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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. 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).

4. Zimbabwe: Lake Kariba Boat Disaster - 15 Dead, Dozens Still Missing

   [New Zimbabwe] FIFTEEN people have so far been confirmed dead, and dozens others are still missing after a District Development Fund boat capsized on Lake Kariba on Tuesday afternoon.

5. Angola: Uíge - the Violence of the Angolan Political Police

   [Maka] Neide dos Santos, 24, was sitting in a bus parked near UNITA's provincial headquarters in Uíge at about 2pm when stones began striking the vehicle. Another activist and the driver were with her.