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“Want our son to come back safe and sound”: Family of abducted Indian in Niger appeals for help
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 20, 2025
Ramban (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 20 (ANI): The family of Ranjit Singh, an Indian national abducted in Niger's Dosso region, is pleading for the government's help to bring him back home safely. Ranjit Singh, a resident of Jammu and...
Step inside the world of African masquerade artists with this New Orleans catalog and exhibition
The Advocate - Louisiana
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“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations,” New Orleans Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 264 pages. The New Orleans Museum of Art’s New African Masquerades exhibition, which closes on August 10, is, so far, the...
Ghana ranks among top 6 African economies in Intra-African trade – Afreximbank Report
Joy FM
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June 26, 2025
Ghana accounted for nearly 6 per cent of total intra-African trade in 2024, solidifying its position as one of the continent’s top trading economies. This was revealed in the 2024 Africa Trade Report, released on the sidelines of the 32nd...
'Want Our Son To Come Back Safe & Sound': Family Of Abducted Indian In Niger Appeals To Govt Of India For Help
Free Press Journal
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July 20, 2025
Ramban (J&K): The family of Ranjit Singh, an Indian national abducted in Niger's Dosso region, is pleading for the government's help to bring him back home safely. Ranjit Singh, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, was working at a...
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...
World Bank: Conflict, instability driving extreme poverty in Nigeria and 38 other economies
Nairametrics
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June 27, 2025
The World Bank has raised alarm over the growing impact of conflict and instability on 39 developing economies, including Nigeria, warning that these states are being left behind on key development indicators, with extreme poverty, hunger, and...
The Israel-Iran war highlighted a harsh truth for Canada: Our oil economy has no future
The Globe and Mail
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June 27, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Stability in oil prices despite war in the Middle East has demonstrated that Canada can't bank on the oil and gas industry for its economic future.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press John Rapley is a contributing columnist...
EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Media Team Implodes, WhatsApp Group Disbanded Over Internal Wrangling, Anti-Tinubu Sentiments
Sahara Reporters
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The WhatsApp group of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s media team has been quietly dissolved following internal wrangling fueled by rising anti-Tinubu sentiments—especially from former presidential aide Lauretta Onochie—and deepening factional...
Education Revolution: Namibian President declares free university tuition
Sunday Independent
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June 27, 2025
Tswelopele Makoe|Published 6 minutes ago 6min “WE have heard your cries, the fees have fallen,” announced Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. A mere month into her presidency, the first female president of the sub-Saharan nation made waves...
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...
The world's 10 poorest countries with only one outside of Africa
Daily Express
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July 20, 2025
What determines the world's most poorest counrties isn't "as clear-cut as dollars and cents", as the research authors emphasis. However, according to Concern Worldwide's ranking, nine countries in Africa were among the 10 poorest in the world,...
Fake news!
Searchlight
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June 27, 2025
Dr. Fraser- Point of View Patches’ calypso this year, FAKE NEWS, is especially timely, not only because it reflects the state of things politically in the ‘Silly Season’ here, but it describes much of what had been happening over the past two...
Ghana ranks among top 6 African economies in Intra-African trade
Business Insider Africa
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June 26, 2025
This was revealed in the 2024 Africa Trade Report, released during the 32nd Afreximbank Annual Meetings in Abuja, Nigeria. The figure represents a marginal increase from 2023 and encompasses both exports and imports with other African nations....
Africa’s trade future: From regional roots to global resilience!
The Point
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The global economic landscape presents both challenges and opportunities for Africa, influenced by geopolitical shifts, digital advancements, artificial intelligence (AI), climate resilience efforts, and a push towards economic self-reliance....
2 Indians Killed, One Abducted In Terror Attack In Niger; Indian Mission In Touch With Local Authorities
Free Press Journal
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July 20, 2025
2 Indians Killed, One Abducted In Terror Attack In Niger; Indian Mission In Touch With Local Authorities | File Pic (Representative Image) Niamey [Niger]: In a heinous terror attack, two Indians were killed while one was abducted in the Dosso...
Two Indians killed in Niger terror attack; Indian Mission says, ‘stay vigilant’
Mint
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July 20, 2025
In a brutal terror attack in Niger’s Dosso region, two Indian nationals were killed and one was abducted, according to a statement from the Indian Embassy in Niamey. The embassy is coordinating with local authorities to arrange the repatriation of...
Liberia: Weah Congratulates President Bio on Election as ECOWAS Chair
Front Page Africa
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June 26, 2025
Weah described Bio as “the right man for the moment,” citing his leadership experience and understanding of regional dynamics. MONROVIA — Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has extended congratulations to Sierra Leonean President Julius...
Family of abducted Indian in Niger appeals for his safe return
Awaz The Voice
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July 20, 2025
Ramban The family of Ranjit Singh, an Indian national abducted in Niger's Dosso region, is pleading for the government's help to bring him back home safely. Ranjit Singh, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, was working at a...
Immigration Service intercepts 250 drums of suspected illicit chemicals
Ghana Business News
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July 20, 2025
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has intercepted 250 drums of chemicals suspected to be sodium cyanide along the Black Volta River at the Zukpiri community in the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region. The illicit chemicals were...
Emerging African economies in the global world
Business and Financial Times
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June 25, 2025
By Louis GYIMAH In the mid-2020s, the world economy continues to demonstrate unprecedented complexity, interdependency, and velocity. The fragility of global economic systems was highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent supply chain...