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Africa World Airlines launches Accra–Ouagadougou route, expands into Sahel region
Joy FM
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July 1, 2025
Africa World Airlines (AWA) has officially launched a new direct flight route between Accra, Ghana and Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, marking a significant step in its expansion into the Sahel region. The inaugural flight was announced at a...
More Hearts transfers to come as Derek McInnes reveals his plans - plus a loan deal
Edinburgh Evening News
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July 4, 2025
Tynecastle squad are in Spain preparing for an EFL friendly Hearts play the final friendly of their Spanish training camp against Crawley Town on Friday, after which head coach Derek McInnes will re-evaluate the first-team squad. He brought 28...
IUCN launches LOGMe II to scale up land restoration, livelihood interventions
Ghana News Agency
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July 4, 2025
By Anthony Adongo Apubeo Bolgatanga, July 4, GNA – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched Phase II of Ghana version of its flagship land restoration sustainable livelihood intervention project, LOGMe II, in...
Keep your America, Mr Trump, and we’ll keep our Africa
Al Jazeera
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July 4, 2025
On June 16, The New York Times disclosed that United States President Donald Trump is considering broadening his travel ban list to include as many as 36 additional countries, most of them African – including my country, Zimbabwe. Twelve days...
AS PRESIDENT BIO HEADS ECOWAS
This Day
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July 3, 2025
If there is renewed commitment to leadership, West Africa can surmount its pressing issues, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE The 67th Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States ended last...
Africa's Great Green Wall gets 222 mln USD in FAO grant to strengthen resilience
Xinhua News Agency
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NIAMEY, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and Niger have signed an agreement on a 222-million-U.S.-dollar grant for stronger resilience of Africa's Great Green Wall project. The agreement was...
JNIM’s Terror Reign Expands Across West Africa
Africa Defense Forum
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July 1, 2025
The Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin terror group unexpectedly stormed the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo early May 11 and began an onslaught that killed more than 100 civilians, Soldiers and paramilitary members. The jihadists, known as...
Mali’s promise of democracy fades as junta extends Assimi Goita’s rule
Modern Ghana
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Five years after taking power by force, Mali's junta leader, General Assimi Goita, has abandoned his promise of a democratic transition, extending his military rule for at least five more years without an election. Goita, 41, burst onto the public...
Gold stocks get the winter blues, too
Cairns Post
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July 4, 2025
The All Ords Gold sub-index is down 12% in the past month But June is often a down time for Aussie gold miners, Canaccord says Price bets from analysts remain bullish Wet weather got you feeling down in the dumps? There's seasonality, also, in the...
Warfare rewired: drones and civilian risk
Swissinfo
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July 4, 2025
A Ukrainian soldier launches FlyEye WB Electronics SA, a Polish reconnaissance drone, which is in service with the Ukrainian army, in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Aug. 2, 2022. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved Listen to the...
Gold Digger: Feel down about your gold stocks? It could just be seasonal depression
Stockhead
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July 4, 2025
Have the winter blues? ASX gold stocks may get 'em too. Pic: Getty Images The All Ords Gold sub-index is down 12% in the past month But June is often a down time for Aussie gold miners, Canaccord says Price bets from analysts remain bullish Wet...
Anxious residents re-emerge after Mali jihadist attacks
Macau Business
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July 2, 2025
People in towns in western Mali where jihadists attacked army sites a day earlier were afraid but went about their business Wednesday following the major assault which killed a civilian. Jihadist fighters staged early-morning strikes on military...
JNIM Attacks Across Mali; Biya Faces Challengers in Cameroon: Africa File, July 3, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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To receive the weekly Africa File or tri-weekly Congo War Security Review via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on X, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. Contributor: Miles Charles Key Takeaways: Cameroon. Cameroonian President Paul Biya is facing a...
Afrofest opens today and continues through the weekend at Woodbine Park
Beach Metro Community News
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July 4, 2025
Afrofest 2025 takes place at Woodbine Park from Friday, July 4, through to Sunday, July 6. Celebrating 37 years of championing African music in the city, not-for-profit community-based organization Music Africa brings Afrofest back to Woodbine...
TCL Targets West Africa With AI Product Expansion
News Ghana
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July 1, 2025
Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL has launched a major West African expansion, introducing AI-integrated consumer products across Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo, and Burkina Faso. The “Beyond With TCL” initiative, announced at an Accra event, marks...
“Making Ghana the True Black Star of the World” Book launched in Bibiani
Ghana News Agency
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July 2, 2025
By Daniel Akwasi Nuako Bibiani (WN/R) July 02, GNA – A book titled: “Making Ghana the True Black Star of the World” has been launched at Bibiani, outlining 16 key ministries and 58 policies to drive economic growth and stability, to attract...
Ghana new gold licensing regime takes full effect
CNBC Africa
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July 2, 2025
Ghana has announced the full enactment of a new gold licensing regime, a development that is set to fundamentally alter the landscape of gold trading in the country. This new regulation abrogates all gold trade licenses initially issued by the...
Togo protests signal youth anger at dynastic rule – but is change possible?
Yahoo News
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Lome, Togo – The chants have faded in the streets, the barricades have been cleared, and an eerie calm hangs over Togo after days of mass protests in the West African nation’s capital. But beneath the surface, anger simmers, security forces remain...
NHRC’s head elected president of West Africa’s human rights institutions network
Premium Times
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July 3, 2025
The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu, on Thursday promised to promote cooperation among West African States for the protection of human rights. He gave this assurance while accepting to serve as the...
The Sahel's juntas face a series of crises
Responsible Statecraft - Washington D.C.
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July 1, 2025
In Mali, General Assimi Goïta, who took power in a 2020 coup, now plans to remain in power through at least the end of this decade, as do his counterparts in neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger. As long-ruling juntas consolidate power in national...