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Laurent Muschel, HERA Director General, and Jean Kaseya, Africa CDC Director General, stand near mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Justin Makangara/File Photo

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Airbus launches white paper on aerospace technologies in Africa

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Nigerian children receiving the polio vaccine in Lagos. EPA

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Zim only has two pathologists

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CTICC hosts AI robot Miss Pepper

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