing complex public health challenges.

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[Premium Times] The final will be remembered not only for silverware, but for a defining debate about officiating, emotion, and where protest ends, and passion begins in African football's biggest moments

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[Premium Times] According to the Kebbi State Nutrition Office, 608 severely malnourished children died between January and September 2025 across 21 treatment centres in five local government areas.

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[Premium Times] The coalition of civil society groups described the demolitions as part of a systemic attack on the urban poor, carried out without consultation, compensation, or resettlement.

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[GroundUp] Hundreds of homes were damaged by floods in uMshwati in November

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[GroundUp] 73% of water authorities in South Africa have "poor" or "critical" water systems

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[GroundUp] The rules make it almost impossible to run an informal business legally

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto is scheduled to engage with graduate interns recently onboarded under the government's Affordable Housing Program on Friday.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The High Court has ordered the immediate release and customs clearance of all pending and incoming shipments of duty-free Grade 1 milled white rice, in a landmark decision that places national food security and the constitutional right to food at the forefront of government action.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Raila Odinga Junior has intensified efforts to address the chronic water shortage in Kibra when on Thursday he led a delegation of local leaders to Nairobi City Hall for discussions with county officials aimed at finding practical solutions to the crisis.

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[Addis Standard] Mekelle -- Human Rights First has raised concern over what it described as a deteriorating human rights situation in the Tigray region, citing multiple allegations of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and physical harm.

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Guinea-Bissau has halted a US-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on newborns, pending an emergency ethical review. The country’s health minister says a six-member ethics committee never met before the study was approved, a major red flag.

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Some 160 people are believed to be missing after attackers raided three churches in a Nigerian village on Sunday.

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[Darfur Network for Human Rights] On January 19, 2026, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a coordinated attack on Al-Gamara village, located in North Kutum locality, North Darfur, resulting in civilian deaths, widespread destruction of property, and mass forced displacement.

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[Dabanga] North Darfur -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has expressed its deep concern about the situation of thousands of civilians who have been cut off from aid in North Darfur. According to OCHA, local partners reported that at least 2,000 families are trapped in the Qardi and Umm Saad valleys in the Karnoi and Umm Baru areas of North Darfur.

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[Maka] Angola has yet to experience a real democratic movement at all. What exists instead is a formal democratic Constitution that permits to entrench an increasingly authoritarian system of power, sustained by the absence of real political democratic alternation, weakened institutions and a systematically shrinking civic space. This system is usually referred to as an anocracy, combining elements typical of democracies with dictatorial practices. These systems are inherently unstable and prone to arbitrariness.

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[Dabanga] Amsterdam -- The ongoing war in Sudan, which began on April 15, 2023, has left devastating and catastrophic effects on the lives of Sudanese people, particularly on the lives and futures of young people. In an extensive survey conducted by Radio Dabanga - marking over 1,000 days since the start of the war - a group of youth leaders confirmed that the conflict, now nearing its third year, has disrupted education and employment opportunities, increased unemployment, and worsened living conditions. This has left young

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[Dabanga] Amsterdam -- Save the Children International has highlighted an unprecedented education crisis in Sudan, where more than eight million children have been deprived of schooling during what they describe as the world's longest school closure, lasting 484 days, amidst a war that has devastated health and educational infrastructure. Darfur and West Kordofan are among the hardest hit, with the majority of schools disrupted.

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[Dabanga] Khartoum -- Report by: Amira Mahjoub / Al-Alaq Center for Press Services for Sudan Media Forum Joint Newsroom

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[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In early 2026, Saudi Arabia issued an unusually forthright public accusation against the United Arab Emirates (UAE)--a fellow Gulf Arab state and former coalition partner in the Yemen conflict--alleging that Abu Dhabi had undermined its national security. The language employed by Riyadh is among the most direct it has ever used toward the UAE, signaling deepening unease within the Saudi leadership over Abu Dhabi's increasingly autonomous foreign policy.