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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: Africa

UN Economic Commission estimates Covid-19 may kill 3,00,000 in Africa despite interventions

Alonso Soto -
Overcrowded slums with no access to water & fragile health-care systems make Africa especially vulnerable, the Addis Ababa-based body said in a report.

One thing common in most pandemics: They begin their deadly work in Asia or Africa

Suresh V Kuchipudi -
Coronaviruses alone have caused three global outbreaks in the last 20 years. Even more troubling, the duration between these three pandemics has gotten shorter.

These wildlife sanctuaries in India could host cheetahs brought in from Africa

Mohana Basu -
Based on a 2010 govt report, ThePrint lists the sites that could be used to serve as cheetah habitat in India, including the Kuno sanctuary in MP.

How Google images helped us pin down the diet of Africa’s largest eagle

Vincent Naude -
Martial eagles are in rapid decline in Africa. So we trawled through 4,872 photos to find out the problem.

How African footballers playing in Europe spend their money

Ernest Yeboah Acheampong -
When deciding how to give back, the players considered those who had significantly contributed to their professional football careers.

Alongside Modi, G7 members have 8 more ‘special invitees’ for company in Biarritz

Srijan Shukla -
Apart from the 7 permanent members, this year France and G7 president Emmanuel Macron has extended invitation to 9 other nations including India.

Nollywood to oil: Nigeria is now Africa’s powerhouse

Kate Whiting -
Nigeria's GDP surpassed that of South Africa about a decade ago, according to the World Bank.

Promising cures found for Ebola and TB, and Bill Hader’s Tom Cruise deep fake goes viral

Sandhya Ramesh -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them.

Africa’s cities are about to boom – and maybe explode

Judd Devermont -
Africa is urbanised, and its future in joining the global economy rests on the success or failure of cities, not rural communities.

Youthful Africa to overtake aging Asia in workforce

Alex Tanzi -
The number of 15-to-64-year-old Africans today is a quarter of the size of Asia’s working-age population. By 2100, however, Africa will surpass Asia.
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Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

K. Kalyani -
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

The Beckhams’ PR game is on track. Victoria’s 50th birthday was a pop culture moment

BJP 2024 manifesto on investment, farm income, panchayati raj—lack of clarity is worrying

Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

ThePrint Team -
The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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