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1. Africa: African Health Financing Faces Governance Crisis, Not Just Funding Gap

   [allAfrica] Despite spending billions on health every year, many African health systems remain underfunded and heavily dependent on external assistance. Then, African leaders adopted the Abuja Declaration, which pledged to allocate at least 15% of their national budgets to health care.

2. South Africa: Heat Wave Event Breaks Temperature Records

   [SAnews.gov.za] The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has confirmed that several weather stations across the Namakwa District and the Western Cape have officially broken their long-standing maximum temperature records for March.

3. Somalia: Israel Weighs Military Base in Somaliland to Counter Yemen's Houthis - Report

   [Shabelle] Berbera -- Israel is studying the possibility of establishing a military and intelligence base on the coast of Somaliland as part of efforts to counter attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, according to a report by Bloomberg.

4. East Africa: Rubio, Abiy Discuss Horn Security Amid Regional Tensions

   [Horn Diplomat] U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone call with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali to discuss regional security and cooperation in the Horn of Africa, the U.S. State Department said.

5. Africa: Sub-Saharan African Economies Among World's Fastest-Improving in Global Connectedness

   [Premium Times] Based on more than 9 million data points tracking international flows of trade, capital, information, and people, the report offers the most comprehensive view of globalisation available.