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1. Africa: AHEFT Prize Launched to Recognise African Universities Leading Higher Education Transformation

   [allAfrica] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- As Africa grapples with shrinking international development funding and rising pressure to create jobs for its rapidly growing youth population, the Mastercard Foundation is making one of the continent's biggest long-term investments in higher education, committing US$500 million over the next decade to transform African universities.

2. Liberia: Boakai Purges Senior Security Officials Across Multiple Agencies

   [Liberian Investigator] President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has dismissed or suspended senior officials at Roberts International Airport, the Liberia National Police, the National Security Agency, the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection over the country's two record cocaine seizures, and ordered that those implicated be turned over for prosecution.

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. 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.

5. 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