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What happens after USAID closure in Kenya? Experts weigh in
07 Feb 2025 13:12 GMT
A boy looks through a fence at the Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya. [Tony Karumba, AFP]
The recent dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) by the Donald Trump administration is expected to have far-reaching consequences for …
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Obama Breaks Silence on US Foreign Aid Cuts to Africa
07 Feb 2025 07:22 GMT
Former US President Barack Obama has described current US President Donald Trump's decision to pause foreign aid to other countries as a profound foreign policy mistake.
After his inauguration in January, President Trump signed new executive orders, …
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Trump’s aid freeze sparks chaos in Africa: HIV treatments, health programmes halted
06 Feb 2025 23:20 GMT
NAIROBI, Feb 7 — President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze foreign assistance has sent aid staff in Africa into “panic mode”, with even HIV experimental treatment programmes stopped dead in their tracks.
Trump last week ordered a suspension of foreign …
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Cultivating research leaders for a sustainable Future Africa
06 Feb 2025 19:32 GMT
… African initiative by Africans for Africans? “Yes,” says … , Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Together, … significant implications for food security. Besides participating in … Egerton University in Kenya, who specialises in …
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Making a splash in South Sudan: Local students saving lives in remote African villages
06 Feb 2025 19:01 GMT
… village of Katchuat, South Sudan, after young people in … partnering with a vetted-African nonprofit — Give Education … Camps in Uganda and Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Finally, … , enhances food security and drills wells to provide clean, drinking water,” its …
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Climate change impacts in African mountains are greater than previously thought
06 Feb 2025 19:07 GMT
Researchers know that mountain communities are particularly vulnerable to climate change, but there is limited understanding of climate change impacts in most African mountains due to lack of data. This might be surprising given that around 288 million …
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Why more US-African space cooperation is the answer
06 Feb 2025 17:24 GMT
… increased United States-African collaboration in space. … compatibility. For example, Africans often benefit from … customers now operating in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and … Africa collaboration
Failure to enhance connectivity and cooperate on food security …
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Safaricom & NGO Launch AI Farming Solutions to Kenyan Agriculture
06 Feb 2025 17:08 GMT
Safaricom PLC and Opportunity International, a global non-governmental organization, have developed FarmerAI in Kenya, an innovative AI chatbot that will provide smallholder farmers in underserved communities with real-time, relevant farming best practices …
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Italy allocates Euro 4.4 Billion for climate action in Africa, including Zimbabwe
06 Feb 2025 12:57 GMT
… launched at the Italy-Africa Summit in Rome in … to reinforce the Italy-Africa partnership through a peer- … of Congo, Zambia, and Tanzania, aiming to lower transport … continued challenges in poverty reduction, food security, quality education, infrastructure, …
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Important breakthroughs open up new phase of cooperation with Middle East, Africa: official
05 Feb 2025 00:04 GMT
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Hang has affirmed that important breakthroughs contributed to opening up a new phase of cooperation between Vietnam and countries in the Middle East and African regions in 2024.
Prime Minister Pham Minh …