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Democracy Dominoes: When neighbours fall, who stands last? – IMANI
3News.com
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June 19, 2025
In an increasingly precarious West African neighbourhood, Ghana appears outwardly calm—but the tremors at its borders raise urgent questions. Military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have overthrown constitutions with ease, while civilian...
11 IAEA BoG members condemn Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites
Tehran Times
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June 16, 2025
TEHRAN – Eleven member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) Board of Governors have issued a joint statement condemning the Israeli regime’s military attack on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities and urged immediate action by...
Trump Administration To Expand Travel Ban to 36 More Nations, Citing Security and Fraud Concerns
[your]NEWS
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June 16, 2025
Dozens of countries face new U.S. travel restrictions amid heightened scrutiny over identity documents, visa overstays, and national security risks. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom The Trump administration will extend its travel ban to an additional 36...
2027: Forget re-election if you can’t address hunger, Ohanaeze tells Tinubu
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 26, 2025
Igbo apex group, Ohanaeze, on Thursday, informed President Ahmed Tinubu to forget his Presidential second tenure ambition if he fails to address the economic hardship facing the country, saying that Nigerians are wiser now. In a statement in...
Joe Rothwell is ready made Rangers winner as Russell Martin steps up chase for three more targets
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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July 2, 2025
Russell Martin insists he’s lured a ready-made winner to Ibrox after being reunited with Joe Rothwell. The Rangers boss has fought off competition from Spain to land the Bournemouth midfielder on a three-year deal. Martin knows Rothwell well...
Somalia’s biometric border overhaul signals deeper US engagement
Biometric Update
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July 2, 2025
In a move hailed as both technologically significant and strategically vital, Somalia formally launched the Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System (PISCES) at key border control points across the country. Backed by the...
Senegal Introduces Hexavalent Vaccine Into Its National Immunization Programme
MENAFN
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July 2, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo On July 1, 2025, Senegal officially launched the introduction of the hexavalent vaccine into its Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). Following in Mauritania's footsteps, Senegal is part of...
Democracy Is Not Dead – But It Must Be Reborn
Africa.com
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July 1, 2025
Democracy is in retreat. Across continents, long-standing institutions are crumbling, civic freedoms are under siege, and autocrats are rewriting the rules of engagement. In country after country, from Hungary to Myanmar, the United Staes to Sudan...
MARGINALIA: Excavating Words, Remembering Selves
Minda News
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July 2, 2025
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 2 July) — (Prologue of my upcoming book, Mansoor Limba, Marginalia of Story, Struggle, and the Sacred: My Personal Reflections. ElziStyle Bookshop, 2025, 6 x 9 in. Paperback (Philippines):...
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...
When AI goes wrong
The National News
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The AI incidents database is a community and open-source project dedicated to documenting the harm caused by artificial intelligence systems. The project began in early 2019, as indicated by the first entry in the GitHub repository. It has...
Insecurity, hunger may sack you in 2027 – Ohanaeze warns Tinubu
Daily Post
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June 26, 2025
The apex lgbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, says President Bola Tinubu may face an uphill battle in the 2027 elections, if he continues to disregard the pressing issues of extreme poverty, hardship and escalating threat of...
Record 769 arrests and USD 65 million in illicit pharmaceuticals seized in global bust
International Criminal Police Organization
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SINGAPORE – An INTERPOL-coordinated operation across 90 countries has resulted in the seizure of 50.4 million doses of illicit pharmaceuticals worth USD 65 million, highlighting the alarming scale of the global trade in unapproved and counterfeit...
US sponsoring of war against Iran condemned – NUMSA
Politicsweb
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Tuesday, 01 July 2025 01/07/25 POLITICS US sponsoring of war against Iran condemned – NUMSA Irvin Jim | 30 June 2025 Union condemns both Apartheid Israel and the U.S. for deliberately attempting to destabilize the region NUMSA statement on the US...
Cumbrian group raises thousands for disaster relief with annual swimathon
The Westmorland Gazette
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The Grange Soroptimists is part of the global women’s service organisation Soroptimist International, have supported ShelterBox for more than 15 years, raising funds each year through the Kendal Rotary Club’s annual swimathon. Isabel Huggett, a...
US government explains inclusion of Ghana on 36 country visa ban
Ghana Business News
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June 26, 2025
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa – Minister of Foreign Affairs The United States authorities have given in detail reasons for including Ghana on a list of additional 36 countries banned from travelling to the US. A report by the Washington Post citing an...
Jihadists wage string of attacks on Mali military sites
Modern Ghana
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Jihadists waged attacks on military installations in several western Mali towns Tuesday, in a new series of assaults in the junta-led country amid resurging violence in the wider Sahel region. For more than a decade Mali has faced assaults from...
ECOWAS, Sahel states seal deal to collectively confront terrorism
News Diary Online
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June 19, 2025
By Mark Longyen The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it has secured an understanding with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to collectively confront terrorism and violent extremism in the subregion. The President of the ECOWAS...
ICE arrests and deportations in Iowa are way up under Trump, data says
Des Moines Register - Iowa
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ICE arrests and deportations in Iowa this year have already exceeded last year's totals. Those arrested and deported have primarily been men, young adults and citizens of Mexico or central American countries. The length of time between an arrest...
The Danger of African Industrialization
Modern Ghana
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Machines, Robots, and AI are intended to make the lives of humans more comfortable and reach beyond imagination. Buses, taxis, medicine delivery, etc. make less qualified workers unemployed over time. The service industry is booming yet on average...