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Africa Intelligence Brief Comprehensive News Roundup For August 26, 2025
MENAFN
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August 26, 2025
(MENAFN- The Rio Times) On August 26, 2025, Egypt's petroleum ministry announced new gas drilling in its giant Zohr field to boost output. Meanwhile, Tunisian rights groups condemned the government's closure of a key information agency as a...
Courts Start Asking About The ICE Arrest Quota The Administration Is Now Pretending Isn’t A Quota
Techdirt
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August 8, 2025
from the it's-only-a-quota-when-we-need-it-to-be-one dept Arrest/ticketing quotas have almost always been found illegal by courts. They used to be commonplace, but courts (at all levels) have generally ruled that quotas pervert incentives so much...
UNDP Resident Representative’s Message for International Youth Day 2025.
The City Review
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August 14, 2025
Celebrating International Youth Day: Empowering South Sudan’s Youth for Sustainable Development In South Sudan, the Youth aged 18–35 years make up about 72% of the country’s population, with most residing in rural areas. Despite their vast...
Africa steps forward to combat climate change
Sabah
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August 18, 2025
Climate change poses enormous challenges to the survival of human beings and economic development. The issue has become an important talking point of governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), researchers and academics for about half a...
Local Demining Expert Dies In Argentina
The News Hawks
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August 25, 2025
A Zimbabwean explosives and demining expert Henry Martin Douglas Macharaga died in Argentina almost a week ago after a fatal detonation of an explosive he was handling as part of his extraction work on the side of National Route 34 in the Latin...
Africa Wealth Report 2025: Continent Outpaces Global Growth as New Wealth Hubs Surge
The Laotian Times
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August 26, 2025
LONDON, Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Africa’s millionaire population is projected to grow by 65% over the next decade, according to the Africa Wealth Report 2025. The continent is currently home to 25 billionaires, 348 centi-millionaires, and...
Humanitarian aid cuts leave victims of sexual violence in global conflicts without help, UN says
The Independent
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August 19, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Opinion – The Performance of UN Transitional Authorities
E-International Relations
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August 25, 2025
John Moore and Jerry Pubantz’s recent insightful opinion piece on a potential UN solution to the Gaza quandary, is both optimistic and thought-provoking. It also reminded me of a paper on this subject by Rob McLaughlin. I had the privilege of...
Africa Intelligence Brief Comprehensive News Roundup For August 25, 2025
MENAFN
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August 25, 2025
(MENAFN- The Rio Times) On August 25, 2025, Egypt launched an AI tax reform task force to modernize revenue collection. The UN pressed Libya to resolve constitutional disputes, while Libya's coast guard fired on a European rescue vessel in the...
440 Million People at Risk: Scientists Uncover Global Wildfire Paradox
SciTechDaily
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August 24, 2025
A new study reveals a paradox in wildfire trends: even though global burned area has dropped in recent decades, nearly 40 percent more people are now living in harm’s way. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Over the past two decades, the total burned area...
Climate-Smart Vegetable Seeds set to drive Smallholder Resilience in Sahel and West Africa
News Ghana
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August 25, 2025
With climate change intensifying across the Sahel and West Africa, East-West Seed, one of the world’s leading vegetable seed companies, is introducing new climate-smart vegetable seeds. These new seeds are designed to help smallholder farmers...
Ramaphosa pushes economic diplomacy amid tariff pressures from US and global trade disruptions
IOL
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated South Africa’s commitment to advancing its national interest through strategic economic diplomacy and principled engagement on the global stage. In his weekly letter to the nation on Monday, he highlighted...
Over 1,000 Terror Groups Now Operating Across Africa –Gambari
Sahara Reporters
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Former Minister of External Affairs and Nigeria’s ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, has revealed that no fewer than 1,000 insurgent groups are currently active across Africa. He made the disclosure...
China Has Turned Mediation Into Tool Of Resource Extraction, Strategic Entrenchment: Report
MENAFN
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August 25, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Naypyidaw, Aug 25 (IANS) China's peace-making efforts often come in the language of harmony yet the result consistently supports Beijing's business and political benefits rather than communities involved in conflict, a report in...
The VX Land Cruiser factor – why Africa is still poor
Daily Maverick
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August 18, 2025
The fuel queues across Malawi’s cities tell their own story of an economy and society in distress. The reason for the petrol shortage is not rocket science. It is also entirely predictable. The black-market rate of the Kwacha to the dollar is...
China’s mediation is about leverage, not peace
Zimbabwe Independent
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Mediation is usually cast as a noble exercise in international politics, easing tensions and preventing conflict from escalating. But when China positions itself as a mediator, the underlying logic is different. Beijing has turned mediation into a...
“Get your children out for vaccination,” Lakes State authorities urge residents
The City Review
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August 25, 2025
By Makur Adut Lakes State government in collaboration with partners have launched the Malaria and Measles 2nd dose vaccination across the State, with the region’s authorities urging public to join forces with them to ensure their children are...
Why Ethiopia’s Tigray could be on the brink of another conflict
Al Jazeera
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August 25, 2025
An eerily familiar set of headlines is making the rounds in Ethiopia, troubling many in the fragile, northern Tigray region. Successive delegations of civil society and religious leaders have, in recent weeks, travelled to the Tigrayan capital,...
<em>The World of Debt</em>: “Stark disparities and systemic inequalities” in the world of public debt
World Socialist Web Site
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August 24, 2025
A record 61 countries out of the 193 United Nations member states spent at least 10 percent of government revenues on payments to the world’s financial parasites: the banks and increasingly private creditors, asset managers and hedge funds. The...
Amid tariff pressures, Ramaphosa calls for economic diplomacy and multilateralism
Engineering News
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Back from his trip to Japan, where he attended the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development Summit (TICAD9), President Cyril Ramaphosa underscored the importance of the forum to strengthen trade and investment, amid global trade...