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OseI Boateng, Founder & Executive Director, OKB Hope Foundation, announced as the Global Citizen Waislitz Grand Prize Award Winner

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Hunan Province, in central China, has emerged as the country’s strategic hub for expanding trade with Africa. Tasked by the Chinese central government and the

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PROTEC (Programme for Technological Careers) proudly announces the one-year anniversary of its impactful partnership with Ardagh Glass Packaging - South

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[Shabelle] Lampedusa, Italy -- At least 20 people, including Somalis, have died after two migrant boats capsized in the Mediterranean Sea near the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday, local authorities said.

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[GroundUp] Dozens of families affected by floods in January are still without shelter. The KZN human settlements department fails to answer our questions

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The national television broadcast photos of 11 people it said were members of the group that planned the coup. The security minister also identified the two Malian generals he said were part of the plot

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The French national is accused of working "on behalf of the French intelligence service" in Mali.

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In Congo's Kivu alone, health workers treated more than 17,000 victims of sexual violence over just five months last year, according to the report, as battles between Congolese forces and M23 rebels intensified

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Africa's mineral wealth—vital for the global green transition—remains paradoxical: while the continent supplies 30% of the world's critical minerals, its

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Nigeria’s non-oil exports surged to $3.23 billion in the first half of 2025, a 19.6% jump from last year, according to the Nigerian Export Promotion

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Ghana and South Korea gained independence around the same time, yet their economic paths diverged sharply—South Korea now enjoys incomes nearly nine

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[African Arguments] The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation - Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) and African Arguments - Debating Ideas. Through a number of themes that explore the intersections of war, displacement, identities and capital, Sudanese researchers, many of whom are themselves displaced, highlight their own experiences, the unique dynamisms within the larger communities affected by war, and readings of

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Edgar Lungu, who died in June, is yet to be buried - the debate over what next exposes deep divisions.

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South Africa is in the grip of a chronic health crisis – and the numbers don’t lie. The country’s rate of chronic diseases (disease burden) far outpaces

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Women’s Day marks the anniversary of the 1956 adoption of the Personal Status Code which granted women equal rights.

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Reconstruction work is underway at the facility after the army recaptured it in March amid the ongoing civil war.

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[African Development Bank (AfDB)] Africa50, the investment platform established by African governments and the African Development Bank, said on Wednesday it has surpassed $1.4 billion in managed assets, marking an extraordinary transformation from one staff member to a continental powerhouse driving Africa's infrastructure revolution.

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[African Development Bank (AfDB)] While economic attention in West Africa is often directed toward larger economies, Benin is emerging and proving itself as one of the most prosperous economies in the region, thanks to agricultural modernization and digital innovation.

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[African Development Bank (AfDB)] Ethiopia's ambition to build a new international airport that will rival some of the world's biggest, took off on Monday with a monumental signing ceremony marking the African Development Bank's role as the initial mandated lead arranger, global coordinator and book runner to mobilize nearly $8 billion of the $10 billion needed for the mega project.

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[African Development Bank (AfDB)] Africa's financial sector has taken a major step toward aligning with global climate and sustainability goals with the validation of a continent-wide Sustainable Finance Taxonomy. The groundbreaking framework, the first of its kind for Africa, was endorsed by regulators, commercial banks, insurance firms, and development finance institutions in Nairobi on July 16-17.

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Teams remain on high alert to prevent the flames from spreading further as the country braces for continued high fire risk.