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2025 Top Agri-Food Pioneers Announced: 39 Changemakers from 27 Countries Forging a New Future for Food
AgriBusiness Global
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June 24, 2025
From Australia to Zimbabwe, 39 visionary scientists, farmers, policy advisors, entrepreneurs and humanitarians have been named to the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP) list, announced today by the World Food Prize Foundation. Now in its second...
Service Above Self: Reaching across the globe
Medicine Hat News
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June 25, 2025
By Kitt Brand on June 25, 2025. Yep. It’s true, there are some pretty well-known folks who are or were active Rotarians. A few that come to mind: Neil Armstrong, whose foot was the first on the moon; Friedrich Bergius, German Nobel Prize winner;...
ECOWAS Authority Appreciate Gambia Gov’t Efforts in Creating Budget Line for SSR
The Voice Gambia
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June 25, 2025
By: Lamin B. Darboe The Sixty-seventh Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS on 22 June 2025 in Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, under the chairmanship of H.E. Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR), President of the...
UPSC Current Affairs Pointers of the past week | June 16 to June 22, 2025
The Indian Express
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June 23, 2025
Every Monday, we bring you UPSC Current Affairs Pointers—a concise, exam-focused guide to help you stay ahead in your Prelims and Mains preparation. Report (FYI: The data provided in these reports can be used to substantiate your Mains answer and...
SSP Diaries | Cessation of ticketing for running lights a logical decision
The Gleaner
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June 26, 2025
RECENTLY THE commissioner of police made a most welcome and logical public announcement, namely the cessation of ticketing motorists for running lights that are permanently on, day or night. An increasing number of motor vehicles over the last...
Who are JNIM, the jihadist ‘ghost enemy’ gaining momentum in the Sahel?
The Guardian
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June 25, 2025
The scene is wearily familiar. It is dusk at a ramshackle military outpost, surrounded by miles of scrubby desert or on the outskirts of a major town. Suddenly, there is the sound of automatic rifle fire, and hundreds of men arriving on...
United Capital: Expanding to Unlock Shared Prosperity Across West Africa
This Day
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June 23, 2025
With the launch of its West Africa office in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, United Capital Plc has become the bridge between Anglophone and Francophone Africa that will unlock shared prosperity across the region through innovation in wealth management,...
Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Intercept
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Trump administration could resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own without any chance to object on the grounds that they might be tortured. This may clear a legal path for the...
UN nuclear watchdog board censures Iran, which retaliates by announcing a new enrichment site
Akron Legal News
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STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Published: June 25, 2025 VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear watchdog's board of governors formally found that Iran isn't complying with its nuclear obligations for the first time in 20 years, a...
The Ones to Watch at Paris Men’s Fashion Week Spring 2026
WWD - New York
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June 25, 2025
PARIS — Showing how perfect the imperfection of handwork and process can be, a laboratory to showcase Brazil’s vibrant culture and a creative potential that’s not fully tapped yet, a designer’s love for textile and a multihyphenate creative’s...
What we’re watching: Weekly disaster update, June 23
Center for Disaster Philanthropy
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June 23, 2025
We know all too well that disaster can strike anytime, anywhere in the world. Some disasters make headlines; others do not. Here at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP), we monitor the status of disasters worldwide and compile a list of the...
Study highlights high antimicrobial resistance rates, limited data, in African countries
CIDRAP
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June 25, 2025
A study of antimicrobial susceptibility data from African countries shows high levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in critical and high-priority bacteria, with substantial variations observed across countries. The study, published yesterday...
Strategic Benefits Of Wa Airport Goldstar Air Will Unleash To Transform The Upper West Region Into An Agrarian City
News Ghana
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June 23, 2025
International airline Goldstar Air, a private Ghanaian and United States registered company with an issued Air Carrier Licence (ACL/N-SCH No. 0239) from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority to operate passenger and cargo flights across West Africa...
Ranked: The 50 Poorest Countries by GDP Per Capita in 2025
Visual Capitalist
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June 24, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Ranked: The 50 Poorest Countries by GDP Per Capita in 2025 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible...
Real's Ronaldo out with ankle injury
The National News
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MADRID // The Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo will be out of action for around three weeks with a bruised right ankle, the Spanish club said on their website today. The world's most expensive player suffered the injury during Real's La Liga...
Inside 4 countries on the Foreign Office's 'do not travel list'
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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June 24, 2025
The Government's Foreign Office registers daily updates on ongoing security concerns across the world With summer now here, many Brits will be jetting off to various distant destinations in hopes of an enjoyable holiday. However, some countries...
Egypt faces prospect of Iran defeat further empowering Israel
The National News
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Egypt has been sharply critical of Israel over its war on Iran, a stand rooted in part in Cairo’s concern that a defeated, or significantly weakened, Tehran would allow its one-time foe to project its power more emphatically across the Middle...
Nigerian Senate becoming less democratic, merely approving executive – Ali Ndume
Nigerian Eye
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June 25, 2025
The lawmaker representing Borno South South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, has lamented what he called the diminishing role of the National Assembly. This was as he alleged that the red chamber of the country’s National Assembly has become an...
Ukraine counters Russia's Africa influence with military training offer in West Africa
Business Insider Africa
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June 25, 2025
The initiative reflects Kyiv’s evolving foreign policy, which now extends beyond Europe into African geopolitics, as the war with Russia takes on a more global dimension. Speaking to Reuters, Maksym Subkh, Ukraine’s Special Representative for the...
New drive to boost food security
The Standard
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Friendly woman harvesting fresh tomatoes from a greenhouse garden. [iStockphoto] AWARD Launches Gender in Agrifood Systems Policies (GASP) Program to Drive Inclusive Agricultural Development in Africa. Nairobi, Kenya – June 23, 2025 — African...