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            <title>Iran war disruption threatening delivery of lifesaving supplies for children, UN says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Surging global transport costs and supply chain disruptions linked to the Middle East crisis are threatening the delivery of lifesaving aid to children, the United Nations children's agency warned on Tuesday. Nearly 100 days after the outbreak of the Iran war, heightened insecurity around key Gulf shipping routes has driven up fuel prices and insurance premiums, while congestion at alternative ports has compounded disruptions, hampering aid deliveries. UN children's agency UNICEF said it was increasingly relying on air freight due to shipping delays. In the first quarter alone, the agency nearly exhausted annual contributions from logistics partners that donate charter flights, as it flew supplies into Lebanon and Gaza amid delays of up to four to six weeks. ]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Moderna and other groups get $60m to develop Ebola vaccine</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global health organisation CEPI will give roughly $60-million to Moderna and to two other groups to accelerate the development of shots against Ebola Bundibugyo, the deadly virus that has swept through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations was one of the early investors that helped to develop a vaccine at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Richard Hatchett, head of CEPI, told Reuters it was possible to get vaccines against Ebola Bundibugyo ready for trials within a couple of months. There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Ebola Bundibugyo. "Every day counts in the race against this deadly disease,” Hatchett said. ]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Kenyan high court suspends plan for US Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Kenyan high court has ordered the temporary suspension of plans for the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility in the country. High Court Judge Patricia Nyaundi said in her orders late on Thursday that Kenya was also not allowed to admit anyone exposed to or infected by Ebola under the planned agreement with the United States, until a case challenging the deal was heard and determined. On Thursday, the White House said the US was setting up a facility in Kenya to quarantine US citizens who had been exposed to Ebola, and would not bring them home if they develop symptoms, but instead send them to a third country.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>US puts its focus on keeping Ebola cases out of the country</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The United States on Wednesday said it must prevent any cases of Ebola from entering the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak has already caused a suspected 220 deaths and 900 cases. The World Health ​Organization has declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo ​strain of ⁠Ebola the third-largest such outbreak on record, and a public health emergency of international concern. "We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday at President Donald Trump's cabinet meeting. The Trump administration's response, which it says aims to contain Ebola to the outbreak region, is a departure from the 2014 Ebola outbreak when the US treated patients in some of its 13 specialised infectious disease centers.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>US planning quarantine facility in Kenya for citizens exposed to Ebola</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The US and Kenya are in discussions for the US to open a facility in Kenya to quarantine its citizens if they have been exposed to the Ebola outbreak centred on the Democratic Republic of Congo, a US official told Reuters on Wednesday. The facility would be staffed by members of the US Public Health Service, a uniformed branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Kenya's government has not yet approved the plan and has sought increased foreign assistance in exchange, the US official said. It is unclear where the facility might be located. Korir Sing'oei, a top official at Kenya's foreign ministry, said he was not fully apprised of the situation and was not aware of the request for additional assistance.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Informal land ownership a major issue globally, highlights World Bank</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of the world's assets are in land and buildings, highlighted World Bank global leader in land Mikka-Petteri Törhönen in a presentation at the XXVIII Congress of the International Federation of Surveyors (better known as FIG), at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The total value of the assets concerned came to about $415-trillion.  But when it came to land, there was still a lot of "informal" land ownership -- that is, not formally registered and recorded with the authorities -- worldwide, he pointed out. ]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <title>Secretive deals, aggressive demands are new US foreign aid tactics</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On a Friday last November, government officials representing Lesotho, a mountainous enclave in eastern South Africa, sat down in the capital Maseru for three hours of negotiations with Trump administration counterparts. Earlier that year, the US suddenly cancelled funding for healthcare programmes in the country as part of billions of dollars in cuts to international aid. For Lesotho, a nation of 2.4-million people with the unhappy distinction of having the world’s second-highest HIV rate and the fourth-highest tuberculosis rate, the loss of support threatened thousands of lives. To unlock future funding, the US wanted something back. While previous US assistance came with few strings attached — and never included commercial terms — documents seen by Bloomberg detailed the conditions the Trump administration expected. ]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Eswatini quickly embraced Trump's deportee programme despite doubts over legality</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Upon learning through the US embassy that President Donald Trump was looking for African nations to take in deported third-country migrants, Eswatini was one of the first to volunteer despite questions over the legality of the programme. According to three senior government sources briefed on the matter, Prime Minister Russell Dlamini met then-Acting US Charge d'Affaires Caitlin Piper in mid-February last year to discuss the matter in private. Dlamini took the proposal to King Mswati III, who marked 40 years on the throne of the mountainous southern African nation in April. Mswati listened and immediately agreed to host the deportees, two of the sources said, describing previously unreported closed-door talks.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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