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Rwanda. East Africa
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The ethnic sentiments have quickly spread into transnational communities, drawing them back to identitarian cleavages to tell Hutus from Tutsis or vice versa. It is fuelling divisions. newspaper.africa/2026/02/07/…
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Concerns over Rwanda’s alleged misuse of financial intelligence systems for political persecution and to intimidate Rwandans into silence. newspaper.africa/2025/11/10/…
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No single East African country had a clean bill of health on rights record last year with situations either having deteriorated or remained worse. newspaper.africa/2025/08/14/…
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Press Freedom: Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia enter 'very serious' situation newspaper.africa/2025/05/03/…
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The build up of a leader‘s new persona and the cultivation of a cult of personality. With this it becomes dangerous for those he leads to challenge him or criticize his policies. newspaper.africa/2025/03/21/…
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Floods&droughts not only claim lives but also constantly wash away arable land and dry up rivers, rendering villages and towns across Africa unlivable. What lay in store in 2025 is cause for greater concern newspaper.africa/2025/01/03/…
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Pledges by the US at #COP29Baku could be reversed by Trump when he officially takes office early next year. He doubts the climate crisis is real, and his win again spells doom for prospects of progress on key contentious climate justice issues. newspaper.africa/2024/11/10/…
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Some tech solutions discriminate against black people because the latter are not in the spaces where these technologies are built before being shipped to world's markets. Will tech companies embrace diversity?newspaper.africa/2024/10/14/…
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Rwanda’s education system needs to give people the tools to interrogate whatever life throws at them, and the ruling class needs to foster independent, critical thinking. It is this that will deliver a society that can resist brainwashing. newspaper.africa/2024/09/20/…
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Congratulations @eldridjordaan Reading: New app promises to help you detect fake drugs newspaper.africa/2024/07/08/… by @NextBigPaper @NafdacAgency @muhammadpate @TheWaaph @Adaeze_Oreh @Dr_AliyuTilde
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Due to rising medicine demand and incompetent regulatory systems to guarantee safe and affordable access in Africa, the market for fake drugs is flourishing, but African innovators are stepping up to tackle the issue. newspaper.africa/2024/07/08/…
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A few lenders in Africa have moved to consider ‘alternative data’ like mobile airtime, data payments or other aspects of the growing financial activity powered through mobile in their credit assessment. That has excluded many who need credit the most. newspaper.africa/2024/05/27/…
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For the first time in nearly 7 yrs, the number of internet shutdowns rose to a record 283. But what’s fueling this rise? What happened to the sophisticated spywares that made States' surveillance&propaganda much easier? READ ON👇 newspaper.africa/2024/06/12/…
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Current configuration, if unaddressed, undermines the right to access to information and generally places insurmountable hurdles to current and future news media enterprises in Africa. newspaper.africa/2024/03/21/…
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Member States’ support to the African Union fails to afford the latter political and financial muscle that match the scale of the problems it confronts. Here is what's at stake. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞: newspaper.africa/2024/02/20/…
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OPINION: Research in oral health in Africa could significantly contribute to improved outcomes by identifying region-specific challenges, developing cost-effective interventions, and enhancing treatment methods. newspaper.africa/2024/01/29/…
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𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐍: Africa has proven resilience in confronting infectious diseases, but the fight doesn’t appear to ease yet in light of significant internal and external challenges threatening to reverse registered progress. 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆: newspaper.africa/2024/01/06/… #OneHealth
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