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Winnie Byanyima’s activism tested

The UNAIDS boss is leading the charge to free her husband, opposition politician Kizza Besigye ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | Just days after her husband, opposition politician Dr Kizza Besigye, was thrown in jail, Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAIDS, had to coordinate the launch of the World AIDS 2024 …

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Trump won, but Trumpism did not

  COMMENT | Bruce Ackerman – PROJECT SYNDICATE |  It is easy to exaggerate Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris in the recent US presidential contest. He won the popular vote by less than two percentage points – a similar margin of victory as the winners of the last three …

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Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya

They could play a role in natural waste reduction, especially for types of plastic that are resistant to conventional recycling methods ANALYSIS | FATHIYA KHAMIS | There’s been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming polystyrene. They join the ranks of …

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Africa is richer than you think

African finance experts at COP29 want that wealth measured in new ways ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has stirred up new thinking around financing for the continent at the COP29 by insisting on a revaluation of its green wealth. Adesina on …

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Traditional healing of mental illness

Colonial powers tried to stifle it and failed and today it’s a powerful force  ANALYSIS | MAJA JAKARASI | In Zimbabwe’s Shona language, mental illness is known as chirwere chepfungwa or kupenga. Before British colonial settlers arrived in 1890, traditional healers (n’anga) played an important role in helping people to manage …

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