In todays bulletin, Zimbabwe’s new law redefines Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) to include all legal entities seeking external funding, removing previous exemptions for registered trusts. General Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a 2023 coup that ended Gabon’s decades-long Bongo dynasty, has won the presidential election with over 90% of the vote, according to provisional results. Rising temperatures are making allergy seasons longer and more intense, but experts warn that climate change is also causing extreme allergy events. One such disaster struck Melbourne, Australia, in November 2016, when a thunderstorm shattered trillions of pollen particles, turning the air deadly.
