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Constitutional and developmental betrayal in Sierra Leone
Cocorioko
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August 3, 2025
CRONY CAPITAL NATIONALISM IN SIERRA LEONE: A CONSTITUTIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BETRAYAL By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Sunday, 3 August 2025 Sierra Leone’s post war aspirations for democratic governance, social justice, and economic reform, efforts...
Mass demonstrations in Abidjan: Where are Ecowas and AU?
The Standard Gambia
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August 11, 2025
- Advertisement - By Madi Jobarteh Today, thousands of protestors marched in Yopougon, a suburb of Abidjan, opposing the electoral commission’s decision to bar key opposition figures including former President Laurent Gbagbo and ex-Credit Suisse...
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
New York Film Festival Sets Main Slate With Jafar Panahi & Joachim Trier Cannes Winners, Ulrich Köhler’s ‘Gavagai’ World Premiere
Deadline
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August 5, 2025
The New York Film Festival has unveiled the main slate of its 63rd edition, featuring prize winners at top fests like Cannes’ Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (Palme d’Or) and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (Grand Prix), Oliver Laxe’s...
Trump's tariff deadline arrives with fewer deals than promised
United Press International (UPI)
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July 31 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump's suspension of reciprocal tariffs ends Friday and the United States has only managed a small portion of his goal for new trade deals. Trump has pushed back his self-imposed deadlines on multiple occasions...
War, revolution, and the future of hope
Meer
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August 6, 2025
History teaches us that major social transformations have always occurred in the wake of two types of traumatic social upheavals: war and revolution. Although the sequence between war and revolution varies, the two social upheavals tend to occur...
Togo earns nearly CFA50bn from intra-WAEMU tourism in 2023
Togo First
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(Togo First) - Togo collected CFA49.9 billion in tourism revenue from other West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries in 2023, according to new data from the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) on regional tourism flows....
Africa: The Club of Five and the Sociopath
International Viewpoint
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On 9 July 2025, President Trump received five African leaders from Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal for a working lunch. Countries, according to Trump, "all very vibrant places with very valuable land, great minerals, and...
Trump’s banquet for Africa’s Lilliputians
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 29, 2025
The presidents of five West and Central African states – Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Liberia’s Joseph Boakai, Guinea-Bissau’s Umaro Cissoko Embaló, Mauritania’s Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, and Gabon’s Brice Oligui Nguema – recently visited United...
IT’S OFFICIAL – British and Gambian Advocate Petitions ECOWAS Over Senegal and Woodside Energy’s Exclusion of The Gambia from Shared Oil Reserves!
The Fatu Network
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July 30, 2025
- Advertisement - As of today, Wednesday, 30 July 2025, no response has been received from the Government of Senegal. Accordingly, Mr Ousman F. M’Bai, a former UK Financial Crime Prosecutor and Asset Recovery Specialist, has formally petitioned...
More oxygen for Africa-China higher education collaboration
University World News
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AFRICA-CHINA China and Africa are deepening collaborations between their universities and they have resolved to increase the number of institutions of higher learning involved in partnerships between the two regions across various fields of study....
Trump Is Just Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud on U.S.-Africa Ties
World Politics Review
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July 30, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and Gabonese President Brice...
Rate decision expected as Trump tariff hits - Ockham Weekly News Diary
Politicsweb
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Monday, 28 July 2025 28/07/25 iSERVICE Rate decision expected as Trump tariff hits - Ockham Weekly News Diary Ockham Communications | 27 July 2025 Reserve Bank to announce interest rate decision as 30% US tariff on SA goods is due to take effect...
Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina fast track digital ID rollout
Coingeek
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July 28, 2025
Homepage > News > Business > Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina fast track digital ID rollout The government of Belize has announced its intention to roll out a national digital identity system for residents, offering a range of functionalities in...
Peace without prosperity is fragile
The New Dawn Liberia
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July 28, 2025
The Orator of Liberia’s 178th Independence Anniversary has called on the Boakai Administration to confront economic disparity with robust, practical policy actions. By Lincoln G. Peters Monrovia, Liberia; July 28, 2025 – Liberia’s 178th...
U.S and Russia Seek Access to Togo’s Lomé Port
The Maritime Executive
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As Port of Lomé grows its transshipment role in West Africa, major global powers including the U.S and Russia are moving to secure access to the important maritime hub. The increase in volume of trade between Asia and West Africa has seen Lomé...
Germany opens new Schengen visa centres in Nigeria, Cameroon, Cyprus
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 8, 2025
Germany has launched four new Schengen visa application centres across Nigeria, Cameroon, and Cyprus, in a move aimed at reducing processing delays and easing access for thousands of prospective travelers. The centres, located in Abuja, Lagos,...
Discover the sites that made UNESCO's World Heritage list for 2025
Lonely Planet
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Romantic German castles, ancient Australian petroglyphs, and a karst canyon carved through a lush Brazilian park: the 26 new destinations inscribed to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2025 honor human history and natural wonders across the globe,...
Lusophone Compact Presents Opportunities
Business Ghana
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The Lusophone Compact Secretariat last week engaged with leaders of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) at their 15th Summit and economic forum in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. The July 15-18 meetings provided a strategic platform to...
Saudi student's family pay emotional visit to Cambridge street where he died
The National News
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Propped delicately on the pavement inches from where Mohammed Alqassem was stabbed to death are more than a dozen bouquets left in tribute to the Saudi student. The 20-year-old's father and cousins have paid an emotional visit to the scene in...