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Yaounde to host CEMAC debt management co...
The Guardian Post
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According to online business news platform, Business in Cameroon, the main organisers are brokerage firms who intend to offer a helping hand in sovereign debt restructuring of CEMAC member countries, who include Cameroon, the Central African...
Focus on deforestation in Africa!
The Point
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Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested area since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon. But, to understand the causes and effects of deforestation in Africa today, it is important to...
Travel notice: Feds issue warning on crime, hazards in tropical West African destination
MassLive - Massachusetts
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March 12, 2025
The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs is advising citizens planning to travel to a central African country to exercise caution. Federal officials issued a level two travel advisory to Equatorial Guinea, according ot the U.S....
Conclave to Elect New Pope Commences May 7
BusinessPost Nigeria
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April 28, 2025
By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh Russian President Vladimir Putin invited 29 world leaders to witness the main military parade at Moscow’s Red Square, and used the high-level occasion to review Russia’s diplomatic priorities with African leaders. The...
How Prof Janabi won delegates’ support for top WHO Africa job
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s Prof Mohammed Yakub Janabi has been elected as the new Regional Director for Africa at the World Health Organisation (WHO), following a vote by the WHO Regional Committee for Africa in Geneva. Prof Janabi’s nomination...
How (not) to prepare for the next AU-EU summit
PubAffairs Bruxelles
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May 13, 2025
In March, the EU and the AU launched a year-long celebration marking 25 years of their “unique and successful partnership”, looking ahead to the next milestone in this ‘robust collaboration’: a seventh AU-EU summit slated for the second half of...
Africa’s Time For Action Is Now
The Namibian
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May 15, 2025
The imposition of tariffs at unprecedented rates and concerns of the potential disruption to the global economy no longer dominate media coverage. However, it must be taken as a serious warning by African nations who should avoid being lulled into...
Libya's Bid Round Draws 40+ Applicants As Conocophillips Signals Renewed Investment In Africa
MENAFN
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May 15, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) Libya's latest upstream licensing round has already attracted more than 40 applicants, a signal of the country's re-entry into the global energy arena and growing interest in its largely untapped hydrocarbon potential. This...
US Congress moves to block IMF’s central Africa support amid oil fund dispute
BusinessLIVE
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Dakar — The US Congress has introduced legislation that could block IMF support for some Central African countries, in an effort to guard billions of dollars that oil companies must set aside for environmental restoration. The bill highlights a...
US lawmakers block IMF Central Africa Support over Oil Fund Dispute
World Energy News - Connecticut
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U.S. legislators have introduced legislation to block International Monetary Fund assistance for certain Central African countries in order to protect billions of dollars oil companies are required by law set aside for environmental restoration....
US lawmakers move to block IMF Central Africa support over oil fund dispute
Yahoo Finance
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By Bate Felix and Wendell Roelf DAKAR (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that could block International Monetary Fund (IMF) support for some Central African countries, in an effort to guard billions of dollars that oil...
On working visit: Mines minister says SW Region soon hub for industrial ...
The Guardian Post
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The member of government made the declaration Thursday October 24. He was speaking at the end of a working visit to the South West Region. The visit took the minister notably to the soft drinks production company, PRISTINE SASU, in Mudeka, Tiko...
ACAT 2025: African leaders, innovators unite to drive NextGen ag-tech for food security
Tribune Online
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June 17, 2025
Over 700 participants from 35 countries converged on Kigali, Rwanda capital for the 2025 edition of the African Conference on Agricultural Technologies (ACAT), organized by the African Agriculture Technology Foundation (AATF) and other partners...
Hostel 9: UNICAL students lament electric shocks, reptiles, harassment
Daily Post
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June 19, 2025
Fear and frustration are mounting among female students in Hostel 9 at the University of Calabar, as they grapple with constant electric shocks, animal threats, flooding, and harassment, conditions they say have made life unbearable and unsafe on...
Zimbabwe commits to people- centred development
The Chronicle (Zimbabwe)
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April 9, 2025
Wallace Ruzvidzo in KAMPALA, Uganda ZIMBABWE is committed to playing its role in ensuring sustainable and people-centred development across the world and Africa in particular, SADC Chairman President Mnangagwa has said. The President, who arrived...
Zim committed to a prosperous world: President . . . ‘People-centred development critical’
The Herald (Zimbabwe)
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April 8, 2025
Wallace Ruzvidzo in KAMPALA, Uganda Zimbabwe is committed to playing its role in ensuring sustainable and people-centred development across the world and Africa in particular, SADC Chairperson, President Mnangagwa, has said. The President, who...
NEW: President Mnangagwa joins other leaders at Africa Regional ...
The Sunday Mail (Zimbabwe)
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Wallace Ruzvidzo in KAMPALA, Uganda PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA, who arrived here yesterday, will join fellow Heads of State and Government today at the 11th session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-11). The high-level forum...
Ban On Transgender Women: Time For Africa FAs To Act, By Harry Awurumibe
Prompt News Online
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May 3, 2025
With two months to the start of the premier women’s football competition in the continent, the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in the North African country of Morocco, the news of the ban of transgender women from playing women’s football...
Another African country is making an aggressive push to become a major oil player
Business Insider Africa
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May 13, 2025
Strategic infrastructure initiatives, international alliances, and regulatory reforms are helping to establish the country as a vital energy center in southern Africa. Partnerships with other oil-producing African countries As recently reported,...
African Petroleum Producers Organisation: Experts begin work ahead of 46...
The Guardian Post
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Focus is to lay the groundwork for the 19th Ordinary Meeting of the Executive Council of the body, to hold on Wednesday October 30. The 19th Ordinary Meeting of the Executive Council is also to prepare the ground for the 46th Ordinary Session of...