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Kenya Signs Landmark Health Deal With US Despite Data Fears
Jide Oyekunle, Abuja
Kenya has signed a historic five-year health agreement with the US, the first such pact since Donald Trump’s administration overhauled its foreign aid programme.
The $2.5bn (£1.9bn) deal is aimed at combating infectious diseases such asHIV/Aids, malaria, and tuberculosis, maternal care, polio eradication and infectious disease outbreak response and preparedness in Kenya, with similar agreements expected to be rolled out in other African countries aligned with Trump’s broader foreign policy goals.
The government-to-government deal aims to boost transparency and accountability but has raised fears it could give the US real-time access to critical health databases, including sensitive patient information.
Kenya’s Health Minister Aden Duale sought to allay such fears, saying “only de-identified, aggregated data” would be shared.
On his first day in office in January, Trump announced a freeze on foreign aid as part of a government...
Labour’s Historic Victory Belies Deep Fault Lines in British Politics
Politics tamfitronics Keir Starmer has won a huge parliamentary majority—despite a fall in the Labour vote.Labour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, Lady Starmer, enter 10 Downing Street following Labour’s landslide election victory on July 5, 2024, in London.(Carl Court / Getty Images)Britain’s general election saw the Labour Party achieve its biggest majority since 1997, yet it did so with less popular support (9.69 million votes) than in the last election in 2019 (10.27 million) when it suffered its worst defeat—in terms of seats in Parliament—since 1935. Even allowing for the usual vagaries of the first-past-the-post system in Westminster elections, this mismatch between votes and seats is extraordinary.So, what happened? The electoral arithmetic is that Labour made huge gains primarily because Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party split the right-wing...
