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[Nigeria Health Watch] Human mobility has always been an essential aspect of life. Beyond the essential physiological and psychological motivations to move, the constant quest for better living conditions, often drives migration. This has implications for public health policy, highlighting the need to consider trends in health worker migration in the formulation of health strategies and interventions.

[Vanguard] ·Gets the backing of 58 member countries

[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville/Dakar -- In a significant move to combat the ongoing challenge of variant poliovirus transmission in Central and West Africa, Ministers of Health from the Lake Chad Basin countries and Sahel sub-region have published this week a comprehensive cross-border coordination plan for 2024/2025. This critical initiative aims to bolster joint efforts to eradicate polio and prevent its spread across national borders, ensuring a safer and healthier future for millions of children.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) has guaranteed that the northern province of Cabo Delgado, which has been plagued by extreme violence carried out by Islamist terrorists, presents enough security conditions to hold the presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections scheduled for 9 October.

[Premium Times] Petrol sourced from Dangote Refinery in Lagos will now cost more than gasoline imported from abroad.

[New Times] Three West African countries, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, will be launching a new biometric passport "in the coming days" as part of their withdrawal from the wider regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), according to reports.

[Addis Standard] The third round of talks between Ethiopia and Somalia, initially scheduled for Tuesday, 17 September, 2024, in Ankara, Turkey, has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts with the United Nations General Assembly, according to diplomatic sources.

[VOA] Lusaka, Zambia -- As Zambia deals with its worst drought in 20 years, businesses and households are going for days without electricity. Experts say the severe energy crisis could worsen Zambia 's already fragile economy and lead to massive job losses.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The country is once again carrying out the General Census of Population and Housing, this time with the introduction of the digital mode, ten years after the first more comprehensive and complex statistical exercise recorded in the post-independence period.

[Dabanga] Khartoum Bahri -- Daily aerial and artillery bombardment by both sides of the conflict kills the city of Bahri (Khartoum North), including those dying of starvation and disease. Looting is also widespread in the city by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldiers and drug supply centres supervised by activists are collecting medicines from different areas.

[VOA] Mbabane, Eswatini -- Some Eswatini legislators, backed by human rights activists, are calling for an urgent review of the Game Act of 1991, a law they say allows wildlife park rangers to shoot and kill suspected poachers with little or no accountability.

[DW] Unprecendented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An estimated four million people -- most of them children -- are caught up in the devastation.

[Daily Trust] The senator representing Borno South, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has asked the federal government to dredge communities affected by flooding in Borno State to ease out water so that residents who are trapped can be rescued.

[VOA] Maiduguri, Nigeria -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has approved the immediate release of $8 million dollars to support victims in flood ravaged Maiduguri, in Nigeria's Borno state. Severe flooding there last week killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands of others.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi Leader President Lazarus Chakwera has re -confirmed his commitment towards leading the country beyond 2025.

[Premium Times] "Things are happening; they are finishing (killing) us, and if it continues like this, what will happen to the young generation?" Mr Sububu said in the six-minute video.

[Africom] Stuttgart -- The U.S. Department of Defense and the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Niger announce that the withdrawal of U.S. forces and assets from Niger is complete.

[FrontPageAfrica] Harrisburg -- U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, Mark Toner, has reaffirmed the United States' commitment to Liberia's energy sector during a recent tour of the Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant. After a two-hour visit to the facility, Ambassador Toner expressed his satisfaction with the progress made, highlighting that the plant's success could attract significant foreign direct investment to Liberia.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- President Joseph Nyumah Boakai has commissioned Hon. Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan as Liberia's new Minister of Finance. The appointment, made by His Excellency Joseph Nyumah Boakai, President of the Republic of Liberia, reflects a significant step toward fulfilling the ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development--a framework that played a crucial role in the President's electoral success.

[ISS] Boko Haram factions continually adapt to new counter-terrorism tactics, so strategies must be flexible and systematic.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that Addis Abeba will emerge as a key urban hotspot in Africa by 2035.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), once a powerful party in Ethiopian politics, is now grappling with severe internal divisions that jeopardize the stability of the region and impede its recovery efforts.

[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The head of the U.S-Africa Command (Africom) - a unit of the U.S. military responsible for operations on the continent - said the U.S. strategy on the continent will remain "partnership-centric" and led by Africans themselves, whether they are "dealing with violent extremism or transnational crimes".

[IPS] As heads of state and government fly into New York for the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future (September 22-30), 2.3 billion mothers, fathers, and children are unsure where their next meal will come from. Millions face the terror of brutal, protracted armed conflicts that make no distinction between civilians and soldiers.

[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- The former ruling Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), risks losing the grounds that hosted its headquarters for about two decades with the courts issuing an eviction order, but the party's Secretary General, Jefferson Koijee, has vowed to resist what he termed as ïmaginary eviction by Joseph Boakai".

[Ghanaian Times] The Chinese government will provide $50.6 billion of financial support through the next three years to African countries for the implementation of the 10 partnership actions reached at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) recently held in China, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Tong Defa, has said.

[New Zimbabwe] A HELICOPTER belonging to the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) crashed shortly after takeoff at Masvingo Airport during a significant day for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was celebrating his 82nd birthday and the launch of Munhumutapa Day.

[allAfrica] Online victim blaming and efforts to justify intimate partner violence are still prevalent, according to a new report by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC).

[Capital FM] Nyeri -- Stop the focus on the 2027 election and spend time serving the people, President William Ruto has told leaders.

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[OCP] To increase the supply of sustainable water for fertilizer production, farmers and households in Morocco, IFC today announced a €100 million loan (about US$108 million) to OCP Group, the world leader in plant nutrition solutions and phosphate-based fertilizers.

[allAfrica] The Board of Directors of AllAfrica mourns the untimely death of founding member Richard V. Tolbert, Sr. who passed away in Monrovia on September 2nd.

[AAI] AAI's 40th Annual Awards Gala to feature a Presidential Fireside Chat with H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana, and H.E. Joseph Boakai, President of the Republic of Liberia.