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CAR: Ratification of the Maputo Protocol, an essential step – sustained efforts to guarantee women’s and girls’ rights must follow
Amnesty International
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August 29, 2025
Reacting to the ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, (Maputo Protocol) on 26 August by the Central African authorities, Abdoulaye Diarra, Senior Researcher at Amnesty...
Autocracy in the Horn: Eritrea’s Strongman and His Dangerous Narratives
The Reporter Ethiopia
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August 9, 2025
On July 19, 2025, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki delivered yet another one of his long, ideologically freighted television interviews, part geopolitical treatise, part regional blame game, and all too familiar in its evasiveness. In a...
‘We are not welcome or safe’: Trump administration moves to limit international students’ visa stays
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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If approved, the rule would implement a new fixed time limit on foreign students, who currently can stay for the length of their studies as long as they meet visa requirements. Under the proposed rule, international students who hold F visas could...
How Eritrea’s dams are revitalizing the land
Business Ghana
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In villages across Eritrea’s dry interior, change is quietly flowing. Where seasonal rivers once surged and vanished without trace, hand-built dams now hold back precious water. Irrigation canals feed crops even in dry months. Eritrea, one of the...
Transforming Dust: How Eritrea's Dams Are Revitalizing The Land
MENAFN
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August 4, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) In villages across Eritrea's dry interior, change is quietly flowing. Where seasonal rivers once surged and vanished without trace, hand-built dams now hold back precious water. Irrigation canals feed crops even in dry months....
Entertainment News | 'Sentimental Value' to Open Jakarta World Cinema Festival, Another Cannes Winner 'It Was Just an Accident' to Feature Closing
Latestly
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August 29, 2025
Jakarta [Indonesia], August 29 (ANI): The Jakarta World Cinema (JWC) international film festival will open and close with a brace of Cannes winners, Joachim Trier's 'Sentimental Value' and Jafar Panahi's 'It Was Just an Accident,' reported...
The extortion state: how the EU helps Libya to turn migrants into cash
Le Monde Diplomatique
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September 1, 2025
Incarcerated: Eritrean refugees peer through the only window of a building at the Dhar el-Jebel migrant detention centre, Libya, May 2019 Jérôme Tubiana Jackson left Cameroon in 2020, when he was 16 or 17. He spent two years in Libya and tried to...
Rylan Clark says it is 'absolutely insane' that illegal migrants are put up in four-star hotels - as he thanks legal NHS migrants who helped save his mother's life
Daily Mail
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August 28, 2025
Rylan Clark hit out at undocumented migrants entering Britain during an impassioned speech on This Morning which he accepted was 'going to upset someone'. The ITV presenter praised immigrant doctors and nurses for saving his mother Linda's life in...
In Post-War Ethiopia, Tigray’s Female Veterans Fear Being Forgotten
World Politics Review
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August 28, 2025
A woman walks along a dirt road inside the largest refugee camp in Mekele, capital of Tigray, Ethiopia, July 2, 2024 (Sipa photo by Ximena Borrazas via AP Images). MEKELE, Ethiopia—Lying in a hospital bed, covered in a floral bedspread and...
TIME Announces TIME Africa
Business Ghana
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Today, global media company TIME (https://TIME.com/) announced TIME Africa, a new regional editorial expansion in collaboration with Global Venture Partners (GVP). TIME Africa will launch as a digital and live events platform, bringing TIME’s...
Take Control of Your Cash Flow: Proven Strategies for AR Leaders
CFO Dive
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Washington revives peace push after a year of drift
Africa Confidential
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27 Aug 2025 PREVIEW A three-hour meeting in Zurich between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and United States President Donald Trump’s Senior Africa Advisor Massad Boulos on 11 August was the first sign of serious...
Ending Female Genital Mutilation: A Global Crusade to Protect Girls and Women - Jokpeme Joseph Omode
Alexa.ng
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August 27, 2025
Female Genital Mutilation, the partial or total removal of external female genitalia for non-medical reasons, is deeply rooted in cultural beliefs across Nigeria’s 36 states, particularly in the South-West and South-East, where prevalence reaches...
DC Jazz Fest Hits the Right Notes This Weekend
The Georgetowner - Washington D.C.
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August 28, 2025
Here is a comprehensive list of the DC Jazz Fest Artist Profiles. For more information, visit https://www.dcjazzfest.org/artists. Marcus Miller Multi-hyphenate Marcus Miller, a bassist, composer and media personality, will be one of the featured...
US changes visa rules; stricter regulations for some
Gulf News
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Designated posts for residents The new rules are particularly important for residents of countries where routine visa operations have been suspended or paused. The U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi has been officially designated as a processing post for...
Lib Dem MP slammed for urging terrorism probe into Reform's Zia Yusuf
Middle East Eye
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August 28, 2025
Liberal Democrat MP Mike Martin has been criticised and mocked for urging a terror probe into Zia Yusuf, the head of Reform UK's department of government efficiency. Yusuf said on Wednesday it would be "quite reasonable" to pay the Taliban to take...
Rwanda takes first migrants deported from United States
Al Mayadeen
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August 28, 2025
Rwanda has begun receiving migrants deported from the US under a Trump-brokered deal, continuing its role as a relocation hub after similar agreements with the UK, "Israel", Denmark, and international bodies. Bloomberg on Thursday reported that...
TIME Announces TIME Africa In Partnership With Global Venture Partners
MENAFN
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August 28, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, August 28, 2025/APO Group/ -- Today, global media company TIME ( ) announced TIME Africa , a new regional editorial expansion in collaboration with Global Venture Partners (GVP)....
Ethiopia Crisis 2025 Who Is To Blame From Mengistu to Abiy Ahmed
Zehabesha
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August 27, 2025
The altered photo shows former PM of Ethiopia Meles Zenawi, ex-president Mengistu Haile Mariam, and PM Abiy standing holding hands.- Hawi Tollera Many Ethiopians ask: what caused the current turmoil in Ethiopia? Did it begin under Mengistu Haile...
Russia on US blacklist must be mistake, says Orthodox leader
Christian Network Europe
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“Baptists, Adventists and Evangelicals are all guilty of destroying the spiritual unity of the Russian people. Therefore, they should be banned.” That statement was made by an FSB agent in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar. The security...