Fighting mpox: Bavarian Nordic's smallpox vaccine is moderately effective in preventing mpox infection after a single dose, according to a study in Ontario, Canada, where the shot probably helped curb a 2022 outbreak. https://bloom.bg/4ehPa1S


Art heists: Armed groups are reportedly looting priceless museum artifacts at "an unprecedented level" in Sudan, as a brutal civil war rages on. Fighters are taking away boxes of ancient statues and vases, with claims that they're being posted for sale online. https://bloom.bg/3Zt5kRI


Food access: Zimbabwe is considering culling elephants for the first time since 1988 and using the meat to feed people who have been affected by a crippling drought, a top minister says. https://bloom.bg/3MFYWiq


Sign up for our twice-weekly newsletter on where sub-Saharan Africa stands now — and where it’s headed at https://bloom.bg/3OsOf3y. Next Africa publishes every Tuesday and Friday

Boeing factory workers are poised to walk off the job for the first time in 16 years after members of its largest union rejected a contract offer and voted to strike: https://bloom.bg/3B4ECFa

📸: M. Scott Brauer/Bloomberg

China will raise the retirement age for the first time since 1978, Xinhua news agency reports. Here's why: https://bloom.bg/4ghfJ9r

📸: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Veteran minister: Pravin Gordhan, the anti-apartheid activist and two-time South African finance minister who won plaudits for standing up to Jacob Zuma during his scandal-marred presidency, has died. He was 75. https://bloom.bg/3Zkdufr

Naira slump: Nigeria’s currency, which has endured a volatile week, fell to a record low after dollar liquidity in the domestic foreign-exchange market shrank by nearly half. https://bloom.bg/3XH1e7h

Power for miners: Zambia’s biggest mines are turning to a surprising power source as the copper-producing nation battles an unprecedented energy crisis: South African electricity company Eskom, which until March faced its own severe deficit. https://bloom.bg/3MKcv0o

Sign up for our twice-weekly newsletter on where sub-Saharan Africa stands now — and where it’s headed at https://bloom.bg/3OsOf3y. Next Africa publishes every Tuesday and Friday

At Asia's largest annual oil conference, industry bigwigs gathered in Singapore to sip cocktails and influence the future of energy. Find out what went down in this week's free Singapore Edition newsletter: https://bloom.bg/4e88K16

📸: Serene Cheong/Bloomberg

Donald Trump is safe after his Secret Service detail opened fire at a man who was wielding an assault rifle at his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course Sunday in what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt. A suspect in custody was identified by federal officials as Ryan Routh, 58.

Read more: https://bloom.bg/47rOCEo

📷: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

Huge diamond: Lucara has recovered another mammoth diamond from a mine in Botswana, the second major find for the Canadian company in a month. Read more: https://bloom.bg/3XIOE7H

Climate impact: Severe floods in Nigeria have affected more than 610,000 people, leaving at least 201 dead with more heavy rains expected in the region this week. Read more: https://bloom.bg/3B2ym0G

Visa dilemma: South Africa’s plan to attract more professionals to its skills-starved economy through a so-called nomad visa for remote workers has been slowed by the need to amend tax regulations. Read more: https://bloom.bg/4gkD6ip

Sign up for our twice-weekly newsletter on where sub-Saharan Africa stands now — and where it’s headed at https://bloom.bg/3OsOf3y. Next Africa publishes every Tuesday and Friday

Crisis deepens: Floods across 14 central and West African nations have affected at least 4 million people — rendering many of them homeless — killed about 1,000 and are devastating crops in a region that’s already short of food and plagued by insecurity. https://bloom.bg/4eqkaNd

Rare culling: Zimbabwe will proceed with its first elephant cull in decades after the southern African nation suffered a severe drought, with plans to target around 200 from its herds of over 100,000. https://bloom.bg/3TUSwQT

Rates turn: The tide is turning on interest rates in Africa's largest economies. Central banks in South Africa and Nigeria are set to change course on rates for the first time in years — and at least five others are poised to follow. https://bloom.bg/4einWsc

Sign up for our twice-weekly newsletter on where sub-Saharan Africa stands now — and where it’s headed at https://bloom.bg/3OsOf3y. Next Africa publishes every Tuesday and Friday

Tupperware Brands has filed for bankruptcy following a years-long struggle with sales declines and growing competition. Read more: https://bloom.bg/4d6oXSR

📷: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

War and money: Gold-rich Sudan discussed boosting cooperation in the mining sector with Russia, as Moscow strengthens ties with the North African nation’s military-led government amid a 17-month civil war. https://bloom.bg/3XKJ5pc

Water threat: Floods in Africa are displacing millions of people from Guinea on the west coast to the Central African Republic more than 2,000 miles to the east, prompting warnings of dam bursts and disease. https://bloom.bg/4e4iKs3

Growth quickens: Ghana’s economy expanded at its fastest pace in five years in the second quarter, outstripping economists’ estimates after better performances in its three largest sectors. https://bloom.bg/3zbvwWE

Sign up for our twice-weekly newsletter on where sub-Saharan Africa stands now — and where it’s headed at https://bloom.bg/3OsOf3y. Next Africa publishes every Tuesday and Friday

China created a new class of white-collar workers in record time. Now, just as swiftly, many of their dreams are being crushed by Xi Jinping's decision to reshape the world's second-largest economy.

Read more: https://bloom.bg/4gskAEL
Listen to the Big Take Asia podcast: https://link.podtrac.com/jxfy2rhy

📷: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

First cut: South Africa’s central bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points, lowering them from a 15-year high and marking the first easing since the pandemic. https://bloom.bg/3BjDg9n

Vote nears: One of Tunisian President Kais Saied’s two opponents in October elections was sentenced to 20 months in prison, a move his campaign said was a bid to sideline challengers in a vote already marred by the mass arrest of critics. https://bloom.bg/4e7Dn6t

Cocoa price: Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, is considering raising farmgate prices for the coming harvest above rival Ghana, although growers in both countries would still be fetching well less than the global market. https://bloom.bg/3MQ1OJO

Sign up for our twice-weekly newsletter on where sub-Saharan Africa stands now — and where it’s headed at https://bloom.bg/3OsOf3y. Next Africa publishes every Tuesday and Friday

Food crisis: The worst floods in decades across a swath of West and Central Africa are deepening a record food-insecurity crisis in a region where the United Nations says 55 million people are already going hungry. https://bloom.bg/3Bdn5dZ

Trash-eating flies: As flooding worsens and garbage blocks drains and waterways in Nairobi, residents are breeding millions of flies to consume that waste and help keep streets and homes dry. https://bloom.bg/3XOiVlz

Powering Africa: A plan to bring electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030, backed by an initial pledge of $30 billion from the World Bank and the African Development Bank, has begun to be implemented. https://bloom.bg/4esKZAq

Sign up for our twice-weekly newsletter on where sub-Saharan Africa stands now — and where it’s headed at https://bloom.bg/3OsOf3y. Next Africa publishes every Tuesday and Friday

Apollo has offered to make a multibillion-dollar investment in Intel, according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that would be a vote of confidence in the chipmaker’s turnaround strategy. Read more: https://bloom.bg/4eQGdgv

📷: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Citigroup’s expansion plan in China has hit a roadblock with US regulators after the Federal Reserve imposed a penalty on the bank for its data management and risk controls, according to people familiar with the matter. Read more: https://bloom.bg/3XsTS60

📷: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Market optimism: South Africa’s new business-friendly government has triggered a wave of investment announcements and positive sentiment not seen in years. https://bloom.bg/4ezzdo0

Opposition detained: Tanzania police arrested leaders of the main opposition party after they asked supporters to join banned street protests. https://bloom.bg/3XCkkKx

Vote delay: A group of lawyers in South Sudan are challenging the government’s decision to postpone elections for two years that were due in December, a move they say is unconstitutional. https://bloom.bg/3TDtyoI

Sign up for our twice-weekly newsletter on where sub-Saharan Africa stands now — and where it’s headed at https://bloom.bg/3OsOf3y. Next Africa publishes every Tuesday and Friday

China’s central bank unleashed a blitz of policy support for the economy, as policymakers make their broadest push so far to hit this year’s annual growth target of about 5%. More here: https://bloom.bg/3BqLxZd

From Siberia to Brazil, wildfires are moving below ground — under ice, rainforests and peatlands — where they smolder and emit massive amounts of pollution. They're also triggering dangerous feedback loops. Read The Big Take here: https://bloom.bg/4ezbK6b

📷: Government of Alberta

Hong Kong is planning to lower the amount of tax it levies on spirits, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Asian financial center seeks to regain its edge as a premier destination for nightlife, dining and shopping. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/3NiTzq5

📷: Lam Yik/Bloomberg

China said it launched an ICBM with “a dummy warhead” into the Pacific Ocean, a rare move that could raise tensions in East Asia. More here: https://bloom.bg/3XBcSPT

📷: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac

China’s economy just got a massive adrenaline shot but economists say turning the slump around will require much, much more. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/3Xy09xs

📷: Xie Huanchi/Xinhua/Getty Images