内容摘要：The two-alarm fire took about two hours and as many as 45 firefighters to extinguish around 11 a.m., Evans said.

The two-alarm fire took about two hours and as many as 45 firefighters to extinguish around 11 a.m., Evans said.

with President Donald Trump, noted that AGOA is “going to be further discussed ... it is top of mind for them as well” in the U.S. administration.Bedi said his business has benefited from 25 years of the AGOA agreement but will not survive if the deal is not extended again.

“This time around, we are hoping that President Trump will pass it for a longer period, then a long-term strategy can come in play,” he said. The longest extension has been for a decade.In making his pitch, Bedi said he believes that Africa offers the perfect alternative sourcing to Asia with its large and youthful workforce. Seventy percent of people in sub-Saharan Africa are under 30, according to the United Nations.“I think the real shift of supply chain will happen, and Africa is the last frontier. We cannot go to the moon and start manufacturing there,” Bedi said.

Kenya’s government would not comment on the deal or why it might be under threat.Economist Wangari Muikia said the new U.S. tariffs reflect a shift towards reviving American manufacturing, “consistent with Trump’s priority to re-shore jobs,” but warned that ending AGOA may “strain diplomatic ties and weaken American soft power.”

African governments have promoted AGOA as a major job creation avenue.

In Kenya, AGOA has led to the creation of 66,000 jobs since the program began in 2000, according to government statistics published in 2024. Kenya’s overall unemployment rate is 12.7%, but the rate among those under 35 is 67% — part of a wider issue for much of Africa’s booming young population.There are other surveys that look at youth smoking and drug use, including the University of Michigan’s federally funded “Monitoring the Future”

But the federal studies looked at both adults and adolescents, and provided insights into drug use by high school dropouts. The CDC also delved into specific vaping and tobacco products in the ways that other surveys don’t, and was a driver in the federal push to better regulate electronic cigarettes.“There was overlap among the surveys, but each one had its own specific focus that the other ones didn’t cover,“ said Richard Miech, who leads the Michigan study.

Work to modernize data collection has been derailed. That includes an upgrade to a 22-year-old system that helps local public health departments track diseases and allows CDC to put together a national picture.Another casualty was the