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1. Uganda: Uganda is Ebola-Free - Health Minister

   [allAfrica] Uganda has officially declared the end of its 2026 Ebola Disease outbreak, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.

2. Africa: Rethink. Rebuild. Rise. - AIDS 2026 Charts the Next Phase of the HIV Response

   [allAfrica] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- The global fight against HIV has never had more powerful scientific tools or faced greater political uncertainty.

3. Africa: What the AIDS Funding Withdrawal Revealed About African Health Law

   [allAfrica] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- For two decades, donor funding helped build one of the world's most successful HIV responses. Now, as the United States scales back support, legal scholar Mnotho Ngcobo says Africa is confronting not just a funding crisis, but a constitutional and ethical one.

4. 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.

5. Kenya: Court Lifts Shisha Ban in Major Blow to Government Crackdown

   [Capital FM] Nairobi -- The High Court has lifted the ban on shisha, ruling that continued enforcement of the prohibition is unlawful and unconstitutional after the government failed to regularise the underlying regulations.