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Novartis secures Swiss approval for first-ever malaria treatment for infants, newborns
News9 Live
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July 9, 2025
Health News With this move, Novartis reinforces its role in global public health by closing a longstanding treatment gap for one of the most at-risk populations in the fight against malaria. Zurich: Pharmaceutical giant Novartis has announced that...
A Primer for the White House Visit by Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal
Front Page Africa
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July 10, 2025
A few months ago, the Chairman of the Africa and Global Health Policy Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Ted Cruz, hosted a roundtable discussion that tackled energy and critical mineral partnerships with the...
Harmattan hazards: How coastal west Africa can escape the Sahel’s fate
European Council on Foreign Relations
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July 10, 2025
Summary Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo, are under pressure from two threats: jihadists and putschists. In these west African coastal states, armed Islamist groups increasingly cross northern borders, wreaking havoc. Civilian governments are...
War Makes the World Sick... Literally
Common Dreams
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July 9, 2025
War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken...
Real and fake antidotes to Trump's latest tariffs, seen from South Africa
CADTM
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July 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base –...
What PM Modi’s Five-Nation Tour Achieved: Global South Ties And Countering China | Finepoint
News18
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July 10, 2025
Last Updated:July 10, 2025, 14:37 IST A shared theme among these countries is their desire to counterbalance China—and in doing so, they find comfort in partnering with India. PM Narendra Modi's 5-nation tour included visiting Ghana, Namibia,...
First Malaria Treatment Approved for Infants Under 5kg
News Ghana
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July 8, 2025
Pharmaceutical company Novartis announced Swiss regulatory approval Tuesday for Coartem Baby, the first malaria treatment specifically developed for babies and young children weighing less than 5 kilograms. This approval addresses a critical...
Africa’s plants: a database project has recorded 65,000 species – and is still growing
The Conversation
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July 10, 2025
The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and Madagascar. Since 2006, every plant species ever documented in Africa and Madagascar has been included in the massive online...
First Malaria treatment for babies approved
Africanews
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July 9, 2025
For the first time ever, a malaria treatment has been approved for infants, according to a press release by pharmaceutical company Novartis on Tuesday. Eight African countries participated in the assessment of the breakthrough medicine and are...
Novartis Gets Approval for First Malaria Drug for Babies
This Day
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July 10, 2025
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Novartis has received approval in Switzerland for Coartem Baby, which it said was the first drug to treat malaria in babies and very young children, a process Nigeria was hugely involved in, a Reuters report said. Eight...
CBN's Asian Center for Missions Celebrates 30 Years of Reaching the Unreached
CBN News
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July 10, 2025
MAKATI CITY, Philippines – In 1994, Gordon Robertson was in the Philippines to follow up on The Answer evangelistic campaign when he had a dream of boatloads of Filipinos going out into the mission field. "I had just come from a short term mission...
First malaria treatment for babies is approved
Semafor
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Medicine to treat babies and young infants suffering from malaria has been approved for the first time and is expected to be rolled out in Africa within weeks. Malaria treatment for infants weighing less than 4.5 kilograms has been unavailable...
First malaria drug for infants receives approval
BGNES
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July 9, 2025
The first malaria drug for newborns and infants has been approved by Swiss health regulators. Eight African countries are ready to launch the drug on the market in the near future. This was announced by pharmaceutical giant Novartis. Malaria is a...
What the Critical Minerals Race Means for Women
Foreign Policy
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July 10, 2025
The race for critical and rare-earth mineral dominance is escalating, underscored by the Trump administration’s recent agreement with Ukraine. Demand for critical minerals—which power clean energy, artificial intelligence, and much more—is now...
Namibia breaks hunger chains … govt’s drought efforts lauded
New Era
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Improved climate conditions, government policy and strategic interventions as well as strong drought-mitigating strategies played a crucial role in Namibia’s reclassification as a hunger hotspot. Namibia has since been removed from the Food and...
African CSOs, Japan share people centred aspirations
Botswana Guardian Sun
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July 10, 2025
The African civil society is gearing up to optimise engagement with the Japanese government and private enterprises during the upcoming ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), scheduled for 22 August 2025. In a...
Morocco ranks 2nd in Africa for political party activity, says African Exponent
Hespress
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July 10, 2025
A new ranking by The African Exponent, a platform specializing in economic analysis and rankings, placed Morocco second among the top 10 African countries with the most active political parties. Morocco scored 5.68 points, reflecting a dynamic...
Illness and Endless Wars
TomDispatch
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July 8, 2025
War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken...
First malaria treatment for newborn babies approved for use
News India Times
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July 8, 2025
The first malaria drug for newborn babies and those weighing less than 11 pounds has been approved by Swiss medical authorities in a move that could fill a treatment gap for some of those most vulnerable to the disease, developers and experts say....
ECOWAS: Agenda for President Julius Maada Bio
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 10, 2025
The new chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, has his job cut out in the pursuit of peace, economic cooperation, stability, and human flourishing in the sub-region. His...