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WHO says vaccinations saving millions in Africa, but US aid cuts and Iran war threaten progress
Vaccination programs across Africa have saved tens of millions of lives over the past two decades, but progress is slowing in some countries, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, amid warnings that cuts to United States aid risk leaving millions of children unprotected.
The continent is crucial to the future of the church, but it’s also the center of long-running tensions over some of Catholicism’s most charged issues.
By Noel Kokou Tadegnon and Catarina Demony LOME, April 14 (Reuters) - Togo will ask United Nations member states to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the true size of Africa and ditch the 16th-century Mercator projection,
USS George H.W. Bush may be avoiding the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the ‘other” chokepoint in the Middle East, where U.S. Navy destroyers have come under attack in the past.
Great white sharks have vanished from a former South African hotspot, leaving scientists to debate over the cause.
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South Africa gets R3.8 billion climate loan from Germany, locals worried by country’s growing debt
South Africa has secured a R3.8 billion climate loan from Germany, but citizens are concerned by the country's growing debt and inability to pay it back.
While inflation is easing in some economies and business activity shows signs of recovery, escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East—particularly the proposed blockade of the Strait of Hormuz—are introducing fresh uncertainty.