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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. East Africa: U.S. Senators Urge Rubio to Address Impact of Ebola Outbreak on Women

   [United States Senate] WASHINGTON -- Yesterday, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the State Department to take swift action to protect women and infants from the deadly impact of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Africa. The Senators called on the Trump Administration to promptly use congressionally appropriated funds for voluntary family planning programming to distribute already purchased family planning

5. Nigeria: South African Singer Tyla Cancels Lagos Performance Amid Xenophobia Backlash

   [Vanguard] South African singer Tyla has removed Lagos from the schedule of her upcoming APop world tour following online backlash from some Nigerians over renewed reports of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.