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Libya’s Polio-Free Status Reaffirmed: Libyan National Center for Disease Control ✍️The WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Regional Certification Commission has officially accepted Libya’s updated 2025 annual report on polio eradication, the country’s NCDC announced. 👉The decision reflects Libya’s commitment to epidemiological surveillance standards and the effectiveness of its national immunization program, the NCDC said 🔍The commission also plans to meet with Libya’s national certification committee in 2027 to discuss further steps in the certification process. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 Sputnik Africa | X 🔸

🇲🇱🇷🇺 Watch Malian President Demonstrate His Marksmanship Skills Assimi Goïta participated in a precision shooting session during his visit to Russia for the Russia-Africa Summit. 📍 Patriot Park, Moscow region Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 Sputnik Africa | X 🔸

🇷🇺📹 Russian President Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square to mark National Unity Day. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

Russian Mortars Provide Assistance to Assault Units in Zaporozhye Region: MoD Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 Sputnik Africa | X 🔸

#viral | House on Their Shoulders: Indonesian Villagers Pull Off Epic Relocation 🇮🇩 The practice is a direct expression of Gotong Royong, Indonesia's national philosophy of mutual assistance and communal cooperation. 🤝 Villagers gather voluntarily to lift and carry the wooden stilt house to its new site, expecting no payment — the homeowner typically provides only food and drinks as a gesture of gratitude. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 Sputnik Africa | X 🔸

📊 US midterms ‘destined to change path of US politics’ – analyst As a result of the Democrats' victory, the balance of power inherent in the US system—which divides authority among the executive, legislature, and judiciary branches —has effectively collapsed, Anuradha Chenoy, a political analyst and retired professor at India's Jawaharlal Nehru University, told Sputnik. 🔶 “there will be a Republican President but the legislature will be Democrat” 🔶 “money bills and other ones will have to be passed by both chambers” 🔶 the chief executive still wields great powers, including the power of the veto, “meaning there will be delays and stalemates in the US political system” Domestic politics in America may change, but the foreign policy course probably won't—especially when it comes to the Iran war and US–Israel ties, Chenoy pointed out. 💬 “US legislators are the beneficiaries. While they want decent internal measures and succor for their constituents - they have little interest in the rest of the world,” the political scientist maintained. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

Egypt, Sudan Sign Water Infrastructure Reconstruction Deal: Egyptian FM 📄Egypt and Sudan have signed a memorandum of understanding to restore water facilities damaged by Sudan’s ongoing conflict and develop new projects during the third round of bilateral ministerial consultations, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry announced. Key areas of cooperation: ◼️Rehabilitating war-damaged water infrastructure. ◼️Strengthening flood protection and developing rainwater harvesting projects. ◼️Installing solar-powered drinking water stations. ◼️Providing technical training to improve Sudan’s water management capabilities. The agreement forms part of the Egyptian Initiative for the Development of Nile Basin Countries and aims to improve access to clean water while supporting Sudan’s recovery and reconstruction. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 Sputnik Africa | X 🔸

Western Plan to Structurally Weaken Russia Has Failed: Argentine Researcher 🎩 The idea of ​​the dismemberment of Russia "as a key way to solve the great dilemma of the Euro-Asian medium space" was defended by radical representatives of "the Anglo-Saxon, globalist establishment,", Professor at the National University of La Plata Gabriel Merino told Sputnik. 👉 Although weak but large enough to rise again as a great power, Russia had to be structurally weakened — all former Soviet republics kept under Western, not Moscow's, influence, Merino added. 🇺🇸 The RAND Corporation, a Pentagon think tank, published a 2019 report, which said the Ukraine conflict would stretch Russian resources to breaking point and destabilize the country, Merino recalled. 🔼 Far from being structurally weakened and with economy that is more expensive than Japan and Germany, Russia stands today as one of the great world powers, second only to the US and China, Merino clarified. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 Sputnik Africa | X 🔸

Ukraine Is Being Used as a ‘Battering Ram to Contain, Weaken and Break Up Russia’: Malian Blogger 🗣“External powers are deliberately driving a wedge between two peoples bound by historical, cultural and family ties,”Abdoulaye Diallo, President of Mali’s Network of Professional Communicators, Bloggers and Activists, told Sputnik Africa. According to him, Moscow “sees the Ukrainian conflict as a continuation of a Western strategy to exploit ethnic and regional differences”. The photo shows negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul in 2025. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 Sputnik Africa | X 🔸

'Russia Truly Supports African Sovereignty': Sputnik Africa Journalist Supporting a multipolar world order, Russia advocates for Africa to be heard and speak on equal terms, Zelalem Demessie said, commenting on Russia-Africa ties during a joint program of Sputnik Africa with EBC News. "Russia can bring education to Africa. It brings history to Africa. It brings energy expertise. It brings lots of things," he added. 🗣 Listen to the complete episode here. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 Sputnik Africa | X 🔸