Minerals for aid: Are new US health deals ‘exploiting’ African countries?
Zimbabwe and Zambia have pushed back against ‘lopsided’ agreements after US asks for health data and minerals.

Zimbabwe and Zambia have pushed back against ‘lopsided’ agreements after US asks for health data and minerals.





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At least 40 medical workers among those killed as rights groups urge Israel to end attacks on Lebanon health facilities.
Argentinian President Javier Milei has criticised the global health body for its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cooking gas shortages in Gaza force families to burn wood and plastic, exposing mothers and children to dangerous smoke.
Withdrawal of life support granted to family of 32-year-old man who has been in vegetative state for more than 12 years.
Nearly 160 deaths recorded across the premier engineering colleges in past two decades – 69 of them in last five years.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says children, the elderly at particular risk after damage to Iranian petroleum facilities.
As toxic clouds and rain smother Tehran, analysts say Israel’s aims is to break the resilience of the Iranian people.

Residents in Tehran are flocking to blood donation centres, responding to growing medical needs and fears of shortages.

101 East joins doctors on board a medical train delivering vital healthcare to Kazakhstan’s most remote communities.

Seventeen aid groups have petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court after the government moved to ban 37 NGOs in Gaza.