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Samia sets performance benchmark for appointees ahead of October polls
The Citizen
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Dodoma. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has set a high bar for newly appointed government officials, issuing firm and unequivocal directives centred on discipline, inclusivity, and accountability as the country heads towards the October general...
Chris Hedges Report: Francesca Albanese on an Economy of Genocide
Consortium News
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June 27, 2025
In her forthcoming report, U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese will detail how Palestine has been exploited by global capitalism and the role certain corporations have played in the genocide. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report There is...
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Refugees & Asylum: How UK, India Positions Vary
The Asian Age
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June 25, 2025
If Britain really had been “broke” and “broken”, as the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, put it, his government would not have dared to sanction two far-right Israeli politicians over the “repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian...
2 years in: Victoria project gives a hand up to 140 people in Ukraine
Peninsula News Review
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June 28, 2025
As they reflect on two years of work in Ukraine, the folks at the Victoria Hand Project hope to expand to the capital and other parts of the war-torn country. From a small lab at the University of Victoria, the Victoria Hand Project harnesses 3D...
Missed Appointments and Associated Factors Among Children Accessing Anti-Retroviral Therapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Western Uganda
Dove Medical Press
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June 28, 2025
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has been labelled the worst public health crisis in this generation.1 As of February 7, 2022, COVID-19 accounted for 396,254,535 cases and 5,759, 785 deaths globally, with Africa reporting 11,196,707 cases and...
Gaza ceasefire talks intensify as Trump suggests a deal may be within reach
The National News
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Gaza ceasefire talks being held in Cairo have moved up a gear, with US President Donald Trump saying an agreement could be reached within a week and mediator Qatar speaking of a window of opportunity that should be seized. Speaking from the Oval...
NBA Draft: Khaman Maluach's rise from South Sudan refugee to...
Modern Ghana
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Khaman Maluach used to dream the impossible as he walked the dusty streets of Kawempe, a disadvantaged suburb on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala. On Wednesday evening, that dream became a reality as the 18-year-old's name echoed through...
Lazarus Chakwera dares Africa on industrialisation
The Times Group Malawi
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June 28, 2025
By Cathy Maulidi in Abuja, Nigeria President Lazarus Chakwera has challenged African leaders, asserting that for Africa to achieve meaningful development, countries must consider industrialization as a way to go. Speaking at a presidential panel...
Taxed by the Month: When Menses Are a Luxury on Paper
The Reporter Ethiopia
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June 28, 2025
In a cramped corner shop tucked in middle of the Ethiopian capital, Mahder Alebacchew scans the shelves with a familiar sense of dread. The 21-year-old university student has watched the price of sanitary pads climb each month—like clockwork, but...
Trump emboldened to accelerate his agenda after nationwide injunction ruling. Follow live updates.
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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pinned Other news we’re following today: Big Beautiful Bill back on track: After the Senate parliamentarian advised that a Medicaid provider tax overhaul central to Trump’s tax cut and spending bill did not adhere to the chamber’s procedural...
The Latest: Trump emboldened to accelerate his agenda after nationwide injunction ruling
WFTV - Florida
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June 27, 2025
After a divided Supreme Court on Friday ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, President Donald Trump told reporters he'd "promptly file" to advance policies blocked by judges, including birthright...
Jamaica turns to King in fresh push for slavery reparations
The Times
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The Jamaican government will take its fight for slavery reparations to the King as ministers said attempts to seek redress for the past had entered “another phase”. Officials for the Commonwealth realm have submitted three “legal questions” for...
Landmines — Jerry White’s Survivor Corps Mission
ABILITY Magazine
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Circa 2009 During a hike in the hills of Israel, a chance encounter with a landmine left Jerry White with a new view on life. White placed his focus not on what had been taken from him, but on how his personal experience and passion could make the...
In “Art Above Everything,” Stephanie Elizondo Griest Offers a New Kind of Road Manual
INDY Week - North Carolina
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June 27, 2025
“I began taking [the term art monk] more seriously when I entered a stage of total nomadism that was precipitated,” Stephanie Elizondo Griest says, “by the realization that I could either write or I could pay rent—I couldn’t do both.” Griest, a...
From Goma to Cape Town, the young Congolese athlete pedalling for peace
Modern Ghana
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Miguel Masaisai, a 23-year-old athlete from Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo, is cycling 6,000 kilometres from his hometown to Cape Town in South Africa, in a bid to promote peace and unity in his troubled country. He talks to RFI about his...
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FirstUp: Shubhanshu Shukla’s Axiom-4 to reach ISS and the other big news of the day
Firstpost
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June 26, 2025
Today is an exciting day. The Axiom-4 mission, piloted by Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, is expected to dock with the International Space Station. World leaders will also convene in Brussels for the EU summit after the Nato summit. Here’s...
Mchunu’s fertile vision turns cow dung into farming gold
Food For Mzansi
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June 27, 2025
Forget what you think you know about farming. Today’s new-era farmers are rewriting the script. Like Thandiwe Mchunu, founder of TMGG Pty Ltd. When Food For Mzansi asked her what she farms with, she laughed and said: “I’m farming with cow dung.”...
Barbados to host historic GUBA Awards 2025, marking first-ever Caribbean edition
Caribbean National Weekly
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June 26, 2025
For the first time in its history, the acclaimed Grow, Unite, Build Africa (GUBA) Awards will be hosted in the Caribbean, with Barbados proudly announced as the host nation for the 2025 edition, scheduled to take place from November 10 to 12. The...
Liberia Named on Proposed U.S. List of Countries for Third-Country Deportations as Funding is Cut for Global Vaccine Program
Front Page Africa
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June 27, 2025
Immigrants looking out the windows of a plane after arriving in Costa Rica on a deportation flight from the United States in February. Costa Rica took 200 deportees in February, including citizens of China, India and Nepal. Credit: Reuters...
US Supreme Court curbs injunctions that blocked Donald Trump's birthright citizenship plan
Sky News
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June 27, 2025
Donald Trump's administration will be allowed to take steps to implement its proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship in the US following a decision by the Supreme Court. Under the current rules, nearly anyone born on US territory has...