Africa: Who Will Watch the Clinics Now? Ritshidze Forced to Shrink After US Aid Cuts

Africa: Who Will Watch the Clinics Now? Ritshidze Forced to Shrink After US Aid Cuts

Ritshidze, the world’s largest community-led monitoring system, is in jeopardy following the cuts to U.S development aid announced in January. Established in 2019, Ritshidze monitored service delivery and the availability of essential medicines at over 450 clinics in 25 health districts across eight provinces in the country every quarter. Its purpose is to document, report…

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Africa: Who Will Watch the Clinics Now? Ritshidze Forced to Shrink After US Aid Cuts

Africa: Nigeria Health Watch to Host the First Solutions Journalism Africa Summit

For decades, media coverage of Africa has been dominated by a narrow and often negative lens, focusing largely on poverty, hunger, corruption, and conflict. While these issues exist, they have too often overshadowed the continent’s diverse realities and thriving innovations. According to Africa No Filter, Africa loses up to $4.2 billion annually due to unrepresentative…

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Watch as Mexican Senate debate ends in brawl

Watch as Mexican Senate debate ends in brawl

A tense debate in the Mexican Senate descended into a brawl between two of the chamber’s most senior politicians on Wednesday. Senator Alejandro Moreno, of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), grabbed the president of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, demanding to be allowed to speak. After some pushing and shoving, Moreno threw punches and…

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Africa: Who Will Watch the Clinics Now? Ritshidze Forced to Shrink After US Aid Cuts

Africa: Nigeria Health Watch Announces Fellows for the 2025 Solutions Journalism West Africa Fellowship

Nigeria Health Watch is pleased to announce the selection of 10 fellows for the Solutions Journalism West Africa Fellowship, a four-month programme designed to strengthen the practice of solutions-oriented health reporting in West Africa. Selected from a pool of over 100 submissions from 10 countries, the fellows bring diverse expertise in news writing, radio production,…

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