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Serious Collective Efforts Needed to Curb Israeli Crimes: Pezeshkian
Tasnim News Agency
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August 10, 2025
The Iranian president on Sunday received the credentials of nine incoming foreign ambassadors to Tehran. In the meetings, Pezeshkian deplored the escalation of Israeli atrocities against the defenseless people of Gaza. He said it is necessary for...
Black Carbon Emissions Underestimated in Global South
Newswise
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August 5, 2025
BYLINE: Beth Miller Newswise — Black carbon, the sooty byproduct of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, has emerged as a major contributor to climate change and human health impacts. Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at...
More oxygen for Africa-China higher education collaboration
University World News
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AFRICA-CHINA China and Africa are deepening collaborations between their universities and they have resolved to increase the number of institutions of higher learning involved in partnerships between the two regions across various fields of study....
TEMDO to deliver first local mini sugar plant
Daily News Tanzania
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August 7, 2025
DAR ES SALAAM: TANZANIA Engineering and Manufacturing Design Organisation (TEMDO) has marked a major milestone in industrial journey, especially with the creation of its first locally designed sugar processing plant, a game-changing innovation set...
Demanding ecological justice is a form of worship
The Standard
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When First Lady Mama Rachel Ruto planted a tree during a tree planting exercise in Kakamega. [File, PCS] In the beginning, God created everything, plus man, who was then entrusted with stewardship of creation. This took six days, the Bible says....
NSPP hosts launch of 2 books at 123rd NMC Book Club ceremony
The Nation
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August 9, 2025
LAHORE - The National School of Public Policy (NSPP), Pakistan Administrative Staff College, Lahore, on Friday served as the vibrant venue for the launch of two highly anticipated and impactful books, in a ceremony organised by the Book Club of...
Disaster-Preparedness Must Replace Response-Oriented Approach, Speakers Tell Round Table on Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience to Climate Change
News Central Asia
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August 7, 2025
“There are no natural disasters; all disasters are human-induced,” underscored an expert at the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries today. Opha Pauline Dube, Professor at the University of Botswana and Lead Author...
The Landlocked Gather in Turkmenistan to Confront an Age-old Conundrum
The Diplomat
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August 6, 2025
The Central Asian region is unique in the world for being entirely landlocked, and so it was of little surprise that most of the region’s leaders attended the opening of the recent U.N. Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, ongoing in the...
Tanzania targets LPG bulk procurement to cut costs, boost supply
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. The government has embarked on major infrastructure upgrades at key seaports as it moves to bring liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) under the Bulk Procurement System (BPS), in a strategic move aimed at improving fuel security and...
Swahili Soundtracks: Tanzanian Artists Take Bongo Flava Global
The Citizen
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Once seen as a regional rhythm, Bongo Flava is now firmly establishing itself on the global music map. With its Swahili lyrics, genre-crossing collaborations, and powerful digital traction, Tanzania’s homegrown sound is rapidly becoming a major...
Kenya Pushes for Ban Affecting 21 Countries
Kenyans.co.ke
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August 8, 2025
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has called upon the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) to enforce a ban on hazardous pesticides across its member states. Speaking on Friday, August 8, Kagwe warned that the continued...
Kenya urges uniform Comesa ban on hazardous pesticides
The Standard
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Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe during the 9th Joint Comesa ministerial meeting on agriculture, natural resources and environment in Lusaka on Friday. [Courtesy] Kenya is now calling for a regional crackdown on hazardous pesticides...
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
Why China, Africa should partner to curb m-pox
Star
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A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration./FILE The M-Pox outbreak continues to cause havoc across Africa, with 89,566 cases reported from 25 African Union member states. According to the Africa CDC Epidemic...
CS Kagwe calls for uniform ban on pesticides in COMESA bloc to safeguard food safety
Citizen TV Kenya
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August 8, 2025
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has called for an urgent crackdown on the use of hazardous pesticides within the COMESA bloc, warning that continued circulation of banned agrochemicals in some member states poses a threat to food...
Skin of Color Savvy: Improving Global Access in Dermatology with GLODERM
Consultant Live
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August 4, 2025
This special Clinical Episode of the Skin of Color Savvy: The Art and Science of Treating Patients of Color features an illuminating conversation between Nada Elbuluk, MD, current president of the Skin of Color Society (SOCS), and esteemed...
World Knowable Magazine Civilizations of Africa through a new lens
Yahoo News
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The continent of Africa is recognized as the place where humankind originated and evolved over millennia. From famous ancestors like Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis remains unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974, to the Turkana Boy, a Homo erectus...
Civilizations of Africa through a new lens
Knowable Magazine
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The continent of Africa is recognized as the place where humankind originated and evolved over millennia. From famous ancestors like Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis remains unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974, to the Turkana Boy, a Homo erectus...
Tanzania commits to allow sea access to landlocked neighbours
Zawya
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Tanzania this week assured landlocked neighbours of unfettered sea access for their commerce, adding its voice to calls for sea routes, a point that has sometimes been contentious in the region. Prof Godius Kyaharara, Permanent Secretary in...
Overfishing forces Zambia’s third Lake Tanganyika fishing ban
Institute for Security Studies
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Overfishing forces Zambia’s third Lake Tanganyika fishing ban Once-abundant fish stocks must be replenished, but the ban alone won’t inspire more sustainable lake use by local communities. Lake Tanganyika is Africa’s longest and deepest lake, with...