Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
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Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.
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#News #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #PublicHealth #USAID #SouthSudan

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

^{Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

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➡️ @thecontinent - Pan-African online newspaper run by non-profit based in South Africa
➡️ @TUKOcoke - Kenyan online news site
➡️ @ZekuZelalem - Award-winning investigative reporter covering Ethiopia and Horn of Africa
➡️ @beverly_ochieng - Security & media analyst focused on Africa
➡️ @teachersupdates - Education news in Kenya
➡️ @index - Business news in Mozambique

#Africa #African #Kenya #Ethiopia

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#Iran has intensified its outreach across #Africa, pursuing security partnerships, mineral access and diplomatic support.

theconversation.com/facing-myr…

Facing myriad global pressures, Iran intensifies outreach to African partners for critical needs

Iran has sought to bolster its economic and security relationships on the continent after a punishing year both at home and in the Middle East.

^{The Conversation}

*#Trump's #xenophobia erupts 👉anew*
#MuslimBan expanded and joined by #Afrophobia👈

(2/n)

...according to an internal memo from the State Department..."

The 36 countries under review are all located in #Africa and the #Caribbean with high percentages of descendants of the Euro-American #Slave trade, apart from the #Muslim country of#Kyrgyzstan.

This comes on top of his threat of action against #Nigeria...

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev18j…

...and...

CC @UnitedStates

Trump tells military to plan for 'action' over his claim that Nigeria allows killing of Christians

The US president says his threat is over killings of Christians - though experts say there is no evidence they are disproportionately targeted.

^{Joseph Winter (BBC News)}

SA hands over G20 president to US at a low-key event sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sa-hands…

#SABC #SABCNews #Africa #SouthAfrica #News

SA hands over G20 president to US at a low-key event - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Dirco is apparently busy drafting a statement to provide more clarity.

^{Sipho Kekana (SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa\'s news leader.)}

#EastAfrica is leaving #Africa

it will take millions of years, but it is peeling off. From the #AfarDepression of #Ethiopia through the African Great Lakes and down past Malawi

There will be a 2nd Red Sea-like finger of the ocean, then a whole new ocean, and the Horn of Africa will be a new continent

What do we see of the process?

We see #HayliGubbi erupting yesterday

That hasn't happened in about 10,000 years

Merely a brief instant of geological time

theguardian.com/world/2025/nov…

#Volcano