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1. Africa: Why Inequality, Not The Next Virus, Could Be the World's Greatest Pandemic Threat

   [allAfrica] Inequality doesn't just make pandemics worse; it helps create the conditions for them to spread, persist and return

2. Kenya: A New Harvest Of Hope - Bt Cotton Revives Lamu

   [allAfrica] The trip to Lamu is long and torturous but on arrival, one is met by unmatched beauty in this island off the Kenyan coast.

3. 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.

4. Malawi: FAO Warning - Malawi Sliding Toward National Nutrition Emergency

   [Nyasa Times] Most Malawians are being priced out of healthy food, with new global data revealing a dramatic surge in the cost of nutritious diets -- pushing families towards increasingly unhealthy eating habits.

5. South Africa: Battle to Stop Illegal Dumping in Cape Town's Townships

   [GroundUp] "Immediately after we clean, people dump again"