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1. Africa: Cotton to Cloth - The Story Africa Has Always Needed to Tell

   [allAfrica] Africa grows more than half of the world's finest long-staple cotton. It earns less than three percent of what that cotton is eventually worth. This is not a trade problem. It is a narrative problem -- and allAfrica is setting out to fix it.

2. Africa: Africa's Energy Crossroads: What Namibia's Rise and South Africa's Debate Mean for the Continent

   [allAfrica] Africa stands at one of the most consequential moments in its modern economic history.

3. Sudan: US Congress Weighs Landmark Sudan Bills to Tighten Sanctions and Accountability

   [Dabanga] Washingtion D.C. -- The US Congress is considering two bills that could significantly reshape Washington's policy towards Sudan by placing future action on the war under a stronger legal framework rather than relying on executive decisions.

4. Africa: AHEFT Prize Launched to Recognise African Universities Leading Higher Education Transformation

   [allAfrica] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- As Africa grapples with shrinking international development funding and rising pressure to create jobs for its rapidly growing youth population, the Mastercard Foundation is making one of the continent's biggest long-term investments in higher education, committing US$500 million over the next decade to transform African universities.

5. Uganda: HIV Injection Is Not a Vaccine, Experts Warn

   [Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- Experts have urged those who already received their first injection of the twice-yearly HIV preventing drug Lenacapavir to consider using combination prevention options, warning that the game changer injection is not a vaccine.