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Stephen Nedoroscik’s Teammate Fights Back Against Criticism With Bold Move to Transform Gymnastics
Essentially Sports
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July 2, 2025
Just last year, at the 2024 Olympics, he stood alongside Stephen Nedoroscik to help end Team USA’s long Olympic medal drought, clinching a bronze in the Team Finals. Now, in 2025, under the Ugandan sun, this gymnast has set his sights on a...
African Fish Workers Excluded From International Trade Deals: Report
Inter Press Service
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July 3, 2025
Africa, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition, Food Sustainability, Food Systems, Headlines, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Trade &...
First malaria drug for newborns and young infants expected to be approved in Africa within weeks
CNN
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July 9, 2025
CNN — The approval of the first malaria treatment for newborns and young infants could lead to imminent widespread use in Africa, drugmaker Novartis said Tuesday. The drug, known as Coartem Baby or Riamet Baby in some countries, has been approved...
Groundbreaking Twice-Yearly HIV Prevention Injection Approved by FDA
Newswise
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June 28, 2025
Newswise — Preventative therapies for HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1) have made leaps and bounds over the past decade. A once-daily pill named PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, has been a stalwart for HIV prevention—but only if people...
Music mogul from N.J. planned to build futuristic African city. It will now become $1 billion resort.
NJ.com - New Jersey
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July 10, 2025
An African country has scrapped a legendary musician’s plans to build a futuristic city in his native land. Music mogul Akon, who grew up in Union City and Newark, originally aimed to build a cryptocurrency-themed “Akon City” along Senegal’s coast...
Ailing president Salva Kiir prepares volatile succession
Citizen TV Kenya
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July 3, 2025
With South Sudan's President Salva Kiir undergoing medical tests abroad after years of rumours about his health, analysts say a long-gestating plan has been set in motion to secure his succession. Kiir returned from at least 10 days in the United...
Ailing S.Sudan president prepares volatile succession
Modern Ghana
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With South Sudan's President Salva Kiir undergoing medical tests abroad after years of rumours about his health, analysts say a long-gestating plan has been set in motion to secure his succession. Kiir returned from at least 10 days in the United...
Ailing Salva Kiir prepares volatile succession
The Standard
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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir at KICC, Nairobi. [File, Standard] With South Sudan's President Salva Kiir undergoing medical tests abroad after years of rumours about his health, analysts say a long-gestating plan has been set in motion to...
Rwanda Meets All Global Targets for HIV Control – UNAIDS
KT Press Rwanda
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July 10, 2025
6 UNAIDS chief Winnie Byanyima speaking at the Update launch in South Africa Rwanda has been praised by the United Nations for reaching all the major goals in the fight against HIV. According to a new update released by UNAIDS this July 10, 2025,...
Firm gains ground with voice tech for local accents
Punch
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June 30, 2025
Africa-focused voice technology firm, Intron, is gaining ground in key sectors across the continent with its homegrown artificial intelligence solutions that understand African voices, names, and languages better than global counterparts. The...
Intron expands voice AI across sectors, now serving justice with AI in Africa
Techpoint Africa
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June 30, 2025
The world is embracing more voice-based interactions such as smart assistants, voice searches, and audio transcriptions. However, it is important to note that the linguistic landscape in Africa is the most diverse. Africa is a vast continent with...
The Disconnect Between Climate Goals And Funds For Factory Farms
Forbes
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A pig farm next to the Toachi River in northeast Ecuador.Tex Montes de Oca It’s hard to overstate the importance of rivers like Peripa to residents of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. “For us, losing a river means losing our life, losing...
Trump Is Once Again Threatening to Nuke the Economy
Slate Magazine
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July 12, 2025
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images. Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Hey! It’s the Surge, Slate’s weekly update...
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...
Despite RFK Jr’s hesitancy the HHS is quietly looking at developing two new vaccines
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 8, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
How a Tanzanian startup is moving over $1 billion to Africa and Asia
The Citizen
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Oftentimes, ideas are born to address challenges. What were the early challenges you faced, and what opportunity did you see in the market? I began building NALA in 2017. It wasn’t a smooth ride, I built, failed, rebuilt, and failed again. In...
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From Ghana to Brazil: Decoding PM Modi’s Global South diplomacy
Firstpost
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July 11, 2025
Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a five-nation tour starting with Africa and ending in Africa, with a significant focus on Africa throughout and the Global South as the overarching context. Speaking at the last leg of his tour at the...
NUP picks Mercy Alupo to take on Speaker Among in Bukedea
Independent (Uganda)
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July 1, 2025
Mercy Alupo, aspirant for Bukedea District. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) has officially cleared Mercy Alupo to contest for the Bukedea Woman Member of Parliament seat in the 2026 general elections. Alupo...
AUSSOM issues Statement on Helicopter Crash at Mogadishu Airport
Shabelle Media Network
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July 2, 2025
Mogadishu – On Wednesday at around 7.30 a.m., an African Union helicopter operated by the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) contingent crash-landed just before touching down at the Aden Abdulle International Airport in Mogadishu, while en...
African Union Support And Stabilization Mission In Somalia (AUSSOM) Statement On Helicopter Crash At Mogadishu Airport
MENAFN
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July 2, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) MOGADISHU, Somalia, July 2, 2025/APO Group/ -- On Wednesday at around 7.30 a.m., an African Union helicopter operated by the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) contingent crash-landed just before touching...