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  • Jul 25, 2023

More than half of Lhubiriha Secondary School students are dead. BWERA, Uganda—For Zephana Kirilhuhandi and Sylvia Biira, the brick buildings of Lhubiriha Secondary School presented a gateway to a future that they and other parents in this impoverished border town never had.

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  • Jul 23, 2023

DADAAB, KENYA — Abdikadir Omar was trapped in an extremist-controlled town in Somalia for years until May, when he slipped out to make a 12-day journey with his wife and seven children to neighboring Kenya in search of food and safety.

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  • Jul 23, 2023

ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni called Sunday for new, more equal relationships between Europe and migrants’ countries of origin and transit as she convened a summit of some 20 nations, EU officials and international organizations aimed at stanching flows of illegal migration.

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  • Jul 23, 2023

HARARE, Zimbabwe — In a large hall at the headquarters of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party, women responded with roaring cheers when President Emmerson Mnangagwa described them as the party's "backbone" whose votes are vital to victory in elections scheduled for August.

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  • Jul 19, 2023

This ratio of 1:10,000 is a national average but in most states, the situation is palpably worse. “Only one doctor is incredibly available to treat 30, 000 patients in some states in the south, while states in the North are as worse as one doctor to 45,000 patients.

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  • Jul 19, 2023

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday inaugurated Phase-3 of the Five Districts Water Supply Project at Adaklu in the Volta Region, a project for which he cut the sod in September 2020.

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  • Jul 19, 2023

Uganda is one of the countries at greatest risk from climate change and one of the least prepared. Uganda's agricultural sector is experiencing climate change effects manifested through, frequent and severe dry spells, floods, high temperature and increased incidence of pests and diseases.

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  • Jun 29, 2023

Government violations. Nigerian security forces are frequently alleged to carry out arbitrary arrests, torture, forced disappearances, assassinations and extrajudicial summary executions.

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  • Jun 29, 2023

The Kenya Treasury Secretary has proposed changes to the Finance Bill, 2023 that will be tabled before Parliament for debate. Recent reform steps To help increase the level of domestic revenue mobilisation in Kenya, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) implemented a tax base expansion.

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  • Jun 29, 2023

The tradition of sacrificing animals commemorates this gesture. On the third day of Hajj, Muslims around the world, and the millions performing Hajj, celebrate Eid Al-Adha by sacrificing a sheep, goat or lamb and sharing the meat with the poor, their families and friends. Eid al-Adha commemorates the Quranic tale of Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice Ismail as an act of obedience to God. Before he could carry out the sacrifice, God provided a ram as an offering. In the Christian and Jewish telling, Abraham is ordered to kill another son, Isaac.

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  • Jun 14, 2023

Smoke rising above Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, last month. And Hungry residents search for scraps as war between rival generals upends trade.

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  • Jun 14, 2023

Central African nation fights jihadists and resists Russian influence, but leader has been accused of seizing power Chad has a reputation for prowess at desert warfare and an 11,000-man elite antiterrorist unit.

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