South Africa’s latest surge is a possible preview of the pandemic’s next chapter.

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/29/multimedia/29virus-briefing-south-africa/29virus-briefing-south-africa-moth.jpg Coro­n­avirus cas­es are surg­ing again in South Africa, and pub­lic health experts are mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion, eager to know what’s dri­ving the spike, what it says about immu­ni­ty from pre­vi­ous infec­tions and what its impli­ca­tions are glob­al­ly. South Africa expe­ri­enced a decline in cas­es after hit­ting an Omi­cron-fueled, pan­dem­ic peak in Decem­ber. But in…

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NOT OUR WAR: Africans fleeing Ukraine — BBC Africa Eye documentary

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It’s esti­mat­ed thou­sands of Africans were among more than five mil­lion refugees flee­ing the Russ­ian inva­sion of Ukraine. As they tried to escape the car­nage, many Africans were treat­ed like sec­ond class cit­i­zens. Reports of dis­crim­i­na­tion at Ukraine’s west­ern bor­ders were wide­spread with the UN High Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees acknowl­edg­ing racist treat­ment. BBC Africa journalist,…

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Where Foreign Correspondents Capitulated to Autocracy

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https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/2plDsX419WN-NEHCWNv91W0l240=/960x540/media/img/mt/2022/04/AP22116510820035/original.jpg When Allan Au didn’t post his Wor­dle score on Face­book one morn­ing this month, his friends began to wor­ry. For Au, a long­time jour­nal­ist and media train­er in Hong Kong, the rit­u­al was less about flex­ing his vocab­u­lary skills than a delib­er­ate way to indi­cate that he was still free. His friends, it turned…

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New tools for easing cross-border trade in Africa

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/border-crossing-kenya-tanzania.jpg?w=280 Mike Ogbalu, CEO of the Pan-African Pay­ment Set­tle­ment Sys­tem (PAPSS) at the African Export-Import Bank, dis­cuss­es PAPSS, a cross bor­der, finan­cial mar­ket infra­struc­ture enabling pay­ment trans­ac­tions across Africa. Relat­ed Con­tent Fore­sight Africa pod­cast is part of the Brook­ings Pod­cast Net­work. Sub­scribe and lis­ten on Apple, Spo­ti­fy, and wher­ev­er you lis­ten to pod­casts. Send feed­back email to podcasts@brookings.edu,…

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Harvard Creates Fund to Redress Its Ties to Slavery

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Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty is com­mit­ting $100 mil­lion to study and redress its ties to slav­ery, the university’s pres­i­dent announced Tues­day, and with that mon­ey will cre­ate an endowed “Lega­cy of Slav­ery Fund,” which will con­tin­ue research­ing and memo­ri­al­iz­ing that his­to­ry, work­ing with descen­dants of Black and Native Amer­i­can peo­ple enslaved at Har­vard, as well as their…

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EMEA: Central African Republic Embraces Crypto | PYMNTS.com

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In today’s top Europe, Mid­dle East and Africa (EMEA) news, Cen­tral African Repub­lic Finance Min­is­ter Herve Ndo­ba said the use of cryp­tocur­ren­cies in the nation’s econ­o­my is com­ing, while London’s Tru­eLay­er has intro­duced vari­able recur­ring pay­ments (VRP). Plus, Face­book own­er Meta and Google pledged to per­mit only reg­is­tered finan­cial firms to adver­tise pro­mo­tions on their…

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Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a Solution

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It is a per­fect mar­riage for an age of plu­toc­ra­cy: Twit­ter with its seri­ous prob­lems and Elon Musk, the embod­i­ment of those prob­lems. What hap­pens when the incar­na­tion of a prob­lem buys the right to decide what the prob­lem is and how to fix it? Twit­ter has a dis­in­for­ma­tion prob­lem — fake news about Covid vac­cines, cli­mate and more…

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