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Thirty years after Nelson Mandela's election and apartheid's end, South Africans reflect on democracy.

[allAfrica] The 2024 edition of Africa Healthcare Summit was held in Accra on April 22-23, 2024. Organized by Zenith Global Health, this year's theme was " Advances in Public Health-Tackling Inequities and Access: A One Health Approach". The organization's mission is to foster partnership, collaboration and share learning, thereby bridge the global south/north divide and form partnerships (PPP) involving all stakeholders, policy makers in positive and meaningful engagement to ensure health equity and access.

BBC websites and radio are blocked for two weeks over a Human Rights Watch report on alleged mass killings.

[MSF] Geneva -- At the 5th WHO Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies conference today, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) presented the costs of its landmark TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial that helped identify a shorter, all-oral treatment regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB),* which totalled €34 million. This is the first time the detailed costs of an individual clinical trial will have ever been shared publicly, challenging the lack of transparency around drug development and the prevailing public

[RFI] A British law to send unwanted migrants to Rwanda, which passed this week after months of wrangling, has generated fierce criticism at home and abroad. In Rwanda, opponents of the longtime president say the country is unfit to host asylum seekers - while accusing the UK of outsourcing its responsibilities.

[GhanaToday] Government is negotiating with its creditors in a bid to secure funding to restart and complete the PTC Interchange Project in the twin-city of Sekondi-Takoradi.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's publicly owned Ports and Rail Company (CFM) handled, in 2023, 26.6 million net tonnes.

[New Times] The Supreme Court on Friday, April 26 dismissed a petition brought by a feminist organisation challenging the country's public indecency laws.

[New Times] No Genocide happens without a plan, preparation, and without state involvement, the High Commissioner of Rwanda to the UK, Johnston Busingye, noted on April 25 during an event marking the 30th Commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in London.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- AU Chairperson said he is "following with deep concern the escalating tensions between local communities" and "appeals for "the respect and full implementation" of the Pretoria agreement.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- The monthly trade deficit shrank 4.16% in March to TND 1,540.1 million compared to the previous month, reads the National Institute of Statistics (INS) monthly report on Foreign Trade at Current Prices, March 2024.

[The Point] Malaria is one of the most severe health problems worldwide. Despite being the leading cause of death in many developing countries, studies revealed that nearly half the world's population lives in areas at risk of malaria transmission in 87 countries and territories.

[Agenzia Fides] Ouagadougou -- The catechist Edouard Zoetyenga Yougbare was kidnapped and killed near Saatenga, in the diocese of Fada N'Gourma, in eastern Burkina Faso. According to a diocesan priest quoted by the Aci Africa news agency, the catechist was looking for his donkey on April 18 when the area where he was staying was about three kilometers from Kamona, a suburb on the outskirts of the center of Saatenga, was attacked by an armed group, possibly shepherds from the Peuls tribe. Several people who were in the area were

[Liberian Observer] Monrovia -- The President of the Republic, H. E Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has suspended, with immediate effect, Madam Edwina C. Zackpah, Mr. Israel Akinsanya, Mr. Zotawon D. Titus, Mr. James Gbarwea, and Mr. Osborne K. Diggs, Chairperson and Commissioners, respectively, of the Liberia Telecommunication Authority for allegations of questionable financial transactions and other malpractices at the Authority.

The policing minister appeared to ask an audience member if Rwanda and Congo were different countries.

South Africa's former president hits out at corruption within the governing party.

[The Conversation Africa] There was a moment during the state capture years of South African president Jacob Zuma's term in office (2009 to 2018) when the veil finally slipped. There had been quiet rumblings against the country's constitution for many years. But now a senior figure in the ruling African National Congress - its chief whip in the National Assembly, Mathole Motshekga - gave public expression to the notion that when judges overturned decisions of the government they were undermining democracy by thwarting the will of

[Daily Trust] Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, has insisted that he has power to direct the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to suspend airlines.

[Daily Trust] All is now set for the maiden edition of the Nigeria Auto Industry Summit (NAISU) organized by the Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) in partnership with the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC).

[Shabelle] Nairobi, Kenya -- In a shocking revelation, an intricate network of corruption involving Somali, Kenyan, and Indian nationals has been exposed within the Indian Embassy in Kenya. These groups are accused of exploiting vulnerable Somali patients seeking medical treatment in India by significantly inflating the cost of medical visas. Typically priced at $92, the visas are being illicitly sold for $1500, exploiting the desperation of families seeking urgent medical care.