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Ethiopia to Inaugurate Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in 2025: Africa's Largest Hydroelectric Power Project
International Business Times - United Kingdom
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August 2, 2025
Ethiopia is preparing to inaugurate the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in September 2025. The construction of the Dam was inspired by the lesson Ethiopians took from the devastated famine in 1984 and the resolve to improve the people of...
Land Grabs Threaten Peace in Somaliland
IOL
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Ali-Guban Mohamed|Published 48 minutes ago 5min Recently, the new Somaliland administration has signed a $100 million agriculture project agreement to boost agriculture and food security with US based African Food Security (AFS) at QolCadey...
Centre scrambles to revamp export plan as US tariffs hit India, favour ASEAN
Mint
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August 2, 2025
The development comes on the back of a deadlock in bilateral trade agreement (BTA) negotiations between India and the US, which the two countries have been grappling with since June, as reported by Mint on 11 June. The new plan involves...
Italian Colonialism (1887-1896): The rise and fall of Shoan and Tigrayan Politics
Awate
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August 1, 2025
Italian strategies of colonialism in Ethiopia, 1887 to 1896: The rise and the fall of “la politica scioana” and “la politica tigrina.” Background Italy emerged as a colonial power in 1882 when it formally took over Assab from Rubbatino, a private...
Africa and the Curse of Sit-tight Leaders
This Day
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August 2, 2025
Obinna Chima Africa’s leadership landscape is littered with broken promises, twisted constitutions, and battered democracies, mainly due to sit-tight syndrome. Across the continent, a growing number of leaders seemS unwilling to relinquish power,...
Five things Friday roundup: Dealing with “good” challenges in the MKC
Anabaptist World
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August 1, 2025
Throughout the centuries, the church of Jesus Christ has faced numerous challenges in a world often opposed to the Christian faith. In Ethiopia, the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) endured a decade of persecution under a socialist regime in the...
Gateways to the Red Sea: The case for Israel–Somaliland normalization
Atlantic Council
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July 31, 2025
MENASource July 31, 2025 • 1:52 pm ET Print this page Gateways to the Red Sea: The case for Israel–Somaliland normalization By Amit Yarom Often described as a rare island of stability amid regional fragility, Somaliland is increasingly attracting...
E dey legal for US to deport foreign criminals come Africa?
GhanaWeb
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August 1, 2025
United States goment don turn Africa to dia new backyard wia dem dey deport migrants wey dem say be convicted criminals. Even as dem don fly some of di migrants go kontris for Central and South America, dem bin send 12 men from kontris including...
Barrasso questions State Department official on U.S.-Africa mineral partnerships amid China concerns
Central Wyoming News
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July 30, 2025
U.S. States Senator John Barrasso | XU.S. States Senator John Barrasso | X U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) questioned Jonathan Pratt, a senior official from the Department of State, during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing in...
Kuwait FM: Just peace ‘impossible’ without end to Zionist occupation
Kuwait Times
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July 29, 2025
Al-Yahya calls for full recognition of Palestine and accountability for war crimes at UN conference NEW YORK: Kuwait’s foreign minister has said a just and lasting peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved without ending the Zionist occupation...
Which Superpower is Helping Africa Economically: China or the USA?
Our Time Press - New York
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August 1, 2025
By Jeffery Kazembe Batts IG: @kazbatts China has been the African continent’s largest trading partner for the last 16 years. The United States is third, also trailing India. How are the policies of the current Trump administration and the...
BlackLine Studio360: The Platform for Future-Readiness
CFO Dive
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Trump’s top Africa official touts work on critical minerals
E&E News
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July 31, 2025
President Donald Trump’s top diplomat for Africa on Wednesday moved to sooth anxious senators about State Department staff cuts as the administration moves to access the continent’s minerals to compete with China. Jonathan Pratt, senior official...
What Does the Red “CD” Number Plate Mean in Kenya?
Techweez
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July 31, 2025
In Kenya, all motor vehicles are issued with a unique registration number, commonly referred to as a number plate. These serve to identify the individual or entity that owns the vehicle. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is involved in the...
Why Ignoring Procurement Costs More Than You Think
CFO Dive
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From Landlocked to Land-Linked: Tailoring Solutions for African and Asian LLDCs at LLDC3
News Central Asia
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July 30, 2025
Tariq Saeedi The Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3), set to take place from August 5–8, 2025, in Awaza, Turkmenistan, under the theme “Driving Progress through Partnerships,” provides a critical platform to...
State Dept: Trump’s “Third Countries” for Immigrants Have Awful Human Rights Records
The Intercept
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July 29, 2025
The United States is building an unprecedented network of deportee dumping grounds, pursuing deals with around a third of the world’s nations to expel immigrants to places where they do not hold citizenship. Once exiled, these third-country...
88.5 million people in East and Central Africa highly food insecure
Famagusta Gazette
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July 28, 2025
Some 88.5 million people in East and Central Africa were highly food insecure and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance at the end of June 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Intergovernmental Authority...
Over 88 mln people face hunger in East, Central Africa: report
Xinhua News Agency
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NAIROBI, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Some 88.5 million people in East and Central Africa were highly food insecure and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance at the end of June 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and...
These are all the countries currently on the Foreign Office ‘do not travel’ list
The Independent
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July 25, 2025
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