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OCHA Warns about Rising Global Food Insecurity
The Reporter Ethiopia
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July 5, 2025
In what it dubs a ‘hyper-prioritized report’, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warns that nearly 300 million people around the world are in urgent need of assistance in light of global humanitarian funding cuts,...
Instant Fernandez upgrade: Rangers "close to agreeing" move for 6 ft 4 star
Football FanCast
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July 5, 2025
Glasgow Rangers manager Russell Martin knew that he had to make a fast start to the summer transfer window, especially with the Champions League qualifiers zooming into focus. Indeed, his first competitive match against Panathinaikos is just a few...
Advancing Leukemia Diagnosis and Treatment: WHO-Supported Laboratory Innovations in Africa- A Narrative Review
Dove Medical Press
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June 24, 2025
Introduction Leukemia, a hematologic cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, represents a major health challenge worldwide, including in Africa. It is a disease that, if diagnosed early, can be treated more effectively, leading to improved...
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...
UNHCR, partners launch project to enhance living conditions of refugees
Ghana News Agency
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July 5, 2025
By Philip Tengzu Zini, (UW/R), July 05, GNA – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), in partnership with the European Union (EU) and UNICEF, has launched a project aimed at improving the living conditions of forcibly displaced persons in Northern Ghana...
Russia, Mali ink nuclear energy agreement
MENAFN
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June 30, 2025
(MENAFN) Russia and Mali have signed an agreement to deepen collaboration on the peaceful use of nuclear energy, Rosatom announced on Tuesday. The deal, involving the Russian state nuclear company, includes infrastructure development, joint...
ECOWAS and its survival
Daily Trust
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July 4, 2025
Let me begin by congratulating the government and people of Ghana on the occasion of this year’s Republic Day celebrations. I must also commend the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Teshie, for organising this lecture. As you may be...
UNICEF Executive Director visits the Sahel as insecurity and displacement continue to affect children
Odisha Diary
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June 23, 2025
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO, 21 June 2025 – At the end of a mission to Burkina Faso, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell today called for urgent action to protect children across the Sahel whose lives are upended by insecurity, displacement...
A SHERLOCK toolbox for the eco-epidemiological surveillance of animal African trypanosomosis reveals a similar parasite diversity in domestic pigs in two ancient sleeping sickness foci in Western Africa
eLife
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Through a combination of vector control, reactive screening, passive diagnosis, new therapeutic drugs and the support of national control programmes, donors and stakeholders, interrupting the transmission of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis...
RISE-Ghana begins social cohesion project in border districts
Ghana News Agency
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July 4, 2025
By Anthony Adongo Apubeo Bolgatanga, July 4, GNA – A new initiative aimed at promoting peace, inclusion, and access to public services as part of efforts to tackle the growing socio-economic challenges and conflict risks facing Northern border...
INTERPOL seizes $65M in fake drugs, arrests 769 in largest-ever global crackdown
Africanews
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June 26, 2025
INTERPOL has arrested 769 people and seized illegal medicine worth USD 65 million in a global operation against pharmaceutical trafficking, according to an INTERPOL press release published on Thursday, highlighting the alarming scale of global...
The way forward for Sahel states
Tribune Online
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June 23, 2025
By: Bamigboye Abiodun IN recent years, the Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to parts of Chad and Guinea, has witnessed a growing wave of anti-imperialist sentiment expressed through a series of military...
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How India-Ghana ties can guide Delhi’s Africa strategy
Firstpost
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July 4, 2025
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ghana, en route to the Brics summit, stands out as a strategic use of an intercontinental journey. On the return leg, the Prime Minister is also scheduled to visit Namibia. With these visits, the PM will...
ECOWAS is wounded; it is in intensive care unit — Obasanjo
Modern Ghana
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Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has observed that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is battling for survival. He made the remark while delivering a Republic Day lecture in Ghana on...
WAFU B U-20 tournament: Nigeria’s Flying Eagles begin preparations
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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July 3, 2025
As Nigeria’s Flying Eagles return to camp in Abuja, Head Coach Aliyu Zubairu has made it clear that fine-tuning the team’s attack will be a major focus ahead of the WAFU B U-20 Boys Tournament set to kick off in Ghana this July. The tournament,...
Jihadists Kill 28 in Two Raids in Northern Nigeria
The Defense Post
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July 4, 2025
Two unrelated attacks by jihadist groups in northeast and northwestern Nigeria have killed 28 people, the military and residents told AFP on Thursday. At least 11 people were killed on Thursday when jihadists from IS-aligned Islamic State West...
Superintendent Swengbe Leads Public Awareness Drive Amid Growing Concerns Over Burkinabe Cross-Border Farming
GNN Liberia
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July 3, 2025
By Christian Appleton Potupo Joproken, River Gee County – In response to increasing cross-border farming activity involving Burkinabe nationals, Superintendent Mike T. Swengbe has launched a vigorous public awareness campaign in Potupo Joproken,...
James Penrice leaves Hearts in a seven figure transfer to AEK Athens
Edinburgh Evening News
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July 4, 2025
Defender heads to Greece after a productive year in Edinburgh James Penrice has said farewell to Hearts and left the club’s Spanish training camp destined for a £2m transfer to AEK Athens. A deal for the left-back was struck yesterday and he...
Independence & Interdependence
Morocco World News
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July 4, 2025
The Moroccan–American Treaty of Peace and Friendship (The Treaty of Marrakesh) was negotiated and signed in 1786, establishing diplomatic and commercial relations between the United States and Morocco. Unbeknownst to many Americans at the time...
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...