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Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa is affected
The Conversation
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July 2, 2025
A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world’s people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
FG seeks collaboration to avert stranded gas amid infrastructure concerns
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 19, 2025
• Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea to advance Gulf of Guinea gas pipeline project The Federal Government has renewed its call for innovation and regional collaboration to avert the risk of stranded gas in Nigeria as investors raise growing concerns over...
Sierra Leone Stakes Next Oil Frontier Claim
Oil Price
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June 30, 2025
African countries have recently started making more and more headlines with their plans to develop local oil and gas reserves despite strong opposition from foreign environmentalist organisations and international lenders. The latest to join the...
Nine things to know about the 2025 travel ban and new challenges for immigrants in Minnesota
Sahan Journal - Minnesota
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July 1, 2025
Stay informed. Sign up for Sahan Sunday, our weekly newsletter with Minnesota news you need to know. This story is provided to you free of charge. We’re glad you're here! If fair, free journalism matters to you, please support us! On June 5, the...
10 countries with the lowest average IQ in the world- 2025 data
Techpoint Africa
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June 30, 2025
IQ scores are often used as a quick way to measure intelligence, but there’s a lot more behind the numbers than meets the eye. When we talk about countries with the lowest average IQ scores, it’s important to remember that these figures don’t...
Cameroon's Reserves Fuel Nearly Half of CEMAC Imports
Business in Cameroon
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June 17, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon contributes between 40% and 58% annually to the foreign exchange reserves of the six CEMAC countries, according to Gilbert Didier Edoa (photo), Secretary General of Cameroon’s Ministry of Finance. Edoa disclosed...
South Africans jailed in Eq. Guinea return home after pardon
East Coast Radio
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Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, both in their mid-50s, arrived on a chartered flight and were welcomed by Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola, who had been involved in efforts for their release, their families said. The "two innocent South African...
E Guinea’s Golden Swan Sets Benchmark
Business Ghana
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The African Energy Chamber (AEC) (www.EnergyChamber.org) proudly supports the recent visit of Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema to Equatorial Guinea’s Golden Swan industrial complex, marking a defining moment for Africa’s oil and gas sector....
75% of Cameroonians Now on 3G or 4G Networks, ITU Reports
Business in Cameroon
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June 18, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - In its April 2025 report, "State of Digital Development and Trends in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities," the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) revealed that approximately 88% of Cameroon's population was...
Cameroon Beats African Internet Average Despite Broadband Gap
Cameroon Online
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June 16, 2025
Business in Cameroon | Over 40% of Cameroon’s population used the internet individually in 2023, excluding business and collective entity connections. This figure, highlighted in the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) April 2025 report,...
Recycling e-waste an elusive dream
NewsDay Zimbabwe
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THOUSANDS of tonnes of hazardous plastic and electronic waste (e-waste) is routinely dumped on the African shores in countries like Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Angola and Mozambique, before trickling further inland into some of...
Oldest World Leaders in 2025: Is Tinubu on the List?
Pulse
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June 30, 2025
In politics, age can be both a sign of wisdom and a warning of stagnation.Across the globe, a surprising number of world leaders remain in office well into their 80s and even 90s, some clinging to power decades after their first inauguration....
Southern Provinces, Strategic Link between North Africa & Morocco’s African Depth - Laayoune Declaration
Hespress
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June 21, 2025
Participants in the Parliamentary Forum on Economic Cooperation between Morocco and the CEMAC highlighted on Friday in Laayoune, the strategic importance of the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom and the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region as a vital...
Trump's Travel Ban: Perpetuating Discrimination Against African Nations
IOL
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Dr Sizo Nkala|Published 2 hours ago 4min Dr. Sizo Nkala United States President Donald Trump proclaimed on June 4 that he was fully suspending the entry into the US of the citizens of 12 countries namely Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the...
Cabinet yet to finalise data protection bill
Windhoek Observer
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Hertta-Maria Amutenja The ministry of information and communication technology (MICT) has confirmed that the country’s data protection bill is still under review by the cabinet committee for legislation. This comes as the ministry of home affairs,...
Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner in Ghana Presents Letters of Credence in Burkina Faso
Sierraloaded
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June 29, 2025
His Excellency Mohamed Hassan Kaisamba, Sierra Leone’s non-resident Ambassador to Burkina Faso and high commissioner resident in Accra, Ghana, has on Thursday, 26th June 2025, formally presented his Letters of Credence to Captain Ibrahim Traore,...
Ukraine Seeks Auctioneer to Sell Seized Turkish Cargo Ship
The Maritime Executive
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Ukraine’s National Agency for Tracing and Asset Management (ARMA) is calling for proposals to manage the sale of a Turkish cargo ship it seized in 2024 on charges that it looted grain from Crimea. It is the latest step in efforts by Ukraine to...
FDI in Tunisia nears the one-billion-dollar mark
African Manager
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June 21, 2025
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Tunisia increased by 21% in 2024 compared to the previous year, reaching $936 million, according to the latest *World Investment Report published Thursday by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development...
NOV Delegation Joins African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 Amid Artificial Intelligence (AI) Push In African Energy Projects
MENAFN
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June 19, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June 19, 2025/APO Group/ -- A high-level delegation from global energy services company NOV has joined the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies conference – taking...
Yaoundé: Didier Edoa says Cameroon’s reserves fueling half of CEMAC imports
Cameroon Intelligence Report
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June 18, 2025
Cameroon contributes between 40% and 58% annually to the foreign exchange reserves of the six CEMAC countries, according to Gilbert Didier Edoa, Secretary General in the Ministry of Finance. Edoa disclosed this figure on June 17, 2025, at the...