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Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa is affected
The Conversation
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July 2, 2025
A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world’s people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
Nigeria, SA top African countries with most mobile phone ownership, usage
Business Day
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June 19, 2025
In Nigeria, South Africa, and other African countries, mobile connectivity is driving access to business, education, healthcare, and digital banking, transforming the way millions live and work, according to a report by The African Exponent. The...
Debt, deficits and dilemmas
Weekly Cutting Edge
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July 1, 2025
Pakistan’s fiscal position reveals a precarious blend of mounting debt, dwindling export capacity, and deep-rooted structural flaws. With external debt servicing consuming nearly half of its export earnings and economic reforms hanging by a...
Expanding fiscal space for priority investments
The Brookings Institution
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II. Measuring fiscal space Fiscal space is sometimes measured simply as discretionary fiscal spending—the amount of revenue and borrowing capacity that is left over when non-discretionary spending has been subtracted out. Non-discretionary...
See Earth’s Forests as Never Before in Biomass Satellite’s First Images
Scientific American
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July 1, 2025
See Earth’s Forests as Never Before in Biomass Satellite’s First Images New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote...
Mountain gorillas climb trees despite their massive size
Earth.com
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Gorillas, often thought of as ground dwellers, spend much more time in the trees than previously assumed. This finding from the Max Planck Institute challenges long-standing ideas about the anatomy and evolution of gorillas. Western and Bwindi...
Merck Foundation Chairman, CEO, And 14 First Ladies Inaugurate The 7Th Edition Of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiati...
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN- AETOSWire) (BUSINESS WIRE ) -- Merck Foundation , the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, conducted the 7th Edition of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative - MFFLI Summit 2025 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was inaugurated by...
Democracy Is Not Dead – But It Must Be Reborn
Africa.com
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July 1, 2025
Democracy is in retreat. Across continents, long-standing institutions are crumbling, civic freedoms are under siege, and autocrats are rewriting the rules of engagement. In country after country, from Hungary to Myanmar, the United Staes to Sudan...
Roaming Charges: After Midnight
CounterPunch
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June 27, 2025
B-2 Stealth bomber flying at night. Photo: Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder / U.S. Air Force. After midnight We’re gonna let it all hang out We’re gonna cause talk and suspicion Give an exhibition Find out what it is all about – JJ Cale, After Midnight...
African HE to benefit from UK-funded climate project
University World News
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UNITED KINGDOM-AFRICA African universities are set to benefit from a US$940,000 climate adaptation research project led by the Association of African Universities (AAU) in partnership with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and the...
EditorialConfusion over damage to Iran's nuclear sites bodes ill for talks
The National News
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On June 22, the US sent seven stealth bombers, backed by fighter jets and submarines firing cruise missiles, to target three Iranian nuclear facilities. The operation came off the back of a wave of Israeli strikes on Tehran and other Iranian...
E Guinea’s Golden Swan Sets Benchmark
Business Ghana
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The African Energy Chamber (AEC) (www.EnergyChamber.org) proudly supports the recent visit of Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema to Equatorial Guinea’s Golden Swan industrial complex, marking a defining moment for Africa’s oil and gas sector....
Full list of the countries where rabies is 'high risk' after UK tourist dies
Manchester Evening News
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June 18, 2025
A woman has tragically died in the UK after becoming infected with rabies in Morocco. She is said to have contracted the fatal viral disease while coming into contact with a stray dog during a visit to Morocco, the UK Health and Security Agency...
Trump gives 36 countries Wednesday deadline to avoid travel ban
FOX 10 Phoenix - Arizona
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FILE-President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House on April 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) President Donald Trump has given 36 countries a Wednesday deadline to commit to improve its...
Pakistan June inflation rises 3.2% y/y, in line with forecast
Gulf Today
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July 1, 2025
Pakistan’s consumer price inflation rose 3.2 per cent year-on-year in June, the statistics bureau said on Tuesday, broadly in line with the finance ministry’s projection of 3 per cent to 4 per cent issued a day earlier. On a month-on-month basis,...
Lethal infection vaccine 'runs out' for UK travellers as Foreign Office issues alert
Daily Express
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June 30, 2025
Holidaymakers have been issued a warning as a crucial vaccine will be 'unavailable' for the next 2-3 weeks. Sanofi has informed NaTHNaC of an impending disruption in the supply of the yellow fever vaccine Stamaril in the UK. The vaccine is...
Rethinking the place of communication in combating malnutrition in Africa
The Cable
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June 16, 2025
BY MILLISCENT NNWOKA Africa faces a grave nutrition crisis, one that statistics alone cannot solve. In Nigeria, 40% of children under five are stunted, and over 17 million people are food insecure (UNICEF, 2023; FAO et al., 2023). Children are not...
How does Marburg virus spread between species? Young Ugandan...
Modern Ghana
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In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound – formed by bat excrement – and sinks its teeth into a bat. But this is no ordinary bat colony. The thousands of Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) found in this...
Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines
Mongabay
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June 30, 2025
New research by wildlife trade watchdog TRAFFIC reveals a thriving online trade in live tarantulas and scorpions in the Philippines, with more than 16,000 arachnids found offered for sale on Facebook in 2020 and 2022. Most traded species are...
Afreximbank to recruit 250,000 workers for proposed $5 billion Textile Facility in Nigeria
Nairametrics
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June 30, 2025
The outgoing President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Prof. Benedict Oramah, has disclosed that the bank plans to recruit 250,000 workers following its groundbreaking textile facility...