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Trump declares U.S. shift from 'aid to trade' as he hosts lunch with African leaders after USAID cuts
Spectrum News 13 - Florida
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July 9, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. was “shifting from aid to trade” in its approach to Africa, as he hosted five leaders from the continent at the White House on Wednesday. What You Need To Know President Donald Trump said the U.S....
Indigenous knowledge proves key in a study of plants gorillas use to self-medicate
Mongabay
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October 3, 2024
Seeking plants with potential medical properties, a team of researchers in Gabon looked to the practices of two distinct groups: traditional healers living on the fringes of Gabon’s Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, and the gorillas that live inside...
US Tariffs: Donald Trump’s Extended Tariff Deadline Keeps Global Trade in Limbo
Latestly
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July 9, 2025
Washington, July 9: After months of promises to overhaul or eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency, President Donald Trump is touting a fast and robust federal response to the devastating Texas floods. One former agency leader says it's...
World News | Trump Sends out Tariff Letters to 7 More Countries but Avoids Major US Trade Partners
Latestly
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July 9, 2025
Washington, Jul 9 (AP) President Donald Trump sent out tariff letters to seven smaller US trading partners on Wednesday with a pledge to announce import taxes on other countries later in the day. None of the countries targeted in the first batch...
Trump sends tariff letters to 7 more countries but avoids major trade partners
PBS Frontline
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July 9, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sent out tariff letters to seven smaller U.S. trading partners on Wednesday with a pledge to announce import taxes on other countries later in the day. None of the countries targeted in the first batch of...
Flanking tactics
Business World
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July 9, 2025
Don’t look now, but if we’re not careful, we could find ourselves legally outflanked over the West Philippine Sea. In a move widely reported abroad on May 30 but which merited just minor, bottom-page treatment in the “World” pages of two local...
What Trump’s Africa Summit Is Trying to Achieve
Foreign Policy
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July 9, 2025
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a surprise African leaders’ summit in Washington, anti-government protests turn deadly in Kenya, and Nigerian ride-hailing start-up Moove eyes...
Africa: Enhancing banana plant disease preparedness
PreventionWeb
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October 4, 2024
Lomé - Across Africa, bananas are a vital crop for millions of smallholder farmers, but the spread of transboundary plant diseases like banana bunchy top disease (BBTD) and Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4 (TR4) poses a serious threat to economic...
United States (U.S.) Chamber of Commerce Hosts the Transitional President of Gabon Brice Oligui Nguema, Announces New U.S.-Gabon Investment Deals
The Sunday News
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October 4, 2024
Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted the Transitional President of Gabon Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema for a business roundtable and the formal signing of 6 Memorandums of Understanding between U.S. companies and the Gabonese government that...
Kenya's Mpox cases rise to nine amid heightened disease prevention efforts
Daijiworld News
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Nairobi, Oct 3 (IANS): Kenya's Ministry of Health confirmed one more Mpox case, raising the total count in the country to nine as the government strengthened public health response to the disease. Deborah Barasa, cabinet secretary in the Ministry...
Kenya's mpox cases rise to 9 amid heightened disease prevention efforts
Xinhua News Agency
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NAIROBI, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed one more mpox case, raising the total count in the country to nine as the government strengthened public health response to the disease. Deborah Barasa, cabinet...
The Latest: Brazilian President Lula threatens to suspend economic deals over Trump's 50% tariffs
Newsday - New York
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that the 50% tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump would trigger the country’s economic reciprocity law. That allows trade, investment and intellectual property agreements to...
Australian research reveals impact of partner violence on child health
Xinhua News Agency
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SYDNEY, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The children of mothers who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are more likely to suffer from poor health outcomes, an Australian research has found. In a new study, a team of researchers led by the Menzies...
CJTF-HOA Completes Largest Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise with Gabonese Defense and Security Forces in Libreville, Gabon
DVIDS - Georgia
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September 28, 2024
LIBREVILLE, Gabon – Sept. 15, 2024 – U.S. Army soldiers from the East Africa Response Force (EARF) arrived in Libreville, Gabon, to participate in a critical Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (EDRE), marking a significant step toward...
Marco Rubio imposter: experts say AI deepfakes of voice and writing styles are 'dangerous escalation'
The National News
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Artificial intelligence was used to impersonate the voice of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and place calls to foreign ministers and American officials, the State Department confirmed on Tuesday, raising further concerns over the growing use of...
Study Highlights Role of Jaundice-Associated Pigment in Protecting Against Malaria
Newswise
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June 12, 2025
**EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL THURSDAY, JUNE 12, AT 2 P.M. ET** KEY TAKEAWAYS: Scientists say they have new experimental evidence of a novel role for bilirubin, a natural yellow pigment found in the body, in protecting humans from the worst...
Texas politicians lead effort to study a psychedelic drug. What is ibogaine?
AOL
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A once obscure traditional psychedelic plant from Africa has made headlines recently as Texas pushes for more research and a prominent Republican wrote a vigorous endorsement of its possible use for the treatment of addiction and for veterans...
Trump hosts West African leaders as the region reels from sweeping US aid cuts
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia
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The White House said “this discussion and lunch dialogue with African heads of state was arranged because President Trump believes that African countries offer incredible commercial opportunities which benefit both the American people and our...
Ousted president quits Gabon politics, calls for wife's release
BBC
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September 19, 2024
Gabon's deposed President Ali Bongo has announced he will quit politics a year after he was toppled from power by a military coup. "I wish to reaffirm my withdrawal from political life and the definitive renunciation of any national ambition," Mr...
As Biya’s health takes turn for the worse, reports say France might sponsor a coup
Cameroon Concord News
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September 27, 2024
Cameroonians should be bracing for impact as the health of the country’s president, Paul Biya, takes a turn for the worse. Mr. Biya has been a colony of diseases for some time now but the diseases have been in check thanks to Swiss doctors who...