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Trump Ridiculed for Asking to Move a 'Bit Quicker' While Meeting With African Leaders: 'How Rude'

Trump Ridiculed for Asking to Move a 'Bit Quicker' While Meeting With African Leaders: 'How Rude'

President Donald Trump is being criticized by social media users after telling an African leader to keep their remarks brief during a meeting with multiple leaders, encouraging them to stick to the schedule for the event. Trump met with the...

Trump hosts West African leaders as region reels from US aid cuts

Trump hosts West African leaders as region reels from US aid cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting five West African leaders on Wednesday for a "multilateral lunch" at the White House as the region reels from the impact of U.S. aid cuts. The leaders of Liberia, Senegal, Gabon, Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau...

All Set for Episcopal Consecration of Catholic Bishop for Bafatá Diocese in Guinea-Bissau

All Set for Episcopal Consecration of Catholic Bishop for Bafatá Diocese in Guinea-Bissau

Born in April 1967 in Cúmura in the Catholic Diocese of Bissau, the Bishop-elect was ordained a Priest in May 1998 in Nhoma, Guinea Bissau. As a Priest, Mons. Quematcha served as OFM Cap. Assistant Novice Master in Dapaong, Togo, and Rector at St....

Trump humiliated as Fox News cuts away from key meeting to discuss pearl earrings

Trump humiliated as Fox News cuts away from key meeting to discuss pearl earrings

13:26 ET, 09 Jul 2025Updated 13:33 ET, 09 Jul 2025 Fox News abruptly cut its coverage of the meeting between Donald Trump and African leaders to discuss pearl earrings. "Immigration will also be on the agenda, and I hope we can bring down the high...

Nine dead in pirogue shipwreck off Guinea-Bissau coast

BISSAU, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A pirogue capsized Wednesday evening off the coast of the Bijagos Islands in Guinea-Bissau, leaving nine of its 27 passengers dead, local media reported Thursday, citing eyewitness accounts of the tragedy. The alert was...

Trump to host five African presidents at White House

Trump to host five African presidents at White House

US President Donald Trump will welcome five African leaders to a White House lunch on Wednesday, with commerce and trade expected to feature prominently amongst a mixed bag of potential agenda items. The presidents of Senegal, Liberia,...

Trump stuns with 'common sense' tariff formula that defies explanation

Trump stuns with 'common sense' tariff formula that defies explanation

14:39 ET, 09 Jul 2025 President Donald Trump said his latest round of tariffs were based on "common sense" in an underwhelming explanation for his recent levies on 14 countries. The president made the claim during a critical White House summit...

Two European countries in ‘red zone’ of climate finance vulnerability

Two European countries in ‘red zone’ of climate finance vulnerability

By&nbspEuronews Green Published on 26/06/2025 - 15:41 GMT+2 A new index has identified the countries most vulnerable to climate shocks. More than two billion people live in ‘red zone’ nations, where the risk of a major hazard or disaster is high...

Digital ID revolution: Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, PNG make strides

Digital ID revolution: Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, PNG make strides

Homepage > News > Business > Digital ID revolution: Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, PNG make strides Digital identity is no longer a buzzword; it’s the foundation of the rapidly growing digital economy. Most governments are spending millions of dollars to...

Guinea-Bissau: Spain debt swap project to be presented at UN conference – consul

Guinea-Bissau’s debt swap project with Spain for social support will be presented at the UN conference on investment in development to be held from the 30th in Seville, a diplomatic source has said. The Spanish consul in Bissau, Lúcia Piñon...

Economy, health, education, top agenda as ECOWAS ministers meet in Abuja

Economy, health, education, top agenda as ECOWAS ministers meet in Abuja

Critical issues relating to economic integration, infrastructure development, health, education and agriculture were some of the issues topping the agenda at the opening of the 94th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers in Abuja on...

Suzi Carla Barbosa: ‘Spain can find many opportunities to invest in Africa’

Suzi Carla Barbosa: ‘Spain can find many opportunities to invest in Africa’

Madrid hosted the Africa Spain Summit 2025 with the aim of strengthening ties between Africa and Spain at all levels, mainly in the economic and commercial spheres. On the occasion of this important event organised by One Africa Forums, Atalayar...

Trump praises English of the leader of Liberia – where English is the official language

Trump praises English of the leader of Liberia – where English is the official language

Donald Trump was basking in the praise of a group of African leaders on Wednesday, when the Liberian president took the microphone. “Liberia is a longtime friend of the United States and we believe in your policy of making America great again,”...

'Where were you educated?' Trump praises English of leader who heads English-speaking country

'Where were you educated?' Trump praises English of leader who heads English-speaking country

Editor's note: This headline has been updated. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump hosted Liberian President Joseph Boakai and the leaders of four other West African countries at the White House. In one viral exchange, Trump was seen...

Trump Congratulates Leader of English-Speaking Country for His Good English

Trump Congratulates Leader of English-Speaking Country for His Good English

Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English,” seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English. The awkward remark was made as the U.S. president hosted five African leaders on Wednesday...

Global Climate Risk Index Ranks 188 Countries by Vulnerability and Access to Finance

Global Climate Risk Index Ranks 188 Countries by Vulnerability and Access to Finance

The Climate Finance Vulnerability Index ranks 188 countries according to both their vulnerability to hazards and their financial resilience. Researchers at the Columbia Climate School, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, have unveiled a...

Prioritising UHC, Health Equity, and Participatory Governance in the Political Declaration of the 4th High-Level Meeting on NCDs

Prioritising UHC, Health Equity, and Participatory Governance in the Political Declaration of the 4th High-Level Meeting on NCDs

On 25 September 2025, global leaders will gather in New York for the fourth United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)[1] and the Promotion of Mental Health and Wellbeing...

U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Migrants

U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Migrants

“As President Trump met Wednesday with the leaders of five West African countries, his administration was pushing them to accept migrants deported by the U.S. whose home countries refuse or are slow to take them back,“ the Wall Street Journal...

Mozambique marks 50th anniversary of independence with call for economic independence

Mozambique marks 50th anniversary of independence with call for economic independence

MAPUTO, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Mozambique held a grand ceremony on Wednesday at Machava Stadium in Matola, Maputo Province, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the country's independence from Portuguese colonial rule. Mozambican President Daniel...

Trump hits Brazil with 50% tariffs

Trump hits Brazil with 50% tariffs

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump singled out Brazil for import taxes of 50% on Wednesday for its treatment of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, showing that personal grudges rather than simple economics were driving the U.S. leader’s use of...

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