On today’s NOTICE News Daily: Vice President Kamala Harris just arrived in Africa for a major trip across the continent. We’ll tell you what she hopes to accomplish. Plus: have two high school seniors solved a major math mystery?
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Top Story: Kamala Harris Starts Africa Tour, Announces Security Aid
The United States will provide $100 million to Ghana and four other West African countries to help them deal with violent extremism and instability, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Monday during a visit to Ghana. Harris was in Accra at the start of a week-long, three-nation African tour, the latest in a series of visits by senior U.S. officials as Washington seeks to counter growing Chinese and Russian influence on the continent. >> Full story
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- More: Harris seeks to reset U.S.-Africa relations on 3-nation tour (Politico)
- Go deeper: Can U.S. charm offensive woo continent from China? (BBC)
- For context: 10 Things to Know about the U.S.-China Rivalry in Africa (U.S. Institute of Peace)
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Teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem
“Two New Orleans high school seniors who say they have proven Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which academics for two millennia have thought to be impossible – are being encouraged by a prominent US mathematical research organization to submit their work to a peer-reviewed journal.” >> Full story from The Guardian