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IGAD’s Prepare Project to Change Pandemic Preparedness and Response Across the Region
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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August 30, 2025
By Catherine Nambi In a significant step toward enhancing regional health security, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) with funding from the Pandemic Fund has launched a three-year Preparedness for Pandemic Response PREPARE...
Why the U.S. Is Weighing Somaliland Recognition
Oil Price
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August 29, 2025
By Editorial Dept - Aug 29, 2025, 8:00 AM CDT As we digest U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s call for the U.S. to recognize Somaliland as an independent country, the fact is, Washington can get what it needs in Somaliland without recognition and without...
Science AFP Geological report taken out of context to claim that new ocean has emerged in East Africa
Yahoo News
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Last May, a US magazine reported on a geological change taking place in Africa that could be very slowly splitting the continent apart. A video post recently circulating on Facebook uses a screenshot from the report to claim that a new ocean has...
Govt to begin paying SHA contributions for poor Kenyans: President Ruto
Capital FM Kenya
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August 29, 2025
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 29 – The government will begin paying Social Health Authority (SHA) contributions for Kenyans who cannot afford, President William Ruto has announced. The President said the initiative follows the completion of a successful...
Commentary: The bigger story behind Modi’s China trip
Channel News Asia
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August 29, 2025
India’s relations with China should be considered in that same light. The ongoing diplomatic consultations are driven by the desire to de-escalate the border dispute, which threatened to boil over in 2020 and 2021. But lowering the tensions does...
Tedagua hits one billion cubic meters at Beni Saf desalination plant, supplying one million people
Smart Water Magazine
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August 29, 2025
In November 2009, Tedagua commissioned the desalination plant in the city of Beni Saf, a coastal region in southwestern Algeria. With a production capacity of 200,000 cubic meters per day, the facility supplies drinking water to approximately one...
Gov't to commence paying SHA contributions for needy Kenyans: Ruto
Citizen TV Kenya
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August 29, 2025
The government will begin paying Social Health Authority (SHA) contributions for Kenyans who cannot afford, President William Ruto has announced. The President said the initiative follows the completion of a successful identification process. He...
INVITATION FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)
Capital
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August 17, 2025
DESCRIPTION: Provision of Overland (cross-border) Transport Services from Djibouti to Ethiopia CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF EOIs: 22 August 2025, 12:00 hrs REFERENCE: EOI-ETCO-LOG-2025-08 The United Nations World Food Programme in Ethiopia (WFP...
Ruto highlights key reforms in health, employment, and infrastructure
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
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August 29, 2025
The government will begin paying Social Health Authority (SHA) contributions for Kenyans who cannot afford, President William Ruto has announced. The President said the initiative follows the completion of a successful identification process. He...
Ruto: State to cater for Kenyans unable to pay SHA contributions
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
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August 29, 2025
The Government will begin paying Social Health Authority (SHA) contributions for Kenyans who cannot afford, President William Ruto has announced. The President said the initiative follows the completion of a successful identification process. He...
Green Investment Key to Unlocking Africa's Potential Amid Climate Challenges: Planning, Dev't Minister
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, August 29, 2025 (ENA)—Unlocking green investment is vital for Africa, which has been emerging as a land of opportunity and hope for investors amid climate challenges, Planning and Development Minister Fitsum Assefa said. “Africa is...
Trump cuts deals with dictators to take his deportees
People's World
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August 28, 2025
Deportees are marched onto a cargo plane at a U.S. airport in this photo posted by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. | @PressSec / via X In addition to all his other attacks on the foreign-born in the United States, President Donald...
Is the cautious China-Iran military cooperation at a turning point?
Atlantic Council
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August 29, 2025
In mid-August, Israeli media Yedioth Ahronoth reported—citing anonymous Western intelligence sources—that China “is now actually rebuilding” Iran’s missile arsenal after the Twelve Day War between Iran, Israel, and the United States. The reporting...
Kiir eyes aviation partnership with Ethiopian Airlines
Sudans Post
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August 28, 2025
An Ethiopian Airlines plane pictured at Bole International Airport. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – President Salva Kiir has set his sights on strengthening South Sudan’s aviation sector through a proposed partnership with Ethiopian Airlines, as part of...
WADDUP DOE? AfroFuture Detroit 2025 Takes Over The ‘D’ & The Diaspora Showed Up And Out
Black Enterprise
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August 28, 2025
by Keka Araújo August 28, 2025 AfroFuture Detroit 2025 is a clear statement that Detroit, a historical center for change, is now at the forefront of shaping a future where technology and identity are celebrated together. The AfroFuture Detroit...
US deports more migrants to Africa
News Tribune - Missouri
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August 29, 2025
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- Rwanda has become the third African nation to receive deportees from the United States as the Trump administration expands its program to send migrants to countries they have no ties with. A Rwandan government...
Kenya Police eye Kagame Cup test ahead of CAF Champions League
Star
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CECAFA Competitions Director Yussud Mossi/ CHARLENE MALWA Kenya Police CEO Japheth Ochutsi believes the upcoming Cecafa Kagame Cup will provide the perfect build-up to the CAF Champions League, set for September 2-15 in Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania....
El caso de Ábrego García revela cómo Trump convirtió la deportación en un arma política
KESQ-TV - California
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August 28, 2025
Análisis por Juan Carlos López, CNN en Español Imagina que vives en Estados Unidos. Eres inmigrante, pero llevas más tiempo allí que en tu país de origen. Te detienen, cualquiera sea el motivo. Pero tu destino no es una cárcel estadounidense. Es...
Ethiopia on alert as Egyptian forces plan entry into Aussom
GhanaWeb
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August 28, 2025
Ethiopia says it hopes to avoid confrontation with Egyptian troops, who are preparing to join Somalia’s AU-backed foreign mission against Al-Shabaab, even as it warned it will be uncomfortable with any overreach. It was long expected that Egyptian...
The bigger story behind Modi’s China trip – and it’s not India’s tensions with Trump
The Interpreter
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August 29, 2025
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to travel to China at the weekend to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. In the United States, this revived India-China dialogue – it will be the first visit by Modi to China...