allAfrica

News from allafrica dot com

1. South Africa: We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-Out, Not Ending It

   [Health-e] South Africans are being told that providing a new HIV prevention tool (lenacapavir) to just about 456,000 people is a victory. It is not. In a country that still records hundreds of new infections every day, partial coverage is unlikely to slow the epidemic in any meaningful way. Worse still, all of the supplies have not yet reached our shores.

2. Congo-Kinshasa: UN Welcomes Progress On Talks Between DR Congo, M23 Armed Group

   [RFI] MONUSCO, the UN's peacekeeping mission in DR Congo, has hailed progress after Kinshasa and rival M23 rebels agreed to ease humanitarian aid deliveries and release prisoners within 10 days, following talks last week in Switzerland.

3. South Africa: Stop Blaming Immigrants for Govt Failures, Johannesburg Marchers Say

   [GroundUp] "This march is a declaration that no one is illegal and that our future is bound together as one human race"

4. South Africa: Broken Clinics Push Patients to Expensive Doctors

   [Scrolla] A government report shows eight out of ten people in South Africa live without medical aid and face high costs. Working people pay cash for private doctors because the public health system has staff shortages and very long waiting times.

5. Liberia: Boakai Launches $364m Western Corridor Road, Vows No County Left Behind

   [FrontPageAfrica] BO WATERSIDE -- President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has broken ground for the Western Corridor Road Development Project, declaring Liberia's poor road network "intolerable" and pledging accelerated infrastructure expansion to connect the country and drive economic growth.