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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...
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...
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...
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...
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."...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Chinese Demand for Donkey Skins Depletes Valuable African Animal
Africa Defense Forum
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June 24, 2025
Ejiao is considered a miracle elixir for those who use it. However, it has become a disaster for Africa’s donkeys and the communities that rely on them. The Chinese demand for donkey skins and meat fuels a black market in several African...
Barminco secures $130m mining contract from Westgold Resources in Australia
Mining Technology
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June 26, 2025
Perenti has announced that its underground mining division, Barminco, has secured a A$200m ($130m) contract with Westgold Resources to deliver underground mining services at the Great Fingall project in Western Australia. The Great Fingall project...
Laughing in the face of helplessness: The Gold Rush celebrates a century of defiance
Paste
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On June 26, 1925, eager moviegoers and Hollywood insiders filed into Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, California to watch Charlie Chaplin‘s latest silent picture, The Gold Rush. The premiere included an extravagant prelude orchestrated...
The United States of Africa: African Unity in Ouagadougou
Modern Ghana
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The following is a sample chapter from my novel The United States of Africa. “I propose to show how in practice African Unity, which in itself can only be established by the defeat of neocolonialism, could immensely raise African living...
Nigeria, DRC lead global ranking of countries with most people without electricity access
Business Insider Africa
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June 26, 2025
New data from the World Bank report titled Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025, shows that a majority of the countries with the highest electricity deficits are in sub-Saharan Africa, further emphasizing the continent’s persistent...
Democracy Dividends, GDP Growth, Poverty, And Insecurity In Nigeria (2)
Daily Independent
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June 19, 2025
1 After twenty-six years of unbroken democratic practice in Nigeria (1999 to date), the masses had hoped that by now they would be reaping the dividends of democracy—envisioned as the alleviation of poverty and the elevation of prosperity. But to...
South Africa Faces a Diplomatic Tightrope on Iran
Foreign Policy
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Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: South Africa treads a fine diplomatic line after the United States strikes Iran, Nigeria faces a Boko Haram resurgence in its northeast, and Egypt imposes electricity rationing...
Agricultural recovery: Hope in Southern Africa’s post-drought revival
Public Eye
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June 25, 2025
As Africa grapples with escalating hunger crises, new report sounds the alarm TEBOHO KHATEBE MOLEFI MASERU – In a promising turn for Southern Africa, Lesotho has been removed from the UN’s Hunger Hotspots list, marking a significant milestone in...
Watch as Onana plays as a striker in hometown street game
GhanaWeb
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June 26, 2025
Manchester United goalkeeper André Onana has gone viral for swapping his usual spot between the sticks for a striker’s role in a street football match in Cameroon. In a widely circulated video online, the 29-year-old was seen playing casually with...
Global Childhood Vaccination Uptake Stalls
Technology Networks
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The world has made unprecedented progress in vaccinating children against life-threatening disease since WHO established the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974. Despite the progress of the past 50 years, the last two decades have...