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Ranked: The 50 Richest Countries by GDP Per Capita in 2025
Visual Capitalist
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June 13, 2025
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How IFFs cripple Africa’s development
Daily News Tanzania
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June 13, 2025
LLICIT Financial Flows (IFFs) remain one of the most pressing and destructive challenges facing Africa and the global economy today. These illegal movements of money across borders often through tax evasion, corruption, money laundering, trade...
FOCAC 2025: China and...
Capital Ethiopia
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June 15, 2025
In a historic gathering that signals a new era of partnership, senior representatives from China, 53 African countries, and the African Union Commission convened in Changsha this week to advance the full implementation of outcomes from the Beijing...
Togo Set to Benefit from New Phase of PARIIS Irrigation Project
Togo First
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(Togo First) - Togo and three other West African countries could gain stronger irrigation support under the new phase of the Projet d'Appui Régional à l'Initiative pour l'Irrigation au Sahel (PARIIS). Officials announced this on June 10, 2025, at...
Angola proposes former minister Fátima Jardim as new Executive Secretary of the CPLP
Ver Angola
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Maria de Fátima Monteiro Jardim, a graduate in biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, who was vice-president of the Council of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), representing Africa, a position...
Fire and conflict choke Africa's green lungs
African Business
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May 27, 2025
Africa’s green lungs – the tropical rainforests that sequester carbon, provide livelihoods for millions and are home to unique wildlife and plant ecosystems – are under unprecedented threat. Global forest loss surged to record highs in 2024,...
Springfield Haitians feel ‘trapped’ with anticipated removal orders, travel ban
Journal News - Ohio
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The Department of Homeland Security said notices are being sent by email, telling the people in question that both their temporary legal status and their work permit was revoked “effective immediately.” The notices say immigrants leaving and using...
AJC: New travel ban will block ‘those in need of real refuge’
Jewish Herald-Voice - Texas
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The American Jewish Committee has come out against President Donald Trump’s new executive order banning travel to the United States from 12 countries, which Trump says is needed because of incidents such as this past week’s attack on a rally for...
Petrostate America
Foreign Affairs
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June 12, 2025
President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been disruptive and chaotic, marked by trade wars, withdrawals from international treaties, and contempt for traditional allies. Much of this turmoil stems from his “America first” worldview and populist...
Columbus agency says travel ban impedes refugees from family reunification
WCMH - Ohio
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June 12, 2025
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus has become a second home for thousands of refugees fleeing countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban, many of whom now worry about family left behind. “It is painful to see doors close on those who...
Abidjan Convention on Regional consultation on Additional draft Protocol on the Management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Starts.
The Voice Gambia
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May 20, 2025
By: Sheikh Alkinky Sanyang The Convention for Co-operation in the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the West and Central African Region commonly called the Abidjan Convention (ABC) has started the regional...
Abidjan Convention on regional consultation on additional draft protocol on MPAs starts
The Point
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The Abidjan Convention was born out of the need for a regional approach to the prevention, reduction and control of pollution of the marine environment, coastal and related river waters under the jurisdiction of the States of Western, Central and...
‘This is my community’: Cuyahoga County’s Welcome Center helping immigrants rebuild their lives
Cleveland.com - Ohio
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June 13, 2025
CLEVELAND, Ohio – After fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and spending 23 years as a refugee in Uganda, Miteza Kanyamahane arrived in Cleveland in 2018 with hope for safety and a fresh start. For the first two years, Catholic...
Woke gender studies student who's now in her ELEVENTH year of college is terrified Trump will deport her
Daily Mail
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June 12, 2025
A graduate student fears she won't be able to complete her 11th year of college in America because President Donald Trump might deport her. Oriette D’Angelo, a doctoral student studying Spanish and Gender, Women and Sexuality studies at the...
Trump begins new travel ban
World Socialist Web Site
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June 10, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 23, 2025, in Washington. [AP Photo/Evan Vucci]On Monday, the Trump administration implemented a new travel ban, barring citizens from 12 countries from...
Sahrawi Republic Participates in 50th Ordinary Session of the African Union Permanent Representatives’ Committee
Sahara Press Service
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Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) 10 June 2025 (SPS) – The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) took part in the Opening of the 50th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC), held yesterday at the AU...
How to Read a Military Parade
The New York Times
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June 12, 2025
Authoritarian regimes use them to intimidate. Democracies use them to commemorate. Military parades are both grand spectacle and potent message. In a few days, the streets of Washington will host one of their own. The occasion, at least...
Iran blasts US travel ban blaming 'deep hostility' for Iranians and Muslims
The National News
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Iran on Saturday said the US travel ban on Iranian citizens and 11 other mostly Middle Eastern and African countries was a sign of a “racist mentality”. The move, which is expected to take place on June 9, is "a clear sign of the dominance of a...
Georgetown Tells Int Students to Defer Enrollment
Town and Country Magazine
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June 11, 2025
As President Donald Trump's new travel ban goes into effect—barring citizens of 12 countries from the U.S. and partially restricting those from seven others—colleges and universities are grappling with how to advise their students who are from...
The age of global apartheid: A dark history that links America and Israel
Salon
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June 12, 2025
In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: A person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire history of...