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            <title>Ntshavheni raises concerns over Zuma’s India visit; briefs on immigration, Cabinet updates </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Minister in The Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni on July 3 briefed media on the outcomes of the Cabinet meeting held earlier this week, noting that former President Jacob Zuma’s actions on a visit to India were a “middle finger” to South Africans.   Ntshavheni was questioned on Cabinet’s response to widely circulated images which showed Zuma and South Africa's High Commissioner to India Anil Sooklal cavorting with one of the Gupta brothers in the country.]]></description>
            <author>Tasneem Bulbulia</author>
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            <title>Johannesburg in Brief: Local Government White Paper</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In May 2026, CDE convened a discussion on the draft Local Government White Paper led by Pascal Moloi, convenor of the White Paper review process and former City Manager of Johannesburg. Moloi argued that South Africa’s local government framework, developed in 1998, no longer reflects the realities facing municipalities. Many municipalities face declining infrastructure, financial pressure, weak governance and growing service delivery challenges.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its campaign to seize El Fasher in North Darfur state in Sudan, Amnesty International concluded in a major new report. The organization is now calling for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, and for the urgent deployment of an international force to protect civilians. City Under Siege, Children Under Fire: Rapid Support Forces' Crimes Against Humanity in North Darfur documents how civilians in and around El Fasher were killed, injured, beaten, tortured and detained between early 2024 and October 2025 as the RSF fought the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and allied Joint Forces in a war that devastated North Darfur. The RSF’s crimes included murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement, extermination and persecution.]]></description>
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            <title> Discrimination, Lack of Economic Autonomy and Violence Against Women in Cameroon </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For more than a decade, Cameroon’s government had publicly committed to halving violence against women by 2026, an ambitious and necessary goal in a country where women face widespread violence including physical, economic, psychological and emotional violence, both within the home and in public life, most often perpetrated by husbands, intimate partners, and male relatives. These abuses are not isolated incidents but are rooted in entrenched gender inequality, discriminatory laws, weak ...]]></description>
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            <title>Beyond Ceasefires-On-Paper: It’s Time to End All Israeli Hostilities in Lebanon </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite the announcement (and then extension) of a ceasefire agreement, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have continued unabated and Israeli forces continue to expand their occupation in southern Lebanon, as well as widening the range of Lebanese towns impacted by forced displacement orders, aggravating the rate of displacement across the country.  The number of people killed by Israeli attacks has continued to rise, with at least 380 individuals reportedly killed in less than a month since the onset of the ceasefire1. The total number of people killed since early March alone has reached 3 711, including 247 children and 132 health sector workers, whereas the number of people injured has reached 11 483, including 983 children and 393 health sector workers. ]]></description>
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            <title> Meaningful Outcomes Determine the Winners of the Health AI Race </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global investment in healthcare AI exceeded $18 billion in 2025, yet health systems still lack a shared understanding of the outcomes that investment should deliver. Meaningful Outcomes Determine the Winners of the Health AI Race – developed by the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Health and Healthcare in collaboration with LSE Health under the André Hoffmann Fellowship – argues that success in the health AI race will be determined not by technological sophistication but by which systems first identify and pursue the outcomes that matter most to patients, professionals and health systems.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The humanitarian system is facing a crisis of legitimacy. Recent funding trends highlight how the system, built for short-term emergencies, is now expected to manage the consequences of long-term political failure. Not only are humanitarian needs driven by underlying factors that rely on power imbalances and a lack of accountability, but the system is failing to provide answers to these as its own accountability is to the current power-holders and not to affected people. The Advisory Panel on the Future of Humanitarian Action proposes a move away from this faltering system towards an ecosystem approach, which would entail bolstering the local systems that already serve people in need, while addressing the power imbalances in terms of funding, decision-making, risk and accountability to help rebuild the political consensus around the collective importance of humanitarian action.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Youth Month draws to a close, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) releases a distressing report on the prevalence of sexual violence in schools. The report reveals the staggering pervasiveness of sexual violence in schools. Schools are intended to be safe spaces for learning, development, and the realisation of the right to basic education. When learners are subjected to sexual abuse – whether by educators, peers, staff members, service providers, or external ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Primary health facilities in low- and lower-middle-income countries often struggle to receive operational funding reliably and on time. Direct Facility Financing (DFF) - where funds are channelled directly to facilities to cover part of their running costs - has gained growing attention as a practical alternative to more complex, donor-driven financing models. Uganda is one of Africa's earliest and most fully developed examples of DFF, yet its experience has received remarkably little attention in the health financing literature. When Uganda abolished user fees in 2001, it needed a sustainable alternative to fund primary healthcare facilities. From 2007, it began channelling funds directly into facility bank accounts, embedding this system within its existing decentralisation and public financial management framework rather than creating parallel structures.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Agrifood systems face a convergence of global challenges: an accelerating climate crisis, rapid biodiversity and ecosystem loss, rising fragility and conflict and geopolitical shifts, all of which are reshaping the financial and political commitment underpinning international development cooperation. This brief examines the structural failures in climate and food systems policy and finance that leave women in climate-vulnerable agrifood contexts, from smallholder farmers to informal market vendors and post-harvest workers, most exposed and least supported.]]></description>
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