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Kagame’s Rwanda: The Discomforting Student No Class Can Ignore
KT Press Rwanda
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July 11, 2025
52 What makes Kagame, and Rwanda itself, so discomforting. They are the student who aces the test, but whose performance makes everyone else in the classroom feel exposed — underprepared, slow, or uninterested. In the heart of Nairobi, a group of...
Discontinuing AIDS funding could trigger 4 million deaths by 2029, says report: What are implications for India?
The Indian Express
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July 11, 2025
A new UNAIDS report has cautioned that a permanent discontinuation of support from the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for HIV treatment and prevention could lead to more than four million additional AIDS-related...
Countries Must Urgently Step Up to Transform Their HIV Responses
Tu Salud
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July 11, 2025
UNAIDS [on June 10] launched its 2025 Global AIDS Update, AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform, which shows that a historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress unless countries can make radical shifts to HIV programming...
India, Namibia Call For Fast-tracking Trade Deal With South African Customs Union
StratNews Global
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July 10, 2025
Home Africa India, Namibia Call For Fast-tracking Trade Deal With South African Customs Union India–SACU preferential trade agreement can be a transformative platform for regional trade, investment and value chain integration, PM Modi said India...
Nigeria can't take Venezuelan deportees from US, minister says
BBC
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Yūsuf Akínpẹ̀lú & Natasha BootyBBC News, Lagos & London ShareSave "We already have over 230 million people," says Yusuf Tuggar Nigeria will not bow to pressure from the Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees or third-country prisoners...
AIDS deaths could rise to 4 million by 2029 after Trump’s policy decision, UN report warns
Financial Express
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After decades of progress in the fight against AIDS, a new report warns that millions of lives are now at risk due to a sudden funding crisis. A major chunk of international aid, led by the United States, has been pulled back in the past six...
African Central Banks weigh policy options amid Trump’s tariffs
Engineering News
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July 10, 2025
Key African economies are set to stake out different approaches to interest rates in the coming weeks as they gauge the impact of US President Donald Trump’s new tariff proposals and their domestic influences on their economies and inflation....
US aid funding cuts put HIV prevention and treatment at risk, warns UNAIDS
The Times of India
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In early 2025, the global fight against HIV/AIDS faced a significant setback with the United States of America's decision to halt foreign aid funding for HIV prevention and treatment programs. This move, part of a broader 90-day pause in US...
Attack on Koeberg: How MK's Special Ops unit shattered the apartheid regime's invincibility
Sunday Independent
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July 10, 2025
Blurb: For over three decades, the remarkable story of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Special Operations Unit has remained largely untold. Formed under the direct command of ANC president Oliver Tambo and senior ANC and SACP leader Joe Slovo, this elite unit...
Amid global trade uncertainty, the PM has shifted his language on the US alliance
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 4, 2025
The European Union's leadership has been meeting, at length, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Brussels this week, talking about trade and issues like Ukraine, ahead of an EU-China summit later this month. At the same time, the EU's members...
Too Much: who are all the celebs in the cast of Lena Dunham's Netflix show?
Evening Standard
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July 4, 2025
Think Girls (kind of), only set in London and not starring Dunham as the protagonist. That would be Jessica, a 30-something year old woman who lives in New York, who moves to London for a fresh start. She’s played by American actor Megan Stalter,...
An approach to developing digital identification in the context of DPI
Biometric Update
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July 4, 2025
By Juan Pablo García Cairello, Digital Identity Manager at AGESIC In 2023, G20 leaders defined Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) as “a set of shared, secure, and interoperable digital systems, built on open technologies, to provide equitable...
One of the cheapest ways to save a life is going away (EXTENDED VERSION)
NPR
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July 4, 2025
This episode was first published as a bonus episode for our Planet Money+ listeners. Today, we're making it available for everyone! U.S. aid helped Eswatini and Lesotho, two small countries in southern Africa, in their efforts to treat and curb...
Starlink launches satellite internet service in Chad to boost connectivity
SatelliteProME
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July 4, 2025
The government’s backing of Starlink highlights its belief that the technology can bypass traditional infrastructure barriers limiting internet access in Chad’s remote areas. Starlink has begun operations in Chad after completing the licensing...
Paratus Group launches EduLINK: Affordable Starlink Connectivity for African Schools
Zambian Eye
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July 3, 2025
78 Views Empowering Education, Anywhere – Bridging Africa’s Digital Divide with Starlink LEO Satellite Technology 01 July 2025 – Paratus, Africa’s leading pan-African telecommunications provider and authorised Starlink reseller, proudly announces...
King Mswati III Calls For Recognition Of Women In Governance
Daily Guide
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June 27, 2025
King Mswati III with members of the National House of Chiefs THE KING of Eswatini, His Majesty Mswati III, has called for more recognition to be given to women in both local government and traditional institutions to help accelerate national...
‘It’s back to drug rationing’: The end of HIV was in sight, then came the cuts
Daily News Tanzania
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July 2, 2025
THIS year the world should have been “talking about the virtual elimination of HIV” in the near future. “Within five years,” says Prof Sharon Lewin, a leading researcher in the field. “Now that’s all very uncertain.” Scientific advances had...
New credit card-sized TB test could close the diagnostic gap in HIV hotspots: Study
Medical Dialogues
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July 9, 2025
Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB from traditional tests by eliminating the immune cells relied upon to sound the alarm. While more than 90% of the 2...
SA’s national bird threatened as numbers crash
South Africa Today
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July 1, 2025
The Blue Crane’s population has been declining since 2010, prompting its official status change from “near threatened” to “vulnerable” in the Regional Red Data Book of Birds 2025. Research shows breeding success in the Western Cape’s Overberg...
Blue Crane threatened as numbers crash
BusinessLIVE
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SA’s national bird, the Blue Crane, is in trouble. Until just 15 years ago, numbers of this stately bird — a firm favourite of nature lovers — were increasing well. But research has now shown that the species’ overall population trajectory changed...