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Goldstar Air To Help Improve Livelihood Of The Ghanaian Cocoa Farmer
News Ghana
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July 14, 2025
Private international airline Goldstar Air, Ghanaian and United States registered company with an issued Air Carrier Licence (ACL/N-SCH No. 0239) from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to operate passenger and cargo flights across West...
‘Barcelona’s new 10 – Lamine Yamal turns 18 and takes centre stage’
Joy FM
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July 17, 2025
"Comparisons are odious," wrote Cervantes in Don Quijote. Nowhere is that more true than in football - a world fuelled by statistics, noise, and the endless urge to crown the next Lionel Messi. Lamine Yamal has heard it all before. When the...
Finance Ministry Calls for Hiring Limits as Public Pay Eats Up Revenues
Business in Cameroon
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July 17, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon's Ministry of Finance is urging significant recruitment limitations and continued efforts to clean up the payroll database. Its recommendation, contained in the Medium Term Economic and Budgetary Programming...
US sends deported criminals to Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy
The Indian Express
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July 17, 2025
The United States has deported five foreign nationals convicted of serious crimes to Eswatini, a small southern African kingdom ruled by Africa’s last absolute monarch. The deportees, from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos, were flown to the...
João Lourenço advocates for greater African integration in an increasingly competitive world
Ver Angola
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"Regional integration in Africa is more than a political ideal" and includes "economic and social integration," said João Lourenço in his opening address at the 7th AU Biannual Coordination Meeting. João Lourenço advocated for "defining roadmaps...
Trump’s disrespect for African states persists
Sabah
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July 15, 2025
Forging a diplomatic endeavour among many states aims to achieve a quid pro quo status in international relations. While these relations strive to be on equal footing, mutual respect is highly encouraged among leaders, especially in their...
AGRA President to Africa: The Future of Farming Won’t Be Donor-Funded—It Will Be Investor-Driven
Nyasa Times
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July 25, 2025
Alice Ruhweza, the dynamic new President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), is not your typical development bureaucrat. She speaks in bold terms—systems, scale, strategy—but her message is piercingly clear: “The future of...
Egypt Mining Forum opens to promote exploration and investment
African Mining Market
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July 15, 2025
The Egypt Mining Forum has kicked off in its fourth edition at the Nile Ritz-Carlton hotel in Cairo on 15th July 2025. The two-day event is held under the theme ‘Accelerating Commercial Exploration, Discovery and Extraction and Achieving Value...
Questions arise over Zimbabwean Wicknell Chivayo rubbing shoulders with African presidents
Maravi Express
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July 16, 2025
* Met Chakwera yesterday and is reported to have unfettered access to power, with his interactions with presidents including his own Emmerson Mnangagwa * He has before met former Malawi President Peter Mutharika, Kenya’s William Ruto, Uganda’s...
Oxfam report reveals four...
Capital Ethiopia
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July 13, 2025
A new report by Oxfam has laid bare the deepening inequality crisis in Africa, revealing that just four of the continent’s richest billionaires collectively hold $57.4 billion in wealth—surpassing the combined wealth of 750 million people, or half...
Beyond Survival: The Agriculture Bank as Liberia’s Next Big Leap
Liberian Observer
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Liberia’s agriculture sector remains both the backbone and the most underutilized asset of the national economy. As of 2023, agriculture accounts for approximately 30% of Liberia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs more than 70% of the...
Food Insecurity: Stakeholders Demand Urgent Reforms, Increased Funding in 2026 Agriculture Budget
This Day
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July 21, 2025
.Decries 1.2% 2025 budgetary allocation .Says 30.6m Nigerians face acute food insecurity Sunday Ehigiator As deliberations for the 2026 national budget intensify, stakeholders from across Nigeria’s agriculture sector have issued a call for urgent...
Trump meets presidents of 5 African nations in bid to boost trade
United Press International (UPI)
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July 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday met the presidents of five African nations -- Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon -- in what the White House describes as a push to deepen trade, including that involving...
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...
Eminent persons gather for National Dialogue - Ockham Observer weekly news diary
Politicsweb
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Tuesday, 08 July 2025 08/07/25 iSERVICE Eminent persons gather for National Dialogue - Ockham Observer weekly news diary Ockham Communications | 7 July 2025 | 06 July 2025 President Ramaphosa’s Eminent Persons Group meets to set agenda for...
Flanking tactics
Business World
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July 9, 2025
Don’t look now, but if we’re not careful, we could find ourselves legally outflanked over the West Philippine Sea. In a move widely reported abroad on May 30 but which merited just minor, bottom-page treatment in the “World” pages of two local...
The Gambia 2026: A nation’s reckoning, a Republic reborn
The Standard Gambia
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July 8, 2025
- Advertisement - By Dr Lamin K Janneh I. Introduction: A nation’s reckoning The year 2026 stands as a crucible for the soul of The Gambia. It is not merely an election cycle, it is an existential referendum on whether our republic becomes a...
Dangote Refinery Sourced 53% Local Crude in June, Aims for 100% by December
Arise News
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July 9, 2025
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 barrels a day of imported oil, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The plant...
Are anti-corruption measures a pipe dream for African countries?
IOL
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African Anti-Corruption Day is observed on 11 July annually to commemorate the adoption of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combatting Corruption in 2003. Corruption remains a major obstacle to economic development and continues to...
Equatorial Coca-Cola to acquire Voltic Ghana, expand West Africa presence
Independent (Uganda)
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July 9, 2025
Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company production plant Accra, Ghana | THE INDEPENDENT | Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company has reached an agreement to acquire Voltic (GH) Limited and West African Refreshments Limited from Coca-Cola Beverages...