Hunger soars: Malnutrition is surging in Nigeria as the country grapples a cost-of-living crisis, according to nonprofit Doctors Without Borders. https://bloom.bg/4dalML1

Reform-funding gap: Zimbabwe needs to come up with $3.7 billion a year if it wants to achieve its vision of becoming an upper middle-income country by the end of the decade, the African Development Bank said. https://bloom.bg/3LUKWRx

Taps run dry: South African corporates, which have partnered with the government to revive failing transport and energy networks, are in talks with the state to deal with water availability, which the head of the nation’s business lobby said was “the next crisis.” https://bloom.bg/46zsZBL

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EXCLUSIVE: Adani Group is reworking its digital strategy to make its superapp an essential part of Indians’ lives.

Jeet Adani, the youngest of four heirs being groomed to take over the Adani empire, speaks to Bloomberg as part of an exclusive series where we take you inside Gautam Adani's succession plan. See interviews with Gautam Adani and all his successors here: https://bloom.bg/3yvZJ22

📷: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg

Conflicts, power struggles and instability are not uncommon when it comes to succession in Indian business families.

In this week’s India Edition, Menaka Doshi writes on the challenges billionaire Gautam Adani’s heirs could face. https://bloom.bg/3Ag2uVT

(This article is free to read)

Protests resume: Kenyan President William Ruto appointed 19 ministers approved by parliament, even as citizens resumed anti-government protests that led to the deaths of at least 61 people since mid-June. https://bloom.bg/3WVHCvW

Fraud charges: An independent inquiry acquitted the managing director of National Petroleum Corp. of Namibia on charges related to the transfer of funds to buy an oil block in Angola. https://bloom.bg/4dkRnd2

Dirty money: South Africa is intensifying its work to address shortcomings in tackling illicit financial flows so that it can exit a global dirty-money list, a top official at the nation’s financial regulator said. https://bloom.bg/4ch8B9I

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EXCLUSIVE: Adani Group is confident it can redevelop India's biggest slum by 2031 despite political pushback — a crucial statement ahead of state elections later this year.

Pranav Adani, the Adani heir tasked with the project, speaks exclusively to Bloomberg about the daunting task: https://bloom.bg/46BzVhH

📷: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg

Bloomberg exclusively speaks to Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his chosen successors about the most important transition in the history of the company.

Watch the full special here: https://bloom.bg/4dfS3Ae

Opposition crackdown: Tanzanian authorities detained hundreds of opposition leaders and supporters ahead of a planned rally to mark International Youth Day, a crackdown they said was necessary to avert the risk of violence. https://bloom.bg/3WG12nm

Higher stake: Vivendi's Canal+ plans to double its stake in MC Vision to become the majority shareholder of the Mauritian-based digital Pay-TV company, as the French firm seeks to boost its presence on the continent. https://bloom.bg/3M0UU3V

Border feud: Zambia’s trade minister planned to meet with counterparts in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday to resolve a trade spat over beer and other beverages that led to the weekend closure of their border, delaying copper exports. https://bloom.bg/46HbD62

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Mayor resigns: The mayor of Johannesburg has quit after months of political infighting and as South Africa’s biggest city struggles to balance its budget. https://bloom.bg/46HgO5X

Pushed to limits: Many of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s overcrowded hospitals are battling to treat babies who have caught a mutated mpox strain that’s spreading rapidly in the central African country, according to Save the Children. https://bloom.bg/3YEiKKx

Leaders freed: Tanzania released 520 opposition members who were detained in a bid to prevent them from holding a youth rally that the authorities said could have triggered unrest. https://bloom.bg/4fHHNSO

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🎙 After weeks of deadly protests in Bangladesh, a student-led uprising toppled PM Sheikh Hasina. Now Nobel-winning economist Muhammad Yunus has stepped in to lead the country.

Kai Schultz talks to Oanh Ha on what’s next on the Big Take Asia podcast. https://link.podtrac.com/jxfy2rhy

BREAKING: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida won’t run for a second term as leader of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party in September, opening the door for a new party member to take over the post of premier. https://bloom.bg/4dHHm9j

📷: Franck Robichon/EPA/Bloomberg

Thailand’s Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin from office after finding him guilty of a “serious violation” of ethical standards, risking political chaos in the country. https://bloom.bg/3X2BPVl

📷: Lillian Suwanrumpha/Getty Images

Electricity divide: An erratic grid is widening the electricity divide in South Africa, pushing the middle class toward solar panels and batteries and leaving the poor at the mercy of rising prices and new fees. https://bloom.bg/4djE2Bu

Extreme weather: Heat is endangering the health of almost 500 million children, who will experience double the number of extremely hot days than their grandparents’ generation, the United Nations says. https://bloom.bg/3X2NBiF

Cost of living: Ghana’s annual inflation slowed to a 28-month low in July, creating space for the central bank to cut interest rates further. https://bloom.bg/4dHtnAj

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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigned after a tumultuous year sparked by protests over the Israel-Gaza war https://bloom.bg/3SQuBRM

📷: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc

Singapore charged two former bank relationship managers from Citibank and Julius Baer in the city’s biggest money-laundering case https://bloom.bg/3Aq4oDs

📷: Suhaimi Abdullah/Bloomberg

Indonesia’s planned new capital Nusantara, carved out of the Borneo rainforest, is supposed to be outgoing President Joko Widodo’s biggest legacy. Yet two years after work began, much of the central site still consists of mud.

Take an in-depth look at the delay-plagued city, from the air and on the ground, and find out why its uncertain fate matters: https://bloom.bg/3SQIzTI

📽: Muhammad Fadli/Bloomberg

Mpox has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization. What is the disease, how does it spread and is there a vaccine to protect against it? Read more: https://bloom.bg/3SLKOrG

📷: NIAID

Health emergency: The World Health Organization has declared a fast-spreading mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency as the agency seeks to contain the spread of the potentially deadly virus. https://bloom.bg/3yCXqug

Cost of living: Nigerian inflation slowed for the first time in almost two years in July, providing some respite to consumers who have become increasingly frustrated by the high cost of living. https://bloom.bg/46QufRe

Leader quits: The deputy leader of South Africa's EFF quit, dealing a blow to a party that has unnerved financial markets with its calls to expropriate land and nationalize mines and banks.

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra, a daughter of former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra, won a parliament vote to become the Southeast Asian nation’s new prime minister. She becomes the third member of the influential Shinawatra clan to lead the country, and the youngest prime minister in Thailand’s history: https://bloom.bg/4cuARpi

📸: Andre Malerba/Bloomberg

Rebuilding Gaza Strip: After ten months of war, Gaza is buried under 42 million tonnes of debris. With US-backed ceasefire talks restarting in Doha, calls to rebuild the Strip are becoming louder. https://bloom.bg/4fOiYoh

Virus challenges: Changes in the mpox virus are just the latest obstacle facing disease trackers trying to contain an outbreak that’s become a global health emergency. https://bloom.bg/3XhcebD

Equities rally: South Africa’s stock market rises to a record high on prospects of interest-rate cuts, combined with a global rally in risk assets. https://bloom.bg/4cor8kw

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The drive for sustainable construction is encountering a tropical problem in Singapore; the city's new landmark wooden building is sprouting mold. That and more in this week's free Singapore Edition newsletter: https://bloom.bg/3X6dYEj

📷: Nanyang Technological University