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Togo’s political crisis risks spilling over into West Africa – Security Analyst warns
Joy FM
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June 30, 2025
Since August, Togo's opposition has organised regular protests against demanding the departure of embattled President Faure Gnassingbe, whose family has ruled this west African nation for five decades. By MATTEO FRASCHINI KOFFI (AFP/File) Togo’s...
Discourse on French Colonialism in the 21st Century
Africa is a country
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Martinican author Aimé Césaire—long revered as one of the early founders of France’s Négritude movement, cultivating Black consciousness alongside Léopold Senghor and the Nardal sisters—has long been canonized in historical memory as one of the...
As donkeys disappear, African leaders push to protect silent lifeline
TUKO
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June 27, 2025
African leaders and scientists gathered in Abidjan this week to confront the crisis of mass donkey slaughter driven by global demand AU-IBAR launched a Pan-African Donkey Strategy, warning that unregulated trade risks wiping out donkeys vital to...
Group to Governors: Account for security votes spending, invite EFCC, ICPC
Eagle Online
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June 29, 2025
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to Nigeria’s 36 state governors urging them to “promptly account for the spending of public funds in the name of ‘security votes’ by your...
SPECIAL REPORT: Farmers feeling the brunt as kidnappers lay siege to Kwara communities
Premium Times
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June 29, 2025
The folks of Igbaja in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State remember 28 September 2024 as a sad day in their community’s history. In the evening of that Sunday, Lukman Balogun, the head of the local vigilantes and a major traditional...
Interview – Olukayode Bakare
E-International Relations
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June 28, 2025
Dr. Olukayode Bakare is an esteemed scholar specializing in international relations and sub-Saharan African politics. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and has held teaching and research positions...
Ranked: Countries With the Fewest Seniors, by Population Share
Visual Capitalist
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June 29, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Ranked: Countries With the Fewest Seniors, by Population Share This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover...
Fake, AI-generated videos about the Diddy trial are raking in millions of views on YouTube
The Guardian
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June 29, 2025
This story was reported by Indicator, a publication that investigates digital deception, and co-published with the Guardian. Dozens of YouTube channels are mixing AI-generated images and videos with false claims about Sean “Diddy” Combs’s...
Delinquency, Inc.: How crime is infiltrating the global economy
El País
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June 29, 2025
The tentacles of organized crime reach across the globe, strengthened by growing armed conflicts, various crises and a worldwide panorama that has put democracies under pressure. No country is immune; in fact, according to the Global Initiative...
In FOI requests, SERAP tells governors to account for security votes
Premium Times
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June 29, 2025
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to Nigeria’s 36 state governors urging them to “promptly account for the spending of public funds in the name of ‘security votes’ by your...
Insecurity: SERAP Gives 36 State Governors Seven Days To Account For Security Votes
The Will
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June 29, (THEWILL) — The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Nigeria’s 36 state governors to within seven days, “promptly account for the spending of public funds in the name of security votes” since 29th May 2023...
‘account For Security Votes Spending, Invite Efcc, Icpc’, Serap Tells 3
The Nigerian Voice
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to Nigeria’s 36 state governors urging them to “promptly account for thespending of public funds in the name of ‘security votes’ by your states...
Unfinished Freedom: Africa’s Long Walk Beyond the 1884 Berlin Conference:
IOL
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By Mphumzi Mdekazi On June 12, 2025, we gathered at Vaal University of Technology (VUT) not just to honour the towering legacy of Walter Sisulu, whose birthday was on May 18, 1912– a revolutionary, a father of our democracy, and a quiet architect...
Religious, political leaders have failed Nigeria – Bishop Okonkwo
The Sun Nigeria
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June 28, 2025
Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Mike Okonkwo, has expressed disappointment at the socio-political, economic and security situation in Nigeria, blaming it largely on the failure of both political and religious leaders...
How Tinubu’s foreign policy benefits the common man, By Ademola Oshodi
Premium Times
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June 28, 2025
Presidents Tinubu and Macron in Paris. Some may ask: What is Tinubu’s foreign policy really about? It is about results. Nigerians are seeing cheaper food, more stable currency, safer borders, and new jobs. These diplomatic missions have yielded...
ECOWAS charts path to economic growth, others
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 20, 2025
Critical issues relating to economic integration, infrastructure development, health, education and agriculture are some of the issues topping agenda at the opening of the 94th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers in Abuja...
Nigeria, Neighbours Rank Among World’s Poorest Nations By GDP Per Capita
New Telegraph
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June 28, 2025
Despite being Africa’s most populous nation and one of its largest economies, Nigeria remains among the world’s poorest countries in 2025 when measured by GDP per capita, according to newly released data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF),...
AU-IBAR Calls for unified African Ban on Donkey Skin Trade
Capital FM Kenya
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June 27, 2025
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Jun 27 – With Africa’s donkey population in steep decline, leaders, scientists, and policymakers meeting in Abidjan have sounded the alarm—calling for an urgent and coordinated policy response to halt the ongoing slaughter...
Ranked: Countries With the Most Children in 2025
Visual Capitalist
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June 28, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Ranked: Countries With the Most Children in 2025 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven...
Groundbreaking study maps the African gut microbiome across urban and rural communities
Africanews
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June 27, 2025
While most gut microbiome research focuses on high-income countries, a groundbreaking study led by two South African scientists is shifting that narrative. Dr. Luicer Anne Ingasia Olubayo and Professor Scott Hazelhurst from the University of the...