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Africa’s freshwater ecosystems depend on little creatures like insects and snails: study maps overlooked species
The Conversation
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July 13, 2025
Africa’s tropical belt, defined by the Guinean forests of west Africa and the Congo Basin of central Africa, is globally recognised for its astounding biodiversity. Beneath the surface of this ecological region lies the world of freshwater...
NextGeo expands into new regions via acquisition of share in 61-year-old Italian firm
Offshore Energy
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July 22, 2025
Italy-headquartered Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has signed a sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of 75.4% of the share capital of a compatriot subsea services company established in 1964, thereby expanding its operations into the...
Are Kenya’s agricultural budgets delivering returns?
CNBC Africa
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July 28, 2025
Agriculture remains the cornerstone of Kenya's economy, serving as a critical source of livelihoods for millions, and yet major challenges persist in realizing the potential returns on public spending dedicated to this vital sector. Despite...
Buhari: Diplomatic Corps, UN officials troop to Nigeria House
Eagle Online
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July 21, 2025
Members of the Diplomatic Corps throughout the week trooped into Nigeria House in New York, United States of America to pay their final respects to Nigeria’s late former President, Muhammadu Buhari. Ambassadors and UN officials from Africa,...
Payment Automation Hacks: Best Practices to Streamline & Scale Your AP Processes
CFO Dive
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Diplomatic corps, UN officials troop to Nigeria House for Buhari
News Diary Online
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July 21, 2025
Members of the diplomatic corps throughout the week, trooped into Nigeria House in New York to pay their final respects to Nigeria’s late former President Muhammadu Buhari. By Prudence Arobani Members of the diplomatic corps throughout the week,...
IGAD rallies African unity at AU mid-year summit, champions Agenda 2063 vision
The Standard
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Workneh Gebeyehu (PhD) IGAD Executive Secretary. [Courtesy] The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is playing a central role in advancing Africa’s integration and development agenda as the continent prepares for the 7th African...
Africa Heritage Fund Launches Continental Infrastructure Campaign
News Ghana
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July 11, 2025
Leaders and investors convened in Malabo this weekend to advance the Africa Heritage Fund for Infrastructure (AHFI) and its “Operation One Dollar a Day” initiative. The proposal aims to mobilize 50 million Africans and global supporters to...
Angolan Maria de Fátima Jardim elected executive secretary of the CPLP
Ver Angola
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Maria de Fátima Jardim succeeds Timorese Zacarias da Costa, who served two terms in the position (since 2021). The new Executive Secretary holds a degree in biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and served as...
Can EAC overcome own hurdles to lead Africa’s largest trade bloc?
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. The East African Community (EAC) has assumed the rotating chairmanship of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Task Force (TTF) at a pivotal moment, renewing hopes for a more harmonised and integrated regional trade framework. But a key...
“Quo vadis, orbi?” a symposium on the world
OnCuba News
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July 17, 2025
I was teaching for the first time at Columbia University during the first Gulf War in 1991. As the snow fell on New York during that “spring semester,” as they call it there, smart bombs were falling from the sky in Iraq. Where I was, it was...
Claver Gatete calls for urgent collective action as Africa faces converging crises
Ghana Business News
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July 16, 2025
Claver Gatete – ECA Executive Secretary The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr Claver Gatete, has called for urgent collective action as Africa faces converging crises, including slow growth. Mr Gatete was speaking...
Acne Burden is Growing in Young Women Across the World, New Study Finds
Dermatology Times
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July 18, 2025
Recent data has analyzed global trends in acne burden in young women of reproductive age over the last 31 years.1 The burden has risen in all age groups and will continue to grow, with a forecast up to 2040. Results were extracted from Global...
The Obidients And Their Masters: A Brief History Of Grand Deception, By Raphael Adebayo
Sahara Reporters
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From the sidelines, I have watched the movement named after Peter Obi assume different forms to adapt to the contentious and often acrimonious nature of Nigerian politics. It has duly transformed from a too conciliatory, good-natured, even...
Kenya 'off-track on hunger goals'
The Standard
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IGAD's policy and food security expert, Dr Sylvia Henga addresses the media on the sidelines of the 5th Biennial Review validation conference at a Machakos hotel. [Erastus Mulwa/Standard] Kenya still faces a potential threat of hunger despite the...
Dangote Refinery Hopes to Process 100% Nigerian Crude By Year End
This Day
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July 9, 2025
•Foundation to contribute to climate fund Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) expects Africa’s biggest refinery to rely totally on Nigerian crude by the end of the year, a move that would replace hundreds of thousands of...
'Africa's reparations call no longer a whisper' - President Mahama
GhanaWeb
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July 18, 2025
President John Dramani Mahama has made a powerful declaration when he presented a progress report in Malabo on the AU’s 2025 Theme, “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”. He said, “Africa’s call for reparative...
Ghana and Australia Deepen Ties in Key Sectors
News Ghana
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July 16, 2025
Ghana’s Foreign Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has announced significant progress in strengthening bilateral relations with Australia. This follows what he termed a highly productive meeting with the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana,...
‘Tax the super-rich’
Independent (Uganda)
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July 14, 2025
Oxfam report warns of danger ahead as gap widens between rich and poor COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | In 1990, just one in 10 people living in extreme poverty around the world lived in Africa. In 2024, it was seven in ten. Since 2020, the number of...
Having no success with an Arab army, Egypt turns to Africa
The New Arab
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July 17, 2025
A picture of Egyptian soldiers in a boat in the Military Museum which is dedicated to displaying the valiant history of the Egyptian military throughout the ages on 2 September 2024 in Cairo, Egypt. [Getty] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...