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IMF Slashes Sub-Saharan Africa's Growth Forecast For 2025 • Apr. 25, 2025, 9:13 PM ET (The Reporter)
Sub-Saharan Africa must lift revenue to ride out global turbulence - IMF Africa head • Apr. 25, 2025, 6:13 AM ET (Reuters)
Trump to gut US diplomacy in Africa, cut global soft power: report • Apr. 21, 2025, 3:48 AM ET (South China Morning Post)
Call for urgent support as US funding cuts threaten HIV/AIDS programs • Apr. 9, 2025, 4:46 AM ET (News-Medical)
Tunisia dismantles sub-Saharan migrant camps and forcibly deports some • Apr. 6, 2025, 3:48 AM ET (Straits Times)

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