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New Maternity Block brings hope, healthcare to Cheshegu comm...
Modern Ghana
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A newly constructed maternity block in Cheshegu has brought renewed optimism to thousands of women in the area who previously had little or no access to safe and dignified maternal care. The facility, which features a delivery room, multiple...
5 ways to take action to support people and ocean health
Greenpeace International
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July 29, 2025
While coastal and Indigenous communities have been sustainably managing the ocean, protecting biodiversity and safeguarding a healthy climate for all for centuries, destructive fishing and industrial exploitation is harming people’s health and...
"Senegal is everything to me" - Gorgui Dieng on his national team journey
FIBA Basketball
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DAKAR (Senegal) - What really defines an opportunity? Context is always the key. Unfortunately, the context surrounding a young Gorgui Dieng growing up in Senegal during the ‘90s is pretty much similar to the one bordering the next generation of...
Floods in Sub-Saharan Africa; causes, determinants and health!
The Point
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The review revealed that the frequency and intensity of precipitations have increased in recent decades in SSA. This is worsened by anthropogenic activities including urban sprawl, population growth, and land use changes. The health effects of...
Electricity access for rural Senegal via mini solar energy plants
ESI Africa
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July 29, 2025
Senegal has launched a new solar electrification initiative aimed at extending clean and reliable energy access to more than 30,000 people in remote parts of the country. This is part of the country’s national strategy to achieve universal...
Senegal’s Small-Scale Gold Miners Risk Health with Mercury Use Despite Government Bans
South Africa Today
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July 28, 2025
In the remote village of Bantako, deep in southeastern Senegal, thousands of small-scale gold miners continue to use toxic mercury to extract gold, despite severe health and environmental risks. The Senegalese government has struggled for years to...
Refill, Reuse, Resist: Senegal moves to end the era of single-use plastics
Greenpeace International
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July 28, 2025
Dakar, July 28, 2025 – In a decisive step towards environmental justice, Senegalese Civil Society actors convened for a two-day workshop in Dakar to build a united front against single-use plastics, with a particular focus on the country’s growing...
Stopping the trade in fake, substandard medicines in Africa, By Eliangiringa Kaale
Premium Times
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July 27, 2025
The time for half-measures and empty promises has passed. African governments must take immediate, decisive action to combat the proliferation of substandard and falsified medical products that are killing our children and bleeding our economies...
Africa: The Club of Five and the Sociopath
International Viewpoint
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On 9 July 2025, President Trump received five African leaders from Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal for a working lunch. Countries, according to Trump, "all very vibrant places with very valuable land, great minerals, and...
Small-scale gold miners in Senegal use mercury despite health risks
Africanews
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July 27, 2025
There are thousands of hopeful gold miners in the village of Bantako, deep in the south-east of Senegal. In the past 20 years, it has become one of the hotspots for prospectors in the region, hoping to find a speck of gold. Due to geopolitical...
ICO sends Dhs1.5m worth of medicines to Kenya
Gulf Today
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July 27, 2025
The International Charity Organisation (ICO) has dispatched a shipment of medicines to Kenya, valued at Dhs1.5 million, as part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen healthcare and support medical systems, particularly in regions with limited...
Egypt's Foreign Minister Opens Business Forum In Senegal To Boost Trade - Dailynewsegypt
MENAFN
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July 26, 2025
(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Friday led a business delegation to Senegal, where he opened a bilateral business forum and a new Egyptian factory, as part of a push to deepen economic ties. Abdelatty...
Egypt’s Foreign Minister opens business forum in Senegal to boost trade
Daily News Egypt
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July 26, 2025
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Friday led a business delegation to Senegal, where he opened a bilateral business forum and a new Egyptian factory, as part of a push to deepen economic ties. Abdelatty participated in the Egypt-Senegal...
New tool developed to distribute vaccines fairly and avoid waste
Medical News
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July 30, 2025
No one knows exactly how many doses of coronavirus vaccines were discarded during the pandemic. But the numbers are high. Media reported that 125,000 doses went unused in Norway during 2021 alone. "We started planning quite late in Norway. There...
Supporting First Responder Community Health Centers, Mobile Health, and More
Direct Relief
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July 25, 2025
By Staff Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 328 shipments of requested medical aid to 44 U.S. states and territories and 17 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 4.7 million defined daily doses of medication. Medications and...
603 Shoutout: ‘Art & Mind 2025 Covid, Climate and Our Future’
New Hampshire Magazine
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July 29, 2025
Sista Creatives Rising (SCR) is a 100% virtual project and concept founded by Black, invisibly disabled mother-daughter duo Claire Jones, 62, and Amaranthia Sepia, 25. The duo prides themselves on working with primarily homebound, disabled, queer...
BlackLine Studio360: The Platform for Future-Readiness
CFO Dive
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Probe launched into ‘Hezbollah plot’ to kill Netanyahu’s lawyer
The National News
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A French judge has ordered an investigation into a reported plot by Lebanon's Hezbollah to assassinate a lawyer linked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Lawyer Olivier Pardo told investigators that Ruddy Terranova visited his office in...
Youth activist charity hires Unicef nutrition specialist as next chief
Third Sector
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July 25, 2025
Bite Back 2030 has appointed D’Arcy Williams, nutrition specialist at Unicef Tanzania, as its next chief executive. Williams will join the youth activist charity, which aims to halve childhood obesity by 2030, in October. He succeeds James Toop,...
50 Over 50: Lifestyle
Forbes
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View the list: A-G Claudine Adamo 55 | Executive Vice President & COO, Merchandising, Costco As head of merchandising at Costco, Claudine Adamo and her team decide what the wholesale giant's more than 140 million cardholders put in their shopping...