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Russia’s expanding role in Africa’s food security
Business and Financial Times
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July 15, 2025
By Kestér Kenn KLOMEGÂH As global geopolitical dynamics shift, Africa continues to recalibrate its economic partnerships, particularly with Russia. Following two high-profile Russia–Africa summits, cooperation in the area of food security emerged...
Natural Gas Gets A Political Jolt—But Pipeline Gaps Risk The Payoff
Forbes
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 04: President Donald Trump holds up the "One, Big Beautiful Bill" Act that was ... More signed into law as during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 04, 2025 in Washington,...
June confirmed wettest month of 2025 so far
The Scottish Farmer
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July 12, 2025
Harvest 2025 The UK winter barley harvest is underway with recent hot weather speeding crops through their final stages of development towards harvest that is approximately at least 7-10 days earlier than normal. Harvesting is taking place...
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...
Dubai Metro Blue Line project to disrupt some traffic, RTA warns
The National News
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Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority on Tuesday warned motorists of traffic diversions in the Mirdif area as construction work is set to begin on the Dubai Metro Blue Line. The authority also advised drivers to use alternative routes where...
Germany Publishes Per Capita Crime Rates For the First Time With Some Astonishing Results
Breitbart
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July 8, 2025
Algerian teenagers are an astonishing 56 times more likely to be suspected of a crime than their German-born counterparts, according to new German statistics published for the first time. “In almost all crime categories surveyed, foreign nationals...
Nigerian navy’s mission to safeguard national security and prosperity
The Cable
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July 11, 2025
BY MUSA ILALLAH In the early hours of Wednesday, June 18, 2025, a band of terrorists attacked the naval base Lake Chad in Baga, Borno state, targeting military equipment at the base, including swamp buggies recently made available by the governor...
Why Natural Gas Is Still Thriving In A World Chasing Net Zero
Forbes
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CAMERON LOUISIANA - JUNE 7: A large liquified natural gas transport ship sits docked in the ... More Calcasieu River on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, near Cameron, La. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)Houston Chronicle via Getty Images...
Dangote blames fuel imports on corruption, calls for local investment
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 16, 2025
Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote Industries Limited, has attributed Africa’s dependence on imported petroleum products to systemic corruption and a failure to invest in local refining infrastructure, warning that the continent has effectively...
Great European Eclipse 2026: When is it and how to view the eclipse
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 11, 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...
Senegal joins growing list of countries that have eliminated trachoma
Media Monitors Network
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July 14, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal becomes the ninth country in WHO’s African Region to have achieved this feat. “I commend Senegal for freeing its population...
NATO: The Most Dangerous Organization
Consortium News
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July 15, 2025
By the time of its out-of-theater intervention in Afghanistan, it became clear that NATO now had the ability and permission to operate as the policeman of the U.S.-led order. Cover art by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. By...
The Weekend Itinerary — How to Spend 48 Hours in Arles, the "Little Rome of Provence", According to Our Lifestyle Editor
Livingetc
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July 11, 2025
Every image-maker will know there isn't a more exciting time of the year to travel to Arles than July, when Les Rencontres d'Arles, one of the foremost photography festivals in the world, gathers over 100,000 visitors from all corners of the globe...
Feature: Trump’s African summit was a masterclass in modern colonial theatre
The Chronicle News Online
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July 16, 2025
To dodge Trump’s tariffs and wrath, five African presidents played the role of loyal colonial subject, and left their dignity behind. On July 9, United States President Donald Trump opened a three-day mini summit at the White House with the...
35 countries arrive Nigeria for 3rd CAA U18/U20 African Athletics Championship
New National Star
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July 15, 2025
BY BEN OGBEMUDIA, in ABEOKUTA The stage is set for the third edition of the CAA U18/U20 African Athletics Championship, as 35 African countries have landed in Nigeria, gearing up for the continental showdown in Abeokuta. The latest...
‘We have a responsibility to carry on the torch of our ancestors’
Atalayar
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July 11, 2025
Once upon a time, in Madrid in the 1960s, an Algerian migrant arrived from France in search of a new beginning. The man, named Ahmed Sahri, set out to open a Maghreb restaurant in the Spanish capital. Construction began in 1963 and took three...
SUMMER FRIDAYS DEP'T.: Sky variants
INDIGNITY
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July 11, 2025
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 125 One of this week's also-ran pictures of the sky for WEATHER REVIEWS, Indignity Vol. 5, No. 124 Previously, on INDIGNITY THE WORST THING WE READ™ Hack journalism Indignity Vol. 5, No. 121 The first of the three bylines...
Trump tax bill supercharges Coast Guard’s Arctic icebreaker fleet
Anderson Independent-Mail - South Carolina
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On Thursday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes breaks down a part of the recent tax bill that adds new ships to the Coast Guard's fleet in the Northwest Passage, and the broader context in that region...
Newly-Discovered Meteorite Offers Insights into Volcanic Processes on Ancient Mars
Sci-News
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July 10, 2025
The Martian meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 16254 is a 406-g gabbroic shergottite found two years ago in Algeria. Image of the entire NWA 16254 sample studied by Chen et al.: (a) a backscattered electron (BSE) image obtained by the TESCAN...
WAFCON 2024: Zambia Not A Tough Team –Super Falcons Defender, Demehin
Complete Sports
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July 15, 2025
Bro, the Super Falcons, for all their institutional challenges, still command massive respect on this continent. Let’s be fair: even when chaos reigns at the top, these ladies still show up with pride, grit, and undeniable quality. They remain the...