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1. Africa: As Funding Shrinks, Africa's SRHR Movement Vows Not to Retreat

   [allAfrica] Mombasa, Kenya -- As funding shrinks, civic space narrows and opposition to sexual and reproductive rights grows across Africa, advocates are gathering in Mombasa with a simple message: progress cannot be taken for granted.

2. Nigeria: Nigeria and Mozambique Show How Health Systems Can Withstand Funding Cuts

   [allAfrica] For decades, many health programmes across sub-Saharan Africa have relied on a familiar model: donors fund disease-specific projects, parallel delivery structures are built around them, and services expand or contract with the funding cycle.

3. Kenya: Court Orders Govt to Set Aside Millons for Torture, Abduction Victims

   [Capital FM] Nairobi -- The government has been ordered to set aside Sh105 million from a compensation fund for victims of torture, enforced disappearances and abductions as a court considers a legal challenge to a government verification process.

4. Malawi: Diplomatic Tension Erupts As SA Tells Malawi to Reimburse Deportation Costs

   [Nyasa Times] South Africa has sparked a diplomatic storm after formally demanding that Malawi, Nigeria and Ethiopia reimburse part of the R292 million (about K29 billion) it has spent this year deporting undocumented migrants -- with Malawians making up the largest share of those removed.

5. Rwanda: Rwanda Rolls Out Five-Year Strategy to Fight NCDs

   [New Times] Rwanda is targeting the interruption of transmission of leprosy and onchocerciasis (river blindness) by 2030, under a new five-year plan to tackle neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).