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'Comrade Chris': GOP links Democratic candidates to socialist NYC mayor nominee
Fox News
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Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on how Zohran Mamdani's Democratic primary victory is exposing the party's division as his political allies now look to primary House Democrats. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News...
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...
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...
Researchers explain spike in seasonal flu, cough cases
GhanaWeb
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June 27, 2025
While respiratory illnesses such as flu and cough affect Ugandans year-round, researchers have identified specific months when cases tend to spike, often disrupting work and general well-being. A review of influenza data by Prof Fred...
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...
Kunihira unopposed in NRM Primaries for Female Workers MP contest
Independent (Uganda)
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July 1, 2025
Female Workers Representative Agnes Kunihira Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Electoral Commission Chairperson, Dr. Tanga Odoi, has declared Agnes Kunihira Abwooli unopposed in the party primaries for the...
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...
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...
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...
Political analyst Herman Manyora lands top job
The Standard
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Prof. Herman Manyora Communications Lead Researcher,CPS Research International,Most of the international students in Kenyan Universities comes from East and Central African Countries at over 70% the leading country being Uganda at 19.9% followed...
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...
Kenneth Jogo sheds tears as voters fund campaign
Independent (Uganda)
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July 2, 2025
Jeneth Gogo shedding tears as voters put money in a basket to help him buy fuel. PHOTO URN Rubanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenneth Jogo Biryabarema, a contestant in the National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries for Rubanda East County...
Rockefeller Foundation Supports BRAC To Empower Smallholder Farmers Across Asia and Africa
The Rockefeller Foundation
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July 2, 2025
Through the 300,000 USD grant, BRAC will develop a program that aims to empower three million women smallholder farmers across Bangladesh, Liberia, Tanzania, and Uganda to lift themselves and their families out of vulnerability by 2030. BANGKOK |...
Institute intensify efforts to eradicate poverty in East Africa
The Standard
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The new Executive director and CEO of African Institute for capacity development Prof James Njiru (left) is congratulated by the outgoing boss Prof Dominic Byarugaba of Uganda at the organisation headquarters located at JKUAT in Juja. [Collins...
The European Court’s Merits Judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia: As Good as It Gets (Almost)
EJIL: Talk!
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July 10, 2025
In a landmark ruling, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights yesterday delivered its much-anticipated merits judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (nos. 8019/16, 43800/14, 28525/20 and 11055/22). The judgment is here;...
Why gorillas might be spending more time in trees than on land, new study reveals
The Times of India
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Researchers have discovered that gorillas spend more time in trees than previously assumed. Western and Bwindi mountain gorillas in Gabon and Uganda found that even large males, weighing up to 170kg, used trees substantially. Female gorillas spent...
'We Just Watch The Sick Die': Amnesty International Exposes Conditions In Benue IDP Camps, Says Gunmen Displaced Over 510,000
Sahara Reporters
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The North Central Nigerian state of Benue is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis as escalating violence has displaced more than half a million people, Amnesty International warned on Thursday. In a press release issued on July 10, 2025, the...
Are East African govts uniting?
Business Ghana
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Kenya has been hit by a recent wave of repression, tarnishing its reputation as a beacon of democracy in East Africa. Critics fear that it is sliding down the path of her neighbours - Uganda and Tanzania, both of which are notorious for cracking...
Kids and Diabetes in Schools launched
Business Ghana
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The Ministry of Health (MoH) has launched an initiative to stem the rising prevalence of diabetes among children and teenagers in Accra yesterday. The "Kids and Diabetes in Schools (KiDS) Programme" is a key component of a broader Affordable...