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Professor Tolullah Oni: The Nigerian Public Health Physician Redefining Urban Health and Building Sustainable African Cities

Western urban development models frequently treat African cities as emergency zones requiring reactive medical aid, ignoring ...
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South Africans Take To The Streets After Nine Women Were Murdered Near Johannesburg; Here Is What You Need To Understand

South Africans organized public demonstrations following the discovery of nine women killed near Johannesburg. The deaths ...
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The US Gives UN One Year To Shut Down Peacekeeping Support In Somalia, And Here Is What You Need To Understand

The United States have given the United Nations a 12-month extension to wind down its support for African Union peacekeepers ...
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Top 10 Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Companies in Africa in 2026

For decades, Africa imported over 80% to 90% of its pharmaceutical needs. But today, due to post-pandemic supply chain ...
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Kenya Just Won The Right To Host The World Athletics Championships, And It Took The Sport Four Decades To Let Africa In

Nairobi just beat London, Munich, and Rome for the right to host track and field's biggest stage. The real story is not that ...
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Rediet Abebe: The Ethiopian Computer Scientist Who Broke Harvard's Systemic Barrier While Building AI Tools Against Global Poverty

Why did it take until 2019 for one of Harvard's oldest fellowship societies to induct its first female computer scientist, ...
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Nigeria Just Cut Off South Africa Over Dead Nationals, And Here's Everything You Need To Understand

Two more Nigerians are dead in South Africa within days of each other, and Nigeria's parliament responded by cutting off ...
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British Airways Is Returning To Tanzania After A 13-Year Absence, And Here Is What You Need To Understand

British Airways suspended its routes to Tanzania in 2013 over commercial viability. The carrier is now launching direct flights from London Gatwick to Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. Here is what actually ...
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Aliko Dangote Wants 10 Million Ordinary Africans To Own A Piece Of His Refinery. Here's The Question He's Not Answering

Africa's richest man opened the doors to his $47 billion refinery empire this week, and he wants regular people, not just banks and hedge funds, to walk through them. The catch sits in the fine print, ...
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Husband of Tanzania’s President Has Died, And It Hits On A Big Reality About Women In African Power

Tanzania Vice President broke the news that Hafidh Ameir Hassan, husband to President Samia Suluhu Hassan, passed away while ...
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7 Ways Ghanaian Professor Adams Bodomo Is Rewriting What We Know About Africa, And Global Black History

If you only look at European or American cities when you think about the African diaspora, you miss half the story. Meet ...
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The US Just Sanctioned South Africa Over Their Own Land Reform Laws. Here's The Question Nobody In Washington Wants To Answer

The Trump administration just told South Africa's government that trying to fix apartheid's unfinished business counts as racism now. Actual visas are being pulled over it. Here's what happened, and ...