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African leaders urge U.S. to embrace investment-driven partnerships, review tariffs
Business Hallmark
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June 24, 2025
African leaders on Monday issued a strong call for the United States to rethink its approach to the continent by prioritizing strategic investments and revising punitive trade tariffs, moving away from aid-centric relationships toward...
ECOWAS: As Tinubu’s two years of robust leadership comes to an end, By Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe
Premium Times
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June 23, 2025
President Tinubu handing over the chairmanship of ECOWAS to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone The exit of President Tinubu as ECOWAS chairman will be profoundly felt. His contribution to making ECOWAS a stable, peaceful and united...
Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Intercept
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Trump administration could resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own without any chance to object on the grounds that they might be tortured. This may clear a legal path for the...
Flutterwave boosts Cameroon’s businesses with 34th country licence
Technext
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June 23, 2025
Flutterwave has officially launched its digital payment services in Cameroon after securing a Payment Service Provider licence from the Central Bank of Central African States (BEAC). This milestone, achieved through a technical partnership with...
Nation and world at a glance
The Vindicator - Ohio
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Oil rises, US stock futures slip as markets react to US strikes NEW YORK — The price of oil rose and U.S. stock futures fell as global markets react to the U.S. strike against nuclear targets in Iran. The price of Brent crude oil, the...
I'm the First Person to Travel to Every Country in the World Without Ever Getting on a Plane–How I Did It
Travel + Leisure
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For Travel + Leisure’s column Traveling As, we’re talking to travelers about what it’s like to explore the world through their unique perspectives. We chatted with Thor Pedersen of Denmark, who spent nearly a decade on a single journey to 203...
US-Africa summit calls for commercial diplomacy - and respect
African Business
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June 24, 2025
The United States of America’s commercial strategy in Africa is evolving in line with the needs of its business community, according to Troy Fitrell, a senior bureau official at the Bureau of African Affairs in the US Department of State. Fitrell,...
I'm the first person to travel to every country in the world without getting on a plane — how I did it
AOL
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Clockwise from right: Selena Wright; Mike Douglas; Pavel Toropov Clockwise from right: Thor Pedersen in New Zealand, 2022; Sri Lanka in 2023 and Hong Kong in 2020.For Travel + Leisure’s column Traveling As, we’re talking to travelers about what...
Top 10 stories of the day: Shivambu appeals for volunteers | US strikes Iran | Record price for Clifton apartment
The Citizen (South Africa)
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June 22, 2025
Here’s your daily news update for Sunday, 22 June 2025: An easy-to-read selection of our top stories. News today includes Floyd Shivambu making a public appeal for progressive volunteers just a day after being snubbed from his party’s...
When Will Genetically Modifying Our Children Go Mainstream?
Gizmodo
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June 22, 2025
In late May, several scientific organizations, including the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT), banded together to call for a 10-year moratorium on using CRISPR and related technologies to pursue human heritable germline...
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Iodine Deficiency in Reproductive Women From 1990 to 2019, and Projections to 2035: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019
Dove Medical Press
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June 21, 2025
1Department of General Surgery, Cancer Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, 830011, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, People’s...
International Conference Calls for Education in Dialogue and Non-Violence
MENAFN
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June 22, 2025
(MENAFN- HWPL) Paris, June 12, 2025 – In a global context marked by social tensions, armed conflicts, and identity fractures, the voice of education has risen, strong and resolute, in support of peace. An international online conference was...
Southern Provinces, Strategic Link between North Africa & Morocco’s African Depth - Laayoune Declaration
Hespress
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June 21, 2025
Participants in the Parliamentary Forum on Economic Cooperation between Morocco and the CEMAC highlighted on Friday in Laayoune, the strategic importance of the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom and the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region as a vital...
Why do African leaders flee to foreign hospitals instead of fixing theirs at home?
The Zimbabwean
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June 20, 2025
Tendai Ruben Mbofana Once again, Africa finds itself watching in stunned silence as one of its most powerful monarchs, King Mswati III of eSwatini, reportedly battles a deteriorating health condition that has stirred growing concern within and...
Ukraine Seeks Auctioneer to Sell Seized Turkish Cargo Ship
The Maritime Executive
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Ukraine’s National Agency for Tracing and Asset Management (ARMA) is calling for proposals to manage the sale of a Turkish cargo ship it seized in 2024 on charges that it looted grain from Crimea. It is the latest step in efforts by Ukraine to...
2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup: Scouting Haiti
Stars and Stripes FC - Washington D.C.
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June 20, 2025
The 18th edition of the Concacaf Gold Cup is well underway, with 16 nations vying to take home the trophy at the region’s premier competition, an honor currently claimed by a mere three programs. The United States Men’s National Team opened the...
NOV Delegation Joins African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 Amid Artificial Intelligence (AI) Push In African Energy Projects
MENAFN
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June 19, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June 19, 2025/APO Group/ -- A high-level delegation from global energy services company NOV has joined the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies conference – taking...
Trump invites China to make itself at home in Africa
African Business
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June 20, 2025
Since taking office in January, US President Donald Trump’s Africa ‘strategy’ has been even more short-sighted and tin-earned than his most trenchant critics might have feared. Never one to show much of an interest in the continent, Trump appears...
African refugees bear the brunt of shifting global politics
Institute for Security Studies
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African refugees bear the brunt of shifting global politics On World Refugee Day, displaced Africans face the worst conditions yet as conflict and disasters increase, aid plummets and borders tighten. The number of displaced Africans has doubled...
Rwanda Withdraws From E.C.C.A.S. Amid Escalating Tensions With The D.R.C.
The Organization for World Peace
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June 18, 2025
Rwanda has announced its decision to withdraw from the Economic Community of Central African States (E.C.C.A.S.), citing escalating diplomatic tensions with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.). This move comes amid growing hostilities...