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MF Brings Together 14 1st Ladies
Business Ghana
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Link to Live Stream of Inaugural Session of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative – MFFLI Summit 2025: https://apo-opa.co/3G1Afxo Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, conducted the 7th...
At 61, NAF Strategises to Counter Terrorism, Banditry, Emerging Security Threats
This Day
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June 20, 2025
Linus Aleke examines the evolution of the Nigerian Air Force into a global force that foes fear among the comity of Air Forces, as well as the federal government’s efforts in recapitalising the service to maintain its air power dominance in the...
Massive Underwater Mud Wave Found Beneath the Atlantic Seafloor
SciTechDaily
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June 17, 2025
Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have uncovered vast, buried underwater mud and sand waves, some over a kilometer (3280 feet) tall, off the coast of West Africa, revealing they formed beneath the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway when South...
Seventeen thousand Senegalese students enrolled in France
Sene News
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June 19, 2025
France has 17,000 Senegalese students enrolled in higher education, a figure that reflects the vitality of educational cooperation between the two countries, said the French ambassador to Senegal, Christine Fages. “Today, there are 17,000...
'May or may not': Trump weighs joining Israel-Iran war
The National News
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday sounded an ambiguous tone over whether the US would strike Iranian nuclear sites and said Tehran had made contact in a bid to negotiate. His comments come a day after he appeared to be preparing for war and...
Does China have an Internationalist Foreign Policy?
Dissident Voice
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June 19, 2025
A number of observant commentators have raised questions about Peoples’ China’s Belt and Road Initiative and more broadly, the foreign policy of the PRC. Reliable left observers like Ann Garrison, writing in Black Agenda Report, have voiced...
FIFA 2026 World Cup: How African Nations Can Secure Their Spot – Full Group Stage Draw Inside
News24
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June 14, 2025
Just a year to go before the inauguration of FIFA World Cup 2026 and the qualification scenario is heating up everywhere. The final list of the 48 participating nations is yet to be ratified but several teams have already qualified in what will be...
From capitalism to colonialism, how do structures of power control the way we think?
Peak
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June 19, 2025
Four works of non-fiction to broaden your world view By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi Rashid Khalidi’s account of the oppression faced by Palestinians is the perfect place to start for those who...
Explainer: How did Africa respond to the Iran-Israel conflict?
The New Arab
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June 18, 2025
As hostilities between Iran and Israel intensify, African countries issue a range of responses [Getty] African governments have issued a range of responses following Israel's ongoing airstrikes against Iran. While some states, such as South...
Hibs Europa League opponents revealed - video reaction and lowdown on dangerous Danish Euro veterans
Edinburgh Evening News
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June 18, 2025
Can David Gray’s men find the formula to leave data dons Midtjylland stumped? Hibs have been handed the toughest possible footballing challenge - but one of the easier logistical tests - for their opening fixtures in season 2024-45 after being...
Giant 'Saharan dust' plume swirls around Africa a week before it hit Florida — Earth from space
LiveScience
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June 17, 2025
QUICK FACTS Where is it? Mid-Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa What's in the photo? A giant, comma-shaped cloud of Saharan dust being blown out to sea Which satellite took the photo? GOES-19 When was it taken? May 28, 2025 Satellites...
FORCES: Mercenaries
Strategy Page
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June 14, 2025: Currently, dozens of mercenaries, also known as Private Military Contractors or PMCs, are operating around the world, most of them in Africa. These include Angola, Sierra Leone, Congo, Liberia, Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria,...
General Christopher Musa: A titan of Nigeria’s security renaissance
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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June 17, 2025
Actual deeds and decisive action not words, captures the very essence of General Christopher Gwabin Musa transformative leadership as Nigeria’s18th Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), which has reshaped the nation’s security landscape in all positive...
UN climate chief says crunch talks must deliver
The National News
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The UN climate chief has stressed the “world is watching” as 5,000 delegates gather in Germany for 10 days of crunch talks aimed at protecting the planet for future generations. Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework...
Netanyahu's war on Iran is perilous on so many levels
The National News
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a high-stakes military campaign against Iran – an initiative that not only undermines US President Donald Trump’s stated objective of negotiating a diplomatic resolution to Iran’s nuclear...
What Was Achieved at the UN Ocean Conference in France?
Earth.Org
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June 16, 2025
From pledges to establish Marine Protected Areas to calls for a Global Plastic Treaty and to end deep-sea mining, Earth.Org recaps the key achievements at last week’s UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France. — Some 15,000 people, including...
Marine energy: Harnessing the power of the Atlantic
Atlantic Council
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June 10, 2025
Issue Brief June 10, 2025 • 9:02 am ET Print this page Marine energy: Harnessing the power of the Atlantic By William Yancey Brown Following a decade-long partnership, the Policy Center for the New South and the Atlantic Council have joined forces...
PALOPs should take advantage of the advantages and think regionally, argues Sérgio Pimenta
Ver Angola
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In an interview with Lusa on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the independence of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, which is being celebrated this year, Sérgio Pimenta said that the Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP)...
United Capital Expands Reach Into 8 WAEMU Member Countries
Leadership
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June 16, 2025
United Capital Plc has expanded its footprint into Francophone West Africa with the launch of United Capital Asset Management West Africa Limited (UCAMWAL) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The company has obtained a license from the Financial Markets...
Angola proposes former minister Fátima Jardim as new Executive Secretary of the CPLP
Ver Angola
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Maria de Fátima Monteiro Jardim, a graduate in biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, who was vice-president of the Council of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), representing Africa, a position...