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Historic heatwave leaves over 1,000 dead

Parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia are also suffering heatwaves and wildfires

Salon

Washington couple raise £500k for clean water charities in Africa through their business

Gordon and Emir Dobson have raised £500,000 in 20 years through their company AquAid

Chronicle Live

Kigali summit to outline strategy for nature conservation in Africa

First continent-wide meeting aims to set out plans to halt and reverse habitat and species loss in protected areas on land and sea

The Guardian - UK

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Africa is being left behind as wealthy nations push 4th COVID booster shots

Institutional racism, greed, and a broken global health system are all working against African nations where people are dying from COVID in silence, according to a scathing assessment from one expert.

WEKU

Meet African Fulani chef Fatmata Binta, winner of the 2022 Basque Culinary World Prize

Like many young chefs, Fatmata Binta is on a mission to rediscover family recipes: Only her job is m

The Hindu

Streaming: the best lost-in-the-wilderness films

The Lost City, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s remote island romp, joins classics from The African Queen to Fitzcarraldo

The Guardian - UK

Time for vigilance: On monkeypox cases in India

Increased testing and building awareness, not stigmatising the infected, can stop the spread of monkeypox

The Hindu

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Pregnant asylum seeker who arrived in Glasgow bleeding and crying thanks 'angel' locals

Joy* pulled into Central Station with her daughter and the clothes on their back. She says Glasgow and its 'wonderful' people 'saved her life' after the fled horror in Africa.

Glasgow Live

Welsh rugby fans make mammoth 11,000 mile journey on five aeroplanes via six countries to make South Africa clash

'It was either go across Africa or go home, so we thought let's do it'

Wales Online

Tullow (TUWOY) Meets Mid-Year Outlook, Upholds Annual Guidance

U.K.-based, West Africa-focused Tullow Oil Plc (OTCMKTS: TUWOY) kept its annual production guidance untouched after what the company called a robust first-half performance that met its expectations.

Benzinga

Dikembe Mutombo Has Long Battled Disease in His Native Country. Then COVID-19 Hit His New Home.

The longtime NBA star died of brain cancer Monday. We are republishing this story from 2022, honoring his many humanitarian efforts.

Sports Illustrated

US visa issues plague World Athletics meet: All you need to know

Hundreds of athletes, mostly Africans, have faced visa delays in getting to the US to participate in the event.

Al Jazeera

Mali's ruling junta suspends all UN peacekeeping rotations

In tonight's edition: Mali puts a stop to rotations of UN peacekeepers from the organisation's MINUSMA mission. Five former members of the Gambia's Intelligence Agency have been sentenced to death for the 2016 killing of a political activist called Solo Sandeng. And three years after the launch of a groundbreaking…

France 24

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

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Daily Mirror

World's deadliest snake kills more humans than all other species combined

The snake lives in parts of Asia and Africa and is although its venom is not the most lethal found in snakes, its sheer aggressiveness makes it big danger to humans

The Conversation

Amazing ting: South Africa must reinvigorate sorghum as a key food before it's lost

The world’s food systems have developed in a way that is not serving health and sustainability.

The Independent UK

Outbreaks from animals in Africa surge by 60% in last decade

The World Health Organization says that the number of outbreaks of diseases that jumped from animals to humans in Africa has jumped by more than 60% in the last decade, a worrying sign the planet could face increased animal-borne diseases like monkeypox, Ebola and coronavirus in the future

The Guardian - UK

Living With Ghosts review – Africa’s revolutionaries come back from the dead

The lives of forgotten, suppressed and erased political figures, as well as ordinary people, are explored by nine artists in this gripping show

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Morocco: Melilla Migrants Likely Died of 'Suffocation'

At least 23 migrants who died last month in a mass attempt to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco likely "suffocated", Morocco's state-backed CNDH rights group said on Wednesday. The death toll after around 2,000 people, many from Sudan, stormed the frontier on June 24 was the worst…

The Independent UK

Joe Biden was a fierce critic of South African apartheid – now he’s accused of ignoring similar policies in Israel

Several of the world’s leading human rights groups have accused Israel of committing the crime of apartheid, writes Richard Hall

Roll Call

Blockchains as ‘Last Mile’ Infrastructure in the Global South - Roll Call

Robby Greenfield shares how Umoja Labs is leveraging blockchain-based tools to deliver financial inclusion in Africa and beyond.

The Conversation

Six ways to improve HIV prevention pill uptake among young women in Zimbabwe

Adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa have a very high risk of acquiring HIV. The latest global AIDS update report suggests that a staggering six out of seven new infections among 15-19-year-olds in sub-Saharan Africa are among girls.

Daily Mirror

Moment man downs whole bottle of Jagermeister in two minutes for £10 before dying

The man, of South Africa, bought the 35 per cent Jagermeister spirit at a local liquor store and downed the entire bottle before collapsing and being rushed to hospital

Asharq Al-Awsat

US-Africa Business Summit in Marrakech Seeks to Create Sustainable Partnerships

Morocco’s Marrakech city is scheduled to host the US-Africa Business Summit 2022 between July 19 and 22. The event, which will be held under the patronage of King Mohammed VI, will bring together more than one thousand participants, including entrepreneurs and prime ministers. It aims to create resilient and sustainable…

Evening Standard

Akwasi Brenya-Mensa on new restaurant Tatale: ‘I want it to reflect blackness’

As he unveils his highly anticipated African restaurant, the Ghanaian-British chef talks culture, hype and his last-minute fundraising campaign

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