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New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): High Commissioner of Seychelles to India, Harisoa Lalatiana Accouche, on Saturday hailed the successful visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Seychelles and underlined the importance of the island nation as a strategic location for Indian businesses to expand their footprint into Africa and West Asia. Speaking to the…

Uganda did not send a high-level delegation to the funeral of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo emerging as East Africa’s most prominent representatives at the ceremony amid claims—yet to be independently verified—that the United States lobbied countries to limit their participation.

Self-testing has become one of the most attractive ideas in epidemic preparedness: fast, decentralized, easy to scale, and potentially useful in health systems where laboratory capacity is limited. However, a new modelling study on epidemic-prone diseases in Africa delivers a sharp warning for policymakers: distributing test kits is not the same as controlling transmission