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Top 10 African countries with the weakest currencies in June 2025
Business Insider Africa
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June 27, 2025
Many currencies, including the Egyptian pound and the Nigerian naira, have seen sharp declines in value in the previous year as a result of policy blunders, inflationary pressures, and a strong reliance on imports. But for some of these countries,...
Social Listening 27 June 2025: More Nigerians were kidnapped in one year than the populations of 15 countries
Business Day
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June 27, 2025
This NBS report shows that more people were kidnapped in Nigeria (2.2 million) in the past year than the populations of: Lesotho – 2,120,000 Slovenia – 2,118,697 Latvia- 1,871,871 Equatorial Guinea – 1,669,000 Guinea-Bissau – 1,663,000 Estonia-...
AU-IBAR Leads Drive to Safeguard Donkeys With New Continental Strategy
Capital FM Kenya
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June 26, 2025
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Jun 26 – Africa has taken a major step toward safeguarding the future of its donkey population, as leaders, experts, and stakeholders from across the continent gather in Abidjan for the Second Pan-African Donkey Conference...
US-Africa Business Summit: A showdown in Luanda
Sunday Independent
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June 26, 2025
Manuel Godsin|Published 20 hours ago 6min THE atmosphere at this year’s US-Africa Business Summit in Luanda was far from what American delegates expected. Instead of handshakes and optimistic speeches, African leaders delivered one of the most...
Russia challenging US, China for strategic clout in Africa
Asia Times
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June 26, 2025
Russia has never had an African colony. It stayed out of the scramble for Africa, only engaging with African states in the 19th Century. In 1869, for instance, the Russians gave Ethiopia military support to threaten the position of the British in...
Remi Tinubu Attends 7th MERCK Foundation Summit
New Telegraph
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June 18, 2025
Share The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has reaffirmed her commitment to championing programmes and initiatives that promote the health and education of girls and women in Nigeria. She emphasised that advancing the education of girls,...
Marcelo sees Mozambique “looking to the future”. Chapo comes to Lisbon
Portugal Pulse
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June 24, 2025
“Satisfied to see a country looking to the future, with a climate aiming for economic and social development, financial progress, justice, and consequently political and institutional stability,” remarked President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa upon...
Full list of the countries where rabies is 'high risk' after UK tourist dies
Manchester Evening News
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June 18, 2025
A woman has tragically died in the UK after becoming infected with rabies in Morocco. She is said to have contracted the fatal viral disease while coming into contact with a stray dog during a visit to Morocco, the UK Health and Security Agency...
Trump gives 36 countries Wednesday deadline to avoid travel ban
FOX 10 Phoenix - Arizona
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FILE-President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House on April 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) President Donald Trump has given 36 countries a Wednesday deadline to commit to improve its...
Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump’s Travel Bans?
The American Prospect
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June 23, 2025
In her early nineties, my mother had emergency surgery to remove her gallbladder, which had somehow managed to flip over and begun to rot. The physician who performed the surgery—from which she recovered completely—was an Iranian immigrant. I was...
Weaponising hunger: Frederick Forsyth’s account of a starved region the world ignored
The Economic Times
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June 22, 2025
The late Frederick Forsyth was best known for his thriller novels. But his most remarkable work might have been his first book, The Biafra Story (1969), reporting about the region that tried to break away from Nigeria, but was brutally subdued...
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...
The Power of Presidents—Even Trump—Is Nothing to the Power of Clean Energy Revolution
Common Dreams
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June 20, 2025
He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empire that made him, by the year 1030, the greatest...
Trump's Cuts and Restrictions Loom Over US-Africa Business Summit
Ver Angola
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Total trade in goods between the United States (US) and Africa was estimated at 71.6 billion dollars in 2024, according to US government data. A strategic rapprochement between Africa and the US was strengthened during the presidency of Joe Biden...
China and Africa consolidate dynamic partnership
Friends of Socialist China
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June 16, 2025
On June 11, 2025, the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held in Changsha, capital of China’s Hunan Province. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi...
US warns of expanded travel ban that could affect key African markets
ICEF Monitor
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June 19, 2025
"The United States is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration early this month," reports The Washington Post. The...
America’s New Industrial Revolution
TomDispatch
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June 19, 2025
He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empire that made him, by the year 1030, the greatest...
AfDB forecasts $40bn global aid cut, Zambia hit
Daily Nation
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June 18, 2025
BUUMBA CHIMBULU THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has projected that global aid from the world’s 17 largest donors will decline by US$39.84 billion in 2025, driven mainly by reduced contributions from the United States and Germany. Zambia is...
Tonga reveals MOSIP and VS One World foundations of DPI success
Biometric Update
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June 17, 2025
Tonga launched its TongaPass digital ID and digital government portal this month. The government is now ramping up registration as it visits eastern Tongatapu villages to register residents to TongaPass. The registration is free and the initiative...
US Embassy explains pending fresh travel ban
The Nation Malawi
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June 17, 2025
The Embassy of the United States of America (USA) in Malawi says the pending travel ban targeting 36 countries is part of USA’s efforts to ensure that foreign nationals adhere to that country’s laws. In a written response yesterday to The Nation...