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Trans African Tourism & Unity Campaign launches in Accra to champion visa-free Africa by 2030
CNR Citi Newsroom
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August 17, 2025
The Trans African Tourism & Unity Campaign will embark on a historic 40,000-kilometer road journey across 39 African countries, starting from Accra on Monday, August 18, 2025. This groundbreaking initiative is a 163 day road journey across Africa...
Everywhere Insiders 10: Global Security: Gaza, Ukraine, Asia, and African Political Stability
The Good Men Project - California
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August 17, 2025
Irina Tsukerman is a human rights and national security attorney based in New York and Connecticut. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in National and Intercultural Studies and Middle East Studies from Fordham University in 2006, followed by a Juris...
Chad: 20-Year Sentence for Opposition Leader
Human Rights Watch
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August 12, 2025
(Nairobi) – The guilty verdict and 20-year sentence imposed on August 9, 2025, on Succès Masra, leader of Chad’s main opposition party, is the culmination of a trial based on politically motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Masra, the...
Women and girls face growing peril in Africa’s Sahel
Baltimore Afro-American - Maryland
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August 16, 2025
By Wayne Campbell The world is becoming increasingly hostile towards women and girls. Sadly, by now, each one of us may know of someone who has been targeted with gender-based violence. What is equally disturbing is the fact that the public...
Anatomy of terror: Daesh expansion in Africa
Sabah
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August 15, 2025
In recent years, Africa has become one of the regions where Daesh is most active. Daesh factions are particularly active in West Africa, East Africa and the Sahel. A look at the 2025 Global Terrorism Index data reveals that the Sahel region stands...
Macron faces Africa’s backlash as colonial past haunts France
Today.Az
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August 15, 2025
By Leyla Tarverdiyeva, Day.az The past is relentlessly catching up with France, and it is almost impossible to avoid a “meeting” with it. French media report that President Macron has officially acknowledged France’s unflattering role in the...
ATTRITION: Islamic Terrorists Ravage Africa
Strategy Page
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August 15, 2025: Over 150,000 African deaths are attributed to Islamic terrorist groups in the past ten years. Escalating violence in the Sahel and Somalia have caused fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa to increase by 60...
Mpox declining, cholera spreading, says Africa CDC
Peoples Gazette
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August 15, 2025
One year after the World Health Organisation declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, Africa has made significant progress in controlling the disease. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which also...
9 must-see queer movies debuting fall 2025
Out Magazine
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August 14, 2025
Check out these exciting queer movies! Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey in Plainclothes; Jennifer Lopez in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Sundance Institute; Lionsgate FilmsWe're more than halfway through 2025, but many of the year's most anticipated movies...
Africa’s ‘Land-Linked’ Nations Chart a New Trade Route to Prosperity
Inter Press Service
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August 7, 2025
Africa, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Featured, Global, Headlines, Population, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Trade & Investment Landlocked Developing Countries UNDP Resident Representative in...
Africa’s crisis is Europe’s too
Unherd
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August 7, 2025
In an era when “crisis” is the word on everyone’s lips, there are still few places as crisis-stricken as the Horn of Africa, where war, drought, a booming population and a dearth of economic opportunities are making life unbearable for millions....
France's complete withdrawal from West Africa should worry the rest of the world
The National News
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Last month, France’s armed forces finished dismantling their bases in Senegal, the last West African country to have hosted a permanent French military presence. The withdrawal marked the final chapter of a French retreat from the region that...
The Digital Shift: Redefining Insurance with Smarter Payments
Banking Dive
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Succès Masra: how Chad’s opposition firebrand came to be sen...
Modern Ghana
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Chad's opposition firebrand and a former prime minister, Succès Masra, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on 9 August. He was accused of inciting violence and hate speech on social media, leading to the death of 42 people in a clash between...
Succès Masra: how Chad’s opposition firebrand came to be sentenced to 20 years in prison
The Conversation
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August 12, 2025
Chad’s opposition firebrand and a former prime minister, Succès Masra, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on 9 August. He was accused of inciting violence and hate speech on social media, leading to the death of 42 people in a clash between...
BeIN Sports: How to Watch English Premier League 2025/26 Football on TV in UAE, Saudi and Across MENA
Gulf Insider
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August 13, 2025
The English Premier League returns for the 2025/26 season on Friday, August 15 when Liverpool take on Bournemouth at the iconic Anfield stadium. Liverpool, the most successful club in the history of English football, will be looking to repeat the...
Meghan and Harry tease new Netflix documentary on African orphans - and fans are drawing parallels with how the Sussexes view their own lives
Daily Mail
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August 12, 2025
One of the upcoming projects part of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's 'first look' deal with Netflix is a short documentary about an African orphanage in Uganda. The orphanage is home to the Masaka Kids, a dancing troupe comprising children aged...
Derrick Köhn can solve Black Stars' left back woes - Sannie Daara
Modern Ghana
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Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) Communications Director Ibrahim Sannie Daara believes Derrick Köhn could finally resolve the Black Stars’ long-standing left-back dilemma following his first call-up to the national team. The 26-year-old...
How to watch Premier League 2025/26: live stream guide, TV channels and key dates
TechRadar
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August 12, 2025
2025/26's Premier League live streams see Arne Slot leading Liverpool into the season as champions, with Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea and the rest all hoping to dethrone them. Below we have all the information on how to watch Premier League 2025/26...
Goal and Highlights for Kenya 1-0 Morocco in African Nations Championship Match
VAVEL
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August 10, 2025
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