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Opinion | Plugging a growing gap
Witness
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July 1, 2025
Gulf sovereign wealth and private capital are moving swiftly to plug a growing gap in Africa’s development scene, as Beijing eases back from its once-dominant role as the continent’s chief financier. From 2012 to 2022, Gulf Co-operation Council...
Media reports more African nations face US visa prohibition
MENAFN
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June 19, 2025
(MENAFN) The United States intends to widen its controversial travel restrictions to citizens from 36 additional countries, with 25 of them located in Africa, according to an internal State Department memo reported by The Washington Post over the...
4 Caribbean islands face potential US visa restrictions
Virgin Islands News Online
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WASHINGTON D.C., USA- According to a leaked United States (US) State Department memo, four Caribbean islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia, are being considered for travel restrictions as part of the US'...
This Spanish town welcomed migrants. Integrating them is harder.
Christian Science Monitor
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June 30, 2025
From behind her counter at the laundromat, María José Gómez watches los chicos (the boys), as they are called here, amble to and from their home in a hotel at the edge of her sleepy town. Though she doesn’t know any of their names, she knows each...
Three Ways To Experience Canada’s Fabulous Folk Art Biennale
Forbes
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Trinity's historic buildings are hosting several Bonavista Bienale installations this year. PHOTO BY JOE YOGERST Venice laid the groundwork with the 1895 debut of an ambitious art, architecture and innovation show that takes place every two years...
Coaches play crucial role in development of volleyball athletes- GVBF 1st VP
The Point
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Jammeh was speaking during the opening ceremony of a five-day technical coach course at the Baobab Holiday Resort on Saturday. "There are a lot of programmes going on. Youths games are ongoing at the beach and indoor. We cannot achieve anything if...
PM Mitchell: Regional governments must be prepared to negotiate with Trump
Now Grenada
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June 18, 2025
by Linda Straker Story about travel ban list originally published by The Washington Post last weekend 36 countries identified in cable sent to US embassies on weekend 4 on list are OECS member states with Citizenship by Investment Programmes Prime...
What Nigeria can learn from Vice President’s visit to Ethiopia
Daily Trust
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July 1, 2025
When Vice President Kashim Shettima visited Ethiopia in June 2025 and took part in the Green Legacy Project, he didn’t just plant a tree—he symbolically planted hope for Africa’s future. Ethiopia’s tree-planting campaign, which aims to reclaim...
Building a winning system – Unlocking Ghana’s football potential for economic and social growth
Daily Maverick
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June 30, 2025
In July 2010, as the vuvuzelas roared across Johannesburg, the hopes of a continent rested on the shoulders of Asamoah Gyan. With one penalty kick, Ghana could have become the first African nation to reach a World Cup semifinal. He missed. And...
When Trump Closes an Ok or Bad Window, will we Open a Good D...
Modern Ghana
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Imagine if that was the headline in every major media house beyond Africa. My test is sometimes seemingly harder than that of Jesus (pbuh), because opening the eyes of the mentally blind is harder than the physically blind... Imagine pressuring...
An Open Letter to the ECOWAS Chairman: On the Ongoing Repres...
Modern Ghana
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Your Excellency, Before I begin this letter, permit me a moment of mourning. Oh sons of courage, daughters of resistance — your names echo in the winds of Lomé. You rose not with guns, but with grit — not with hatred, but with hope. Now your blood...
SADIO MANÉ IN TOWN
The Standard Gambia
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June 18, 2025
- Advertisement - Senegal’s international footballer Sadio Mané arrived in The Gambia yesterday on a short visit. The star footballer iwill be hosted by Oryx Energies- Gambia, a leading oil marketing company with fuel stations littered across the...
Roundup: Italy to admit 500,000 non-EU workers by 2028 amid ongoing migration challenges
Xinhua News Agency
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ROME, June 30 (Xinhua) -- The Italian government on Monday approved a new decree setting annual quotas for the admission of non-European Union (EU) workers, allowing up to 497,550 individuals to enter the country for employment over the next three...
ILO engages West African journalists on reframing labour migration reportage
Tribune Online
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June 30, 2025
In a bid to reframe the narrative around labour migration and fair recruitment across West Africa, especially in the media, journalists, trade union leaders, and labour advocates from 12 ECOWAS countries convened in Abuja from June 24 to 25, 2025,...
Coalition of Governments Unites Behind Strict Trade Protections For Shark and Ray Species Freefalling Toward Extinction: Including Iconic Whale Sharks and Manta Rays
Newswise
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June 30, 2025
Link to Photos of Shark and Ray Species Newswise — New York, June 30, 2025 – Urgently needed proposals to protect the world’s most threatened shark and ray species that are freefalling toward extinction, including whale sharks, oceanic whitetips,...
Immigration: 36 countries threatened with exclusion by Trump, is Tunisia in the crosshairs?
Tunisie Numerique
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June 18, 2025
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump, whose influence continues to shape current policy, has officially warned 36 countries—25 of them located in Africa—giving them a 60-day deadline to...
Inside Ollie Watkins' lavish wedding party: Aston Villa ace celebrates marriage in gorgeous French venue weeks after tying the knot to stunning wife Ellie Alderson
Daily Mail
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June 18, 2025
Aston Villa and England star Ollie Watkins continued his wedding celebrations with a lavish summer party in France, weeks after tying the knot to his wife Ellie Alderson. The couple, who got engaged last summer while on holiday in Italy, confirmed...
When Trump Closes an Ok or Bad Window, will we Open a Good Door or Just Complain?
The News Chronicle
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June 30, 2025
Imagine if that was the headline in every major media house beyond Africa. My test is sometimes seemingly harder than that of Jesus (pbuh), because opening the eyes of the mentally blind is harder than the physically blind… Imagine pressuring the...
Indy Shorts Festival Announces 2025 Lineup, Showcasing Films Starring Imelda Staunton, André Holland, Lena Headey, Amy Sedaris And More
Deadline
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June 25, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Motorsports and basketball. Indianapolis has become a mecca for those activities as the home of the Indy 500 and the Pacers (who came up just short of winning the NBA crown this year). In recent years, Indianapolis has also become an...
EXCLUSIVE: Morocco’s coach, Vilda, set to name squad for WAFCON 2024
Prompt News Online
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June 17, 2025
**As pre-tournament camp ends Friday By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau With some countries yet tok name their preliminary squads for the pre-tournament camping ahead of the start of the CAF Women’s Africa Cup of (WAFCON) on July 5, the host...