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Roaming Charges: After Midnight
CounterPunch
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June 27, 2025
B-2 Stealth bomber flying at night. Photo: Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder / U.S. Air Force. After midnight We’re gonna let it all hang out We’re gonna cause talk and suspicion Give an exhibition Find out what it is all about – JJ Cale, After Midnight...
Africa must not miss the boat on the WTO fishing subsidies deal
Premium Times
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June 27, 2025
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies is on track to be adopted this year, with Ghana the latest African country to ratify. Nine more ratifications are needed to reach the total of 111, which activates the treaty. The...
Great Green Wall innovations hailed on Desertification and Drought Day
Forests News
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June 27, 2025
From food made with overlooked native plants to handbags crafted from wild grasses—and even a simple rope tool to prevent wildfires—community-driven innovation is reshaping how land restoration takes root across Africa’s drylands. These are among...
Road to shared prosperity
China Daily Global
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WANG XIAOYING/CHINA DAILY China and African nations are consolidating the cooperation during challenging times As the world sleepwalks toward a new and dangerous regional conflict provoked by Israel's brazen attacks on Iran with the backing of...
China’s expanding strategic presence in Indian Ocean Region is a challenge for India: Parliament Committee Report
The Hindu
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June 28, 2025
Xinjiang, China, 12 July 2024: China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is more or less the Gateway to the Belt and Road Initiative as the region shares international borders with eight countries. Photo: Radhika Santhanam | Photo Credit: The Hindu...
History Today: When ex-Indian Army chief Sam Manekshaw breathed his last
Firstpost
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June 27, 2025
One of the most decorated officers of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw bid adieu to the world on June 27, 2008. Revered as ‘Sam Bahadur’, Manekshaw served the Indian Army for over four decades and played a...
From Cape To Cairo
Africa is a country
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On a warm April afternoon in 2024, Keith Boyd, 57, strolled through Cairo’s Zamalek district with the South African and Egyptian flags knotted across his shoulders. The late sun cast a dull gold sheen over the Nile as curious onlookers and...
African trade in a changing global financial architecture
CNBC Africa
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June 27, 2025
As Africa stands at the cusp of monumental economic transformation, the continent is embracing digital innovation and regional integration to bolster intra-continental trade. At the core of this transformation is the African Continental Free Trade...
Consumed by Terror: Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall faces crucial threat (1)
Premium Times
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June 25, 2025
Qosim Suleiman, Abdullah Tijani, Amma Moussa & Gaston Sawadogo Five years ago, Aliyu Garba, 45, was summoned to his village head’s palace to receive some exciting news: He would now participate in a massive tree-planting project commissioned by...
Liberia Named on Proposed U.S. List of Countries for Third-Country Deportations as Funding is Cut for Global Vaccine Program
Front Page Africa
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June 27, 2025
Immigrants looking out the windows of a plane after arriving in Costa Rica on a deportation flight from the United States in February. Costa Rica took 200 deportees in February, including citizens of China, India and Nepal. Credit: Reuters...
Less than 10% control Nigeria’s wealth, says ex-INEC commissioner
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 27, 2025
A former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu, has lamented the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of a few in Nigeria. While revealing that less than 10 per cent of...
India Seeks to Enhance Bilateral Ties with Uganda
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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June 27, 2025
By Faridah N Kulumba Recently the government of India invited 47 journalists, media professionals and editors from 23 countries from East Africa, Southern Africa, West Asia and North Africa for a familiarization tour in India. The East and...
Modi’s Landmark Africa-Caribbean Tour Targets China’s Influence
StratNews Global
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June 27, 2025
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing for a landmark diplomatic visit to Ghana, Namibia, and Trinidad and Tobago, set to begin on July 2, 2025. This multi-nation tour marks Modi’s first official trip to these countries and underscores India’s...
Supreme Court Abets Trump’s Defiance of Court Orders
TPM – Talking Points Memo
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June 24, 2025
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. As Josh Kovensky reported yesterday, the Supreme Court’s order pausing a preliminary injunction against Trump’s policy of...
GAIA Asia Pacific and GAIA Africa Convene Global South Leaders Ahead of INC-5.2
Pressenza
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June 25, 2025
GAIA Asia Pacific and GAIA Africa hosted Global South member state delegates in an online panel discussion titled “Advancing a Robust Financial Mechanism for the Prospective Plastics Instrument” on 24 June 2025. The event comes at a critical...
Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” collapses under Israeli strikes and regional shifts - Ivo Vegter
BizNews
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Houthis The Houthis, another Iranian proxy which controls large swathes of Yemen and opposes the internationally recognised government of Yemen, joined the Israel-Hamas war on 19 October 2023. Demanding an end to Israel’s action against Hamas, it...
“ASAN Khidmet" joins UN Public Service Forum 2025
Azertag
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June 25, 2025
Baku, June 25, AZERTAC An Azerbaijani delegation led by Jeyhun Salmanov, Deputy Chairman of the State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, participated in the United Nations (UN)...
Your Summer Project: Watching These Movies
The Atlantic
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June 25, 2025
The question that beguiles almost every film fan, from the obsessive cineast to the casual enthusiast, is the simplest one: What should I watch next? Endless carousels on streaming services that feature very little of note don’t provide much help....
Bankable projects, capital mobilisation, and derisking Africa: A glimpse
Business Day
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June 24, 2025
Africa holds some of the world’s most underutilised energy and agricultural resources, home to vast solar potential, the largest untapped hydropower and geothermal reserves, and the second-largest share of arable land. Yet, the continent continues...
Why China’s sitting on the Iran war sidelines
Asia Times
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June 25, 2025
On a visit to Shanghai some years ago, I asked a leading Chinese strategist how Beijing would view a war between the US and Iran, which even back then seemed a high probability. I thought he would opine on how higher oil prices could threaten...