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Mauritania on the brink as Madagascar, Burkina Faso fight for survival
The Standard
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El Mami Tetah (left) of Mauritania battles for the ball with Moumou Diallo of Burkina Faso during the CHAN Group B clash at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es salaam, Tanzania on August 13, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Host Tanzania’s Taifa...
Saudi Arabia, Mauritania Partnership Aims to Produce 14 Mln Tons of Iron Annually
Asharq Al-Awsat
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August 15, 2025
Mauritania and Saudi Arabia are working to launch a strategic iron mining partnership as part of efforts to expand economic cooperation and boost mutual investments, Mauritania’s ambassador to Riyadh said. Ambassador Moktar Ould Dahi told Asharq...
Ambulance Service Delivers Lifesaving Care To Malian Refugees In Mauritania
MENAFN
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August 13, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, August 13, 2025/APO Group/ -- In the remote southeastern corner of Mauritania, more than 60 000 Malian refugees displaced by conflict are rebuilding their lives. Until recently, a...
Mauritania faces drug market challenges amid efforts to restore public trust
Hespress
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August 9, 2025
Widespread concerns over counterfeit drugs, cross-border smuggling and limited compliance with medical prescriptions are fueling a crisis of confidence in Mauritania’s pharmaceutical sector, prompting some patients to seek medications through...
Sexual health is an extra struggle for women with disabilities
Independent (Uganda)
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August 12, 2025
Findings from 10 African countries, including Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya in East Africa ANALYSIS | OBASANJO BOLARINWA, ALI MOHAMMED & CLIFFORD OBBY ODIMEGWU | Even after more than three decades of global efforts to promote inclusive sexual and...
BioMark Diagnostics Establishes African Market Presence Through Strategic Tunisia Healthcare Partnership
The Kingston Whig-Standard
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August 12, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Newsfile Proof-of-Concept Trial Opens Door to 90+ Million Population Across North Africa and Francophone Markets Article content Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – August 12, 2025) – BioMark Diagnostics Inc. (CSE:...
WADPN Calls On ECOWAS, National Governments To Protect Marginalized People
News Ghana
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August 18, 2025
The West Africa Drug Policy Network (WADPN) and its partners have called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and national governments, particularly in Ghana, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso, to take decisive steps towards...
How to ensure sexual health policies include Africa’s women with disabilities
BusinessLIVE
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Even after more than three decades of global efforts to promote inclusive sexual and reproductive health policies, many women with disabilities in Africa still face serious challenges. Their rights are often overlooked, and they have limited...
Medicines that kill
Next is Africa
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It's a daily scourge that is quietly gaining ground, growing and worsening year by year. Between coups d'état, wars, terrorism, droughts and other distressing events plaguing the continent, no-one seems to be paying much attention to it. Yet drug...
From Senegal to The Gambia: Imam Bacchus reflects on Slave Trade atrocities
Caribbean Life - New York
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August 17, 2025
Imam Shaykh Safraz Bacchus, center engaged several African children during his 2024 trip to continue his humanitarian work, He distributed school supplies and food hampers. Photo courtesy of Imam Shaykh Safraz Bacchus Guyanese-born Imam Shaykh...
Ophthalmic Changes in the Offspring of Pregnant Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus or Diabetes Mellitus – A Systematic Review
Dove Medical Press
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August 18, 2025
Introduction Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as first occurred or recognized glucose intolerance during pregnancy, in spite of the requirement for insulin therapy, degree of the metabolic disorder, or duration of the condition after...
Sexual health is an extra struggle for women with disabiliti...
Modern Ghana
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Even after more than three decades of global efforts to promote inclusive sexual and reproductive health policies, many women with disabilities in Africa still face serious challenges. Their rights are often overlooked, and they have limited...
Sexual health is an extra struggle for women with disabilities: findings from 10 African countries
The Conversation
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August 7, 2025
Even after more than three decades of global efforts to promote inclusive sexual and reproductive health policies, many women with disabilities in Africa still face serious challenges. Their rights are often overlooked, and they have limited...
رايد كلاس ClassRide: A Success Story Born in Africa, From Mauritania to the Continent
ABC Money
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August 5, 2025
The path taken by رايد كلاس ClassRide is a great test of this assertion. It’s a story of triumph that began in Mauritania, a West African nation, and has grown in stages to influence daily life across the African continent. Mauritania, with its...
CHAN 2024: Morocco Beat 10-Man Angola as Madagascar and Mauritania Settle for a Draw.
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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August 4, 2025
By Nabakiibi Doreen Malaika Day 2 at CHAN 2024 served up tight margins and big moments, with Morocco edging Angola 2-0 and Madagascar and Mauritania sharing the points in a goalless draw. Morocco’s win came in a cagey affair, sealed by a clinical...
Mauritania's new US friendship group fuels anger amid Gaza war
The New Arab
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July 24, 2025
The US has provided Israel at least $17.9 billion in military aid since 7 October 2023. [Getty] In Mauritania, a newly launched parliamentary friendship group between Nouakchott and the United States has ignited outrage in the Northwest African...
Mauritania-China relations at their best in history: gov't adviser
Xinhua News Agency
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NOUAKCHOTT, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Relations between Mauritania and China have steadily developed since diplomatic ties were established on July 19, 1965, and are now at their best point in history, Yarbane Kharrachi, an adviser to the minister of...
5 ways to take action to support people and ocean health
Greenpeace International
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July 29, 2025
While coastal and Indigenous communities have been sustainably managing the ocean, protecting biodiversity and safeguarding a healthy climate for all for centuries, destructive fishing and industrial exploitation is harming people’s health and...
Luminous Success Story Inaugurated in Mauritania
The Good Men Project - California
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July 30, 2025
— We often associate successful stories with developed and advanced countries or big tech hubs in Europe or Asia, or technological industries like Silicon Valley in the US. But surprisingly powerful innovations sometimes originate in unexpected...
India has highest rate of wasting in the world, despite 30% decrease in undernourishment since 2006: UN food security & nutrition report
Down to Earth
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As much as 18.7 per cent of Indian children under the age of five suffered from wasting in 2024, the highest rate in the world, according to the United Nations’ 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report released on July...