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[allAfrica] In response to pressing appeals from many media practitioners and stakeholders across Africa who believe a free, independent, professional and thriving media industry is essential to the continent's future, AllAfrica Global Media has agreed to launch a new convening platform: the AllAfrica Media Leaders' Summit (AMLS).
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[Shabelle] In Somalia, an estimated 4 million people--or one-fifth of the population--face acute food insecurity; 3.8 million people are displaced from their homes; and 1.7 million children under five are acutely malnourished. The protracted humanitarian crisis behind these shocking figures is a result of ongoing conflict, climate-related disasters such as floods and droughts, recurrent outbreaks of infectious diseases, and high levels of poverty.
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[New Republic] The Deputy Director for Operations at the Liberia National Fire Service, Edwin Tisdell has disclosed that the LNFS is operating with only one functional fire truck in the country.
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[DW] Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi are at the epicenter of the deadliest cholera outbreak in southern Africa in at least a decade. The global stockpile of vaccines to limit the disease's spread has run dry.