The Brookings Institution hosted this 90 minute forum. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Thank you for making some time for discussions on africa issues. Coming to brookings and coming to brookings on this day right smack in the middle when many people are at the beach. We would like to welcome you. By ae joined as well professor at st. Lawrence university, the university of which we frequently Work Together on africa issues, which also runs an Excellent Program and nairobi that just celebrated its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni along on a trip. Finally, joining the panel is john from freedom house. Africas with their program and previously worked in the Obama Administrations policy planning staff. I would like to thank john for an article he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs on some of the promising Democratic Movement in africa. We added kenya and tanzania to the list, along with south africa demo cap africa,
In only their third ever test match. And coming up two arsenal stars are targetted in a carjacking attempt, by an armed gang in a london street. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9am. More disruption is expected on parts of the rail network today, after yesterdays high temperatures caused extensive damage. Network rail feared rail lines would buckle in yesterdays extreme heat. But with speed restrictions in place, that didnt happen. What did cause pandemonium yesterday, however, was damage caused by trains to overhead cables when the cables sagged in the heat, causing some fires. This left some commuters stuck in london late into the night. Repair work has been ongoing throughout the night but only half of the tracks north out of london st pancras have been fixed, meaning a significantly reduced service. East Midlands Trains has urged passengers not to travel to london st pancras from nottingham and sheffield. Its put an emergency timetable in place. Thameslink services which
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Search and rescue operation at a mine in the amur region under the rubble of soil 13 miners, we are waiting for a report from the field our military correspondent eduard punigov from the front line in the southern donetsk direction. The enemy is conducting a targeted hunt for hailstones. A downed american humvee near kurakhovo destroyed the Drone Control center. On the banks of the dnieper. Send everyone to the front. The american senator called on zelensky for total mobilization, but did not promise help to kiev. And frost fires immediately in the seaside. At 20, dead wood burns on thousands of hectares. The fire reached the villages. Masterpieces of serov korovin, roerich, damaged by the shelling of taganrog was restored. How the restorers of the Russian Museum worked. Going home. Russian units destroyed a ukrainian howitzer and a mortar crew in the border areas of the belgorod region. The tankers hit the targets from a distance of 9 km. The position of the ukrainian militants was di
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