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Senate Recommends N200m Compensation After NDLEA’s Stray Bullet Kills 2-year-old in Delta
This Day
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July 10, 2025
* Ethics Committee rejects agency’s N25m offer, urges Presidency to intervene Sunday Aborisade in Abuja In a sobering resolution that cast a spotlight on both bureaucratic accountability and the human cost of institutional failure, Senator Neda...
H.E. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Of Equatorial Guinea Today Received H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson & His Accompanying Delegation
MENAFN
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July 9, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) H.E. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea today received H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the @_AfricanUnion Commission&his accompanying delegation that included Deputy Chairperson...
Africa needs $170 billion yearly to close infrastructure gap
The Citizen
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Arusha. Africa requires between $130 billion and $170 billion annually to bridge a widening infrastructure gap that is estimated to reduce the continent’s economic growth by two percent annually and productivity by up to 40 percent, a Tanzanian...
Africa’s CSOs demand action on reparations
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 10, 2025
Civil society leaders have called for action on reparations for Africa, urging justice, accountability, and compensation. This took place at the African Union’s Economic, Social, and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) Civil Society Forum, held in...
Africans accuse Trump of chasing minerals and mocking their presidents
Modern Ghana
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People across Africa have hit out at this week's high-profile summit between Donald Trump and five African leaders, saying the US president showed little respect during a White House lunch and is only chasing the continent's minerals. Five heads...
Africa’s Billionaires Now Richer Than Half the Continent: Implications for Equality and Governance
The News Chronicle
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July 10, 2025
A new Oxfam report has highlighted Africa’s widening wealth gap in the wake of the announcement that four individuals on the list of continent’s richest people are wealthier than the combined financial value of over 50 percent of Africa’s...
Growth, not debt restructuring, more important for Africa: IMF
Semafor
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African countries seeking to stabilize their debt levels should prioritize increasing growth, balancing public finances, and strengthening institutions, International Monetary Fund economists said in a report. They argued that it is possible for...
Africa’s four richest men wealthier than half the continent combined
The Times
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Africa’s four richest people hold more wealth than half the continent’s population combined, the charity Oxfam reported, warning that skewed policies are fuelling deepening poverty and the soaring fortunes of a few. Africa had no billionaires in...
"It’s a heavy task": South African man breaks down Mkhwanazi’s Special Task Force uniform
Briefly
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July 11, 2025
A South African man shared insights into the distinctive uniform worn by Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, sparking admiration and interest online This comes after the South African law enforcement official made serious allegations of...
UNESCO Removes Three African Sites From Danger List In Major Conservation Win
MENAFN
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July 11, 2025
(MENAFN- AsiaNet News) UNESCO has removed three African sites-from Madagascar, Egypt, and Libya-from the List of World Heritage in Danger, marking a major success in global heritage preservation and restoration efforts In a significant...
Greece Suspends Migrant Asylum Applications From Africa
Balkan Insight
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July 11, 2025
Refugees and migrants outside the port authority in Lavrio, Greece, 10 July 2025. Photo: EPA/YANNIS KOLESIDIS, The Greek parliament on Friday voted to stop processing asylum applications from migrants arriving by sea from Africa for three months....
South Africans raise R38k to gift cows to General Mkhwanazi: “He deserves everything and more”
Briefly
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July 11, 2025
Social media users this week showed appreciation to the KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, for his anti-corruption stance South Africans on social media raised over R30,000 on Backabuddy to gift two cows to General Mkhwanazi,...
Undocumented Migrants From Africa To Be Expelled From Greece
teleSUR
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Migrants from Africa in the Mediterranean Sea. X/ @FamagustaG July 11, 2025 Hour: 8:16 am On Friday, the Greek Parliament approved a legal amendment that bars migrants arriving irregularly from North Africa from applying for asylum, and provides...
How Russia resorted to cleverly messaged communications targeting Africa after Wagner
The Standard
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and several African leaders attend the Navy Day parade in Saint Petersburg on July 30, 2023. [AFP] On September 11, 2024, a social networking app was launched at the University of Nairobi, which now appears to be...
Sundry Markets Limited- Owners of Marketsquare Supermarkets, listed as one of Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies for 2025 by the Financial Times
Pulse
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July 11, 2025
Sundry Markets Limited (SML) has been honored by the Financial Times (FT) as one of Africa’s fastest-growing companies for the second consecutive year. In its 2025 edition, which is the fourth in the series, FT, in collaboration with Statista,...
Africa top target for cyber attacks – Check Point report
ITWeb
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July 10, 2025
Lorna Hardie, regional director for Africa at Check Point Software Technologies. Africa has become the most targeted region globally for cyber attacks in the first quarter of 2025, according to new research from Check Point Software Technologies....
One US Letter Promotes Peace and Economic Growth in Africa
Borgen Magazine
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July 11, 2025
MONETA, Virginia — On June 17, 2025, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast wrote a letter to President Trump supporting the U.S. administration’s diplomatic efforts in assisting the engagement of the Democratic Republic of Congo...
‘SAPS leadership rot’ | Police expert says Senzo Mchunu lacked authority to disband political killings task team
IOL
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The leadership of the South African Police Service is rotting at the head and the public deserves to know why there were so much heightened levels of mistrust between the operational and political leaders of the law enforcement agency. Police...
Trump’s African summit was a masterclass in modern colonial theatre
Al Jazeera
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July 11, 2025
On July 9, United States President Donald Trump opened a three-day mini summit at the White House with the leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal – by subjecting his distinguished guests to a carefully staged public...
Trump’s African leaders summit focuses on deportation deals
Semafor
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The US pushed five West African countries whose leaders were invited to a special summit in Washington this week to accept migrants deported from America, The Wall Street Journal reported. Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal...