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Russia Increases Fertilizers and Agricultural Exports to Africa
The News Chronicle
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July 6, 2025
With geopolitical developments shaping the world, Africa is expectedly changing with the times. It has gone far, particularly with Russia, opened new directions in bilateral economic cooperation after their joint historic summits. It is also time...
Michael Mazza On Taiwan: Bombing Iran was good for Asia
Taipei Times
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July 6, 2025
As things heated up in the Middle East in early June, some in the Pentagon resisted American involvement in the Israel-Iran war because it would divert American attention and resources from the real challenge: China. This was exactly wrong....
India dives deeper as China cements undersea supremacy
The Economic Times
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July 4, 2025
The Indo-Pacific region is witnessing a transformative phase in naval competition, with undersea warfare potentially emerging as a pivotal arena in the evolving India-China strategic rivalry. According to a 2024 report by the US Department of...
A rhythmic heartbeat is pulsing through Earth beneath Africa
Science Focus
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July 5, 2025
A heartbeat-like pulse has been discovered beating deep beneath East Africa – and it's ripping the continent apart. The strange thumping is caused by a rhythmic surge of molten mantle rock rising and falling under the Earth’s surface, according to...
Gov’t Scraps Ogaden Gas Export Plans in Policy Shift
The Reporter Ethiopia
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June 28, 2025
Mines Ministry revives import reduction ambitions The government has officially scrapped long-touted plans to export natural gas from the Ogaden Basin through a pipeline to Djibouti, citing persistent financing hurdles and implementation delays....
Surviving Unrepaired Tetralogy of Fallot to 43 Years in a Low-Resource Setting: The Oldest Reported Case from Somalia
Dove Medical Press
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July 4, 2025
Introduction Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is a congenital cyanotic heart defect, first described in detail by Étienne-Louis Fallot in 1888. It is characterized by a combination of four distinct anatomical abnormalities: right ventricular (RV)...
Egypt is diversifying its military partners away from the US
The Reporter Ethiopia
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July 5, 2025
Between 19 April and 4 May 2025, China and Egypt conducted their first-ever joint air exercises, “Civilization Eagle 2025,” at Egypt’s Wadi Abu Rish Air Base. This marks a significant step in China’s military diplomacy in North Africa. China’s...
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...
Degrees of excellence: Senior enlisted leader didn't stop at one doctorate
GCU Today
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June 27, 2025
Chief Master Sgt. Tina Gilson, whose dissertation for her second doctoral degree was signed in the spring, has served in Djibouti, East Africa, as well as Iraq and Qatar and on bases in Georgia, New Mexico and Florida. (Contributed photo) EDITOR'S...
Seven Things Tom Cotton Needs to Learn About China
Dissident Voice
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July 4, 2025
US Senator Tom Cotton recently published a book titled Seven Things You Can’t Say About China. I decided to put myself through the aggravated torture of reading it, just to see what he had to say, and now mourn hours of life that I’ll never get...
China Is Not Ready for Global Leadership
Foreign Policy
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s profound changes to Washington’s foreign policy during the past few months have unleashed a debate about the extent to which the self-destruction of U.S. global leadership is empowering China. The idea that U.S....
A Port, A Pipeline, and a Future Rewritten: How Ethiopia’s Hidden Rivers Can Transform the Horn of Africa
Zehabesha
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July 3, 2025
A Port, A Pipeline, and a Future Rewritten: How Ethiopia’s Hidden Rivers Can Transform the Horn of Africa In the rugged embrace of Ethiopia’s eastern highlands, rivers like the Genale-Dawa surge relentlessly to nowhere — vanishing into dry...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
China’s Military Diplomacy in the New Era
The Diplomat
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July 4, 2025
As the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has modernized into a more capable global force, it has significantly expanded its international military engagement in support of China’s foreign policy objectives. Drawing on a new National Defense...
Telecom Egypt and SubCom complete landings of SEA-ME-WE-6 subsea cable
SatelliteProME
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July 4, 2025
Photo credit: Telecom Egypt Telecom Egypt, the country’s integrated telecom operator and a subsea cables provider, together with SubCom, the global supplier of subsea data systems, has announced the completion of two critical landings of the...
Shanxi to expand decades-long medical aid in Africa
China Daily
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Zhang Bo Shanxi province is expanding its overseas medical aid efforts as it promotes a Sino-African health community while continuing to advance high-quality development in its own health sector, according to Zhang Bo, director of the provincial...
Trump administration could deport immigrants to 58 other countries after Supreme Court opened door for swift removals
The Independent
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June 25, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Telecom Egypt and SubCom Complete Egypt Landings for SEA-ME-WE-6 Cable System
The Fast Mode
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July 4, 2025
Telecom Egypt, the total telecom operator in Egypt and one of the largest subsea cables operators in the region, along with SubCom, the global subsea data system supplier, announced the successful completion of the two landings of the Southeast...
Fireworks expected
Santa Fe Reporter - New Mexico
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July 2, 2025
As America’s birthday approaches, I want to introduce you to Sam Albert. You won’t have heard of him; he wasn’t famous and he wasn’t a character instantly recognizable as a mover and shaper of history. But he was a fundamentally decent man. Sam...
African nations open to energy cooperation with Türkiye: APPO head
Sabah
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June 23, 2025
Africa needs to expand its international partnerships beyond traditional allies to fully harness its vast energy resources, the secretary general of the African Petroleum Producers' Organization (APPO) Omar Farouk Ibrahim said, signaling Türkiye...