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Climate-Resilient Coffee
Living on Earth
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Komal Sable says the excelsa coffee plant is more climate resilient than the arabica and robusta species. (Photo: South India Coffee Company) Research has long shown that the top two coffee species, Arabica and Robusta, are vulnerable to climate...
List of 11 Kenyan towns where petrol retails at over KSh 200, diesel KSh 190 after EPRA hike
TUKO
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July 18, 2025
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) released pump prices for the period between July 15 and August 14, 2025 EPRA increased the retail prices per litre of super petrol to KSh 186.31, diesel to KSh 171.58, in Nairobi and KSh 183.02...
100 Days of UEDCL: Big promises, blackouts, and boiling frustrations
Independent (Uganda)
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July 10, 2025
UEDCL engineers delivering transformers on site. PHOTO URN Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) marks 100 days since taking over the national power distribution network from Umeme, the...
Zohran Mamdani Raises Hackles of India’s Hindu Right-Wing
The Diplomat
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July 9, 2025
Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s victory in the recent Democratic primaries for the upcoming New York mayoral elections was no small feat. The 33-year-old Ugandan-born son of Indian origin parents — his mother is the acclaimed film director Mira Nair, and...
Housing Finance, Mama Tendo Foundation launch national parenting symposium
Independent (Uganda)
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July 16, 2025
Ms.Elon Kabakama Kabarungi(2nd right)Corporate Communications Manager from Housing Finance Bank pose for a group photo with Mama Tendo CEO Catherine and other partners at the launch of the Mama Tendo Parent. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |...
Plantains and bananas look similar, but are 'actually pretty different.' Here's how.
AOL
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If you're new to the world of plantains, we've got everything you need to know here. And if you're a tried and true plantain fan, stick around for some new recipe ideas. Experts believe plantains originated in Southeast Asia, thought many of the...
How to Plan Your Dream African Safari
Go World Travel Magazine - Colorado
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July 18, 2025
From game drives to gorilla trekking, Africa offers safari experiences that will change your perspective forever. Photo by Canva I am a freelance writer and live in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya on the shores of Lake Naivasha. I grew up in South...
Novartis' malaria drug for babies wins world-first approval
Fierce Pharma
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July 8, 2025
Novartis and a Swiss nonprofit have made history, scoring the world’s first approval for a medicine to treat babies who are infected with malaria. Switzerland’s health regulator has signed off on Coartem Baby for infants who weigh between 2 and 5...
Russian Info Ops; Attritional Battles in Sudan: Africa File, July 17, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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To receive the weekly Africa File or tri-weekly Congo War Security Review via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on X, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. Contributors: Calvin Hodges and Ellery White Key Takeaways: Russia. The Kremlin will likely take...
Global experts convene in Nairobi for Clean-Air Forum 2025
The Standard
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July 11, 2025
A heavy cloud of smoke emanates from a salt factory at Malindi's Gongoni in Kilifi County on Thursday,016th March,2017. Area locals said the smoke from the nearby by salt factory spreads around the sky in Gongoni township causing heavy pollution...
Company news: Upstate’s Maryellen Sheridan leads pediatric nursing group
Syracuse.com - New York
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July 3, 2025
Maryellen Sheridan, a pediatric clinical nurse specialist at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital, has become president of the 1,000-member American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association Inc. Founded in 1992, the APSNA aims to shape pediatric...
What is a plantain? Hint: They're not the same as bananas.
USA Today - Virginia
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If you're new to the world of plantains, we've got everything you need to know here. And if you're a tried and true plantain fan, stick around for some new recipe ideas. Experts believe plantains originated in Southeast Asia, thought many of the...
The City We Can Call Ours
CounterPunch
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July 18, 2025
The deafening racket we’re getting here in Spain from US politics or, more like it, from Donald Trump’s chaotic and volatile presidency, tends to drown out other signals we’re getting. In this situation of the Trump administration’s blind...
JD Vance: Rekindling statesmanship to secure America’s golden future
The Blaze
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July 17, 2025
California generally and the Claremont Institute in particular have produced some of the most profound and revolutionary conservative thinkers of the last half-century. And for a great many of them, it’s because they understood what’s at stake if...
Yaounde Int'l War College flags off 20th anniversary celebration
The Guardian Post
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This was during a ceremony which took the guise of a cultural exhibition. It was the Deputy Defense Chief of Staff, Major General Chemo Hector, who launched the festivities. Exhibitors from more than 26 countries including France and Cameroon are...
Gulu City Council intensifies inspection of building plans
Independent (Uganda)
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July 11, 2025
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu City Council has over the past two weeks intensified efforts to enforce mandatory building plan approvals to curb illegal construction and promote orderly urban development. As Gulu City continues its rapid...
All the Worst People Are Losing It Over Zohran Mamdani’s Win
Jacobin
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For leftists, there is no more heartening political development in the United States right now than Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s mayoral primary last month — a victory that offers hope for a more livable working-class future and shows...
South Africa gets R520m to buy the anti-HIV jab — but there’s a snag
BusinessLIVE
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Will the US help to pay for the jab? The fund’s offer follows its announcement on July 9 that it has the “ambition” to finance enough lenacapavir for 2-million HIV-negative people — in the low- and middle-income countries it supports — over the...
Expert Comment: What is the role of community energy systems in achieving universal energy access?
University of Oxford News
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July 11, 2025
In the UK, we often take access to energy for granted. Yet it underpins virtually every aspect of daily life—from food and healthcare, to communication and transport. Globally, it enables sustainable development by improving educational outcomes,...
Tanzania hosts second session of Cashew MTP in East Africa
News Ghana
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July 18, 2025
Source: African Cashew Alliance (ACA) East Africa marked another milestone in cashew sector development as the second session of the 20th Cashew Master Training Programme (MTP) concludes in Mtwara, Tanzania. Held from 23rd to 27th June 2025, the...