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How 'blood gold' is fuelling conflict in West Africa
BBC
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July 1, 2025
Jacob BoswallBBC Monitoring ShareSave It has been a good year for gold. A host of turbulent events in the global economy has driven up prices for the glittery commodity to record highs in 2025. In a world of tariffs and international conflict,...
Iran suspends cooperation with IAEA following anti-Tehran resolution
News.Az
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has officially announced the suspension of Tehran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), escalating tensions with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog following a contentious...
One-Day Prevalence of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase (ESBL) and Carbapenemase-Producing Bacteria in Fecal Samples from Surgical Patients: A Concerning Trend of Antibiotic Resistance
Dove Medical Press
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July 4, 2025
Introduction Antimicrobial resistance has become a global concern, posing significant challenges in the treatment of infectious diseases.1 Beta-lactam antibiotics, including penicillins, cephalosporins, carbapenems, and aztreonam, are commonly...
Why Wagner’s exit poses grave consequences for Mali — Ex diplomat
Daily Trust
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July 4, 2025
The recent announcement by Russia’s Wagner mercenary group of its withdrawal from Mali has ignited fresh concerns about security, sovereignty, and humanitarian access across West Africa. The paramilitary force announced the move on June 6,...
Nigerian journalists are familiar with threats. Now, they face growing online attacks
The Cable
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June 29, 2025
Days after Samad Uthman, a Nigerian journalist, published an exposé on misinformation trends that are driving the online propaganda for Burkina Faso’s junta leader Ibrahim Traore, the deluge of attacks he faced on social media platforms was...
Mali military chief granted renewable five-year presidential term
Al Jazeera
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July 4, 2025
Mali’s military authorities have granted coup leader Assimi Goita a five-year presidential mandate, renewable “as many times as necessary” and without requiring an election. The country’s transitional parliament approved the move on Thursday,...
The Hague Group revives the possibility of a new internationalism
Mail & Guardian
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July 3, 2025
A vigil remembering journalists killed in Palestine held at St.Georges Cathedral in Cape Town on 28 January 2024. Photo by Leanne Brady Imperialism is on a genocidal offensive in Gaza, and has recently bombed its way through Syria, Yemen, Lebanon...
Morocco Gambles on Atlantic Gateway To Woo Sahel Allies
Media Line
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June 29, 2025
Morocco is betting big on a bold vision: opening the Atlantic to the Sahel. King Mohammed VI’s “Atlantic Initiative,” announced in late 2023, aims to give Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger direct access to the ocean through a massive new $1.3 billion...
Great Green Wall: Upaya bersama Afrika menghijaukan kembali Sahel dan melawan degradasi lahan
Forests News
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July 4, 2025
Mulai dari makanan berbahan dasar tanaman lokal yang sebelumnya kurang dimanfaatkan, tas tangan dari rumput liar, hingga alat sederhana seperti tali untuk mencegah kebakaran hutan, beragam inovasi yang lahir dari komunitas kini mengubah cara...
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...
World AFP Morocco's Atlantic gambit: linking restive Sahel to ocean
Yahoo News
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A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to tackle regional instability and consolidate its grip on disputed Western Sahara. The "Atlantic Initiative" promises ocean...
Morocco's Atlantic Gambit: Linking Restive Sahel To Ocean
International Business Times
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June 29, 2025
A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to tackle regional instability and consolidate its grip on disputed Western Sahara. The "Atlantic Initiative" promises ocean...
Ghana’s gold exports surge
Zawya
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Ghana is capitalising on its gold exports to drive economic growth, with revenues increasing to $11.6bn in 2024 - a 52.6% increase from the $7.6bn recorded in 2023. Gold exports accounted for 57% of the country’s total export revenue, solidifying...
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...
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...
Thelo Aasgaard to Rangers transfer timeline as the exact fee Luton will receive revealed
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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July 4, 2025
Rangers expect to secure the £3million signing of Thelo Aasgaard from Luton Town on a four-year deal in the next 24 hours. Record Sport understands the Norwegian completed part of his medical in England on Friday before making his way to Glasgow...
How far Nigeria don reach to change Donald Trump ban bifor di 60 days deadline?
GhanaWeb
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July 1, 2025
Recently, President Donald Trump administration don announce say dem go soon enforce rules wey go block citizens from Nigeria, Ghana and 34 oda nations from entering di United States, even if dem get valid visa or to stay back afta di 60 days...
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...
Mali govt approves five more years in power for military leader Goita
TVC News Nigeria
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July 4, 2025
General Assimi Goïta, Mali’s military leader, has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, renewable without elections. The junta commander, who has seized power twice, pledged to restore democracy last year, but...
RFK Jr. singled out one study to cut funds for global vaccines. Is that study valid?
WKYU - Kentucky
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July 1, 2025
Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a pronouncement that stunned the global health world. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — which has vaccinated more than half the world's children in many of the world's...