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Menstrual Hygiene in Ghana: Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Practice
News Ghana
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June 17, 2025
For Poka Health App – the preferred period tracker and women’s health app for African Women, with funding from Standard Chartered Bank through the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre. For many women and girls in Ghana, menstruation is still...
The U.S. Is Making Prison Deals in Other Countries
Esquire
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June 26, 2025
Is it possible for a nation of Reichstags to develop a world full of gulags, or does that stretch historical analogies beyond the breaking point? Let’s let the Intercept settle this question. An Intercept investigation finds that the Trump...
Vista Bank taps SBS to modernise Core Banking, expand microfinance in Africa
IBS Intelligence
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By Vriti Gothi Today Africa Core Banking Digital Payments Vista Bank has strengthened its business development by selecting SBS as its partner for banking software. SBS, a global FinTech, announced in April that it would extend its SBP Core...
Carlos Alcaraz faces tricky opener in Wimbledon title defence
The National News
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Carlos Alcaraz will start his Wimbledon defence against the dangerous Fabio Fognini while world number one Jannik Sinner faces a potential semi-final clash against Novak Djokovic following Friday's draw. On the women's side, reigning champion...
EFSCRJ raises concerns over the 67th ordinary session of Ecowas
The Standard Gambia
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June 26, 2025
- Advertisement - By Madi Jobarteh The Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice hereby expresses its deep concern at the outcome of the 67th ordinary session of Ecowas leaders held on 22 June 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria. After reviewing the...
US Threatens to Add 36 More Countries to Controversial Travel Ban List
Morocco World News
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June 18, 2025
Rabat – US President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policies continue as his administration is planning to add 36 countries to the travel ban list. This means that citizens from 36 additional countries will be banned from entering the...
Togo suspends French broadcasters, RFI and France 24 for repeated biased reporting
Zambian Observer
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June 18, 2025
Togo has taken a significant step towards regulating their media by handing two French firms suspension. The Togolese media regulator, the High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC), suspended French broadcasters RFI (Radio France...
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...
Reform is not a command: Why resistance in The Gambia tells us more than we think
The Standard Gambia
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June 26, 2025
- Advertisement - By Dr Lamin K Janneh Since 2016, “reform” has become one of the most repeated words in Gambian public life. From security to civil service, from decentralisation to digitisation, almost every national conversation begins or ends...
African countries involved in five or more external conflicts
Business Insider Africa
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June 27, 2025
Countries such as the United States, Russia, Iran, and France posted some of the highest scores on this indicator. In total, 44 countries saw their scores worsen in this area, with four of the ten steepest declines occurring in sub-Saharan Africa....
Full list of the countries where rabies is 'high risk' after UK tourist dies
Manchester Evening News
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June 18, 2025
A woman has tragically died in the UK after becoming infected with rabies in Morocco. She is said to have contracted the fatal viral disease while coming into contact with a stray dog during a visit to Morocco, the UK Health and Security Agency...
Ghana lost $11bn due to gold smuggling – Swissaid report
Mining Technology
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June 17, 2025
Ghana’s gold sector has revealed a substantial trade gap that has led to an estimated loss of $11bn (112.99bn cedis) due to smuggling activities, reported Reuters, citing a Swissaid report. Most of the smuggled gold is believed to be flowing into...
Immigration: 36 countries threatened with exclusion by Trump, is Tunisia in the crosshairs?
Tunisie Numerique
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June 18, 2025
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump, whose influence continues to shape current policy, has officially warned 36 countries—25 of them located in Africa—giving them a 60-day deadline to...
Friday Sermon – Khilafat: The promise, the blessing, the salvation (30 May 2025)
Al Hakam
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June 27, 2025
Friday Sermon 30 May 2025 Khilafat: The promise, the blessing, the salvation After reciting the tashahhud, ta’awwuz and Surah al-Fatihah, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih Vaa recited verses 54-57 of Surah an-Nur: وَأَقۡسَمُواْ بِٱللَّهِ جَهۡدَ...
Mali begins building Russian-backed gold refinery
BBC
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Mali's military junta has started building a gold refinery in partnership with a Russian conglomerate, the Yadran Group. The project would embody the West African nation's assertion of its "economic sovereignty", and ensure the nation benefited...
The African Initiative: Russian-backed outlet peddles propaganda to buy influence in Africa
Euronews
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Published on 18/06/2025 - 12:51 GMT+2•Updated 12:54 The African Initiative presents itself as a Moscow-based news agency that covers events across the continent, aiming to "mutually expand the knowledge of Russians and Africans about each other."...
Ghana needs to go back to General Acheampong’s polices - Pro...
Modern Ghana
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The CEO of the J.A. Kufour Foundation, Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah has called on Ghanaian leaders to bring back some of the key policies of General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong that were very beneficial to Ghana’s economy. Prof. Agyeman-Duah made these...
Buffer Stock Company board inaugurated in Accra
Ghanaian Times
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June 17, 2025
A nine-member board of directors of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), was inaugurated in Accra yesterday by Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mr Eric Opoku, with a call on members to champion national food security and ensure price...
Togo suspends French broadcasters for three months
eNCA
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LOME - Togo suspended French broadcasters RFI and France 24 for three months, the country's media regulator said, accusing both of transmitting "inexact and tendentious" content. The temporary ban further reduces the two French public...
Nigeria Unveils New Kits, Squad For 2025 Rugby Africa Men’s Sevens Series
Naija News
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June 18, 2025
The series is set to take place at the Labourdonnais Sports Club in Mauritius from June 21 to 22. The stylish new kits, manufactured by British sportswear brand Umbro, were revealed via the federation’s official 𝕏 account. “Big news! Umbro has...