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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...
Exco overhaul at MTN as SA boss gets redeployed
ITWeb
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August 18, 2025
Ferdi Moolman has been appointed as MTN SA CEO, while incumbent Charles Molapisi will now serve as group chief information and technology officer. MTN Group, Africa’s biggest mobile operator, has announced changes to its executive committee (exco)...
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...
<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...
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,...
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...
A planned famine grips Gaza – the working class must intervene and support Palestinians
The News Line
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August 24, 2025
THE Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of a plan to occupy Gaza, following the Palestinian factions’ acceptance of the mediators’ proposal, demonstrates his determination to smash any ceasefire...
IUCN formally recognises 4 distinct species of giraffe in Africa
Middle East News 247
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August 24, 2025
A landmark decision by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has formally recognised four genetically distinct giraffe species across Africa, overturning over 250 years of scientific classification. The change is expected to...
Ethiopia Investment Hotspots & Emerging Opportunities 2025
New Business Ethiopia
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August 25, 2025
By Andualem Sisay Gessesse – Ethiopia is opening up its economy by liberalizing sectors that were previously closed to foreign investors, including financial services, insurance, and telecommunications, creating unprecedented investment...
Twelve must-read books
This Day
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August 25, 2025
VIEW FROM THE GALLERY BY MAHMUD JEGA Two widely reported remarks at the weekend by top Nigerian Army Generals, one retired and one still serving, reminded me that there are twelve very important books that our youngstersshould be made to read, in...
Decades after genocide, Rwanda emerges as aggressive regional power
Mint
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August 24, 2025
Outside of one hangar were piles of Congolese military helmets, jetsam of an army that lost its nerve and tried to slip away when Rwanda-backed M23 rebels attacked the airfield in January. Along the runway sat burned-out military trucks and...
American Professional Highlights Ethiopia’s Potential in Sports amid Challenges
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, August 24, 2025 (ENA) -- Ethiopia possesses significant potential in sports like basketball despite challenges in nurturing young talent, according to Carlos Thornton, a former professional American football player who started Tasty...
As humanitarian funding declines, investing in preparedness is essential
Mail & Guardian
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August 10, 2025
In times of crisis, and with humanitarian funding in decline, the outlook for women and girls will be devastating. Photo: File In South Sudan, as fighting raged around her, *Kinana knew she was facing enormous obstacles. She sought safety after...
Rio welcomes world with sultry music, plea for conservation
Samoa Observer
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With fireworks forming the word "Rio" in the sky, performers decked in silver and sweet, sultry music, Rio de Janiero is welcoming the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a message: Let's take better care of our planet. After...
Scientists split giraffes into four species. Three are in trouble
Kathimerini
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In a photo provided by Billy Dodson/GCF shows, a southern giraffe is one of four species of giraffe. One species is officially four, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced on Thursday, Aug 21. [Billy Dodson/GCF via The New...
NGODA: Include voice of Non-State Actors in Africa’s climate agenda at Addis Summit
Star
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Dismas Ngoda is the head of research and data analyst at Green Communication Institute African states are gearing up for the second African Climate Summit (ACS-II), which will take place two years after the inaugural gathering held in Nairobi in...
Canada missing UN target for number of female soldiers on peacekeeping missions
The Globe and Mail
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August 24, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:A Canadian Armed Forces soldier provides security during a demonstration on the United Nations base in Mali, in 2018. In 2017, former prime minister Justin Trudeau pledged to make Canada a leader for women in...
Sudan’s struggle on international day for remembrance of the slave trade
Dabanga Radio
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August 23, 2025
Each year on 23 August, the world observes the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition, marking the Haitian uprising of 1791 that ignited the process of ending the transatlantic slave trade. UNESCO describes the...