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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- African governments and aviation industry leaders are pushing for faster implementation of open-skies policies, warning that fragmented air transport markets are raising business costs and limiting the benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Area.

[CAF] The CAF Executive Committee ("EXCO") unanimously endorses the "Joint Update" by the FIFA President and Secretary General on the FIFA Forward Enterprise and will continue to focus on making African Football amongst the best in the world and adhering to governance and transparency global best practices.

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[InfoWire] The landmark exposure marks one of the largest capital deployments by a single institutional investor into a single African-born tech startup to date.

[UN News] El Niño is putting millions of lives at risk in eastern and southern Africa but the UN is ensuring that communities are better prepared to deal with its impact.

[allAfrica] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Evidence is growing that the people most affected by HIV are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

[allAfrica] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- As Africa grapples with shrinking international development funding and rising pressure to create jobs for its rapidly growing youth population, the Mastercard Foundation is making one of the continent's biggest long-term investments in higher education, committing US$500 million over the next decade to transform African universities.

[allAfrica] Twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir has continued to demonstrate exceptional protection against HIV infection.

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[allAfrica] Africa grows more than half of the world's finest long-staple cotton. It earns less than three percent of what that cotton is eventually worth. This is not a trade problem. It is a narrative problem -- and allAfrica is setting out to fix it.

[allAfrica] The UK government has confirmed sweeping reductions to its bilateral aid programme. Nine African countries are set to lose more than 80% of direct British assistance by 2029 as overseas development spending is cut from 0.5% to 0.3% of Gross National Income.

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[The New Humanitarian] "Act now or pay a much higher price later."