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Top 10 African countries with the lowest leap in government debt from 2024 to 2025
Business Insider Africa
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June 26, 2025
While borrowing is sometimes required to promote development, the capacity to sustain a minimal year-on-year increase in government debt indicates good economic management, maintains macroeconomic stability, and fosters long-term resilience. As...
Startical launches the firm’s 2nd demo satellite — IOD-2
SatNews
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June 26, 2025
IOD-2, Startical’s second demonstrator satellite and part of the EU-funded ECHOES project, will continue validating real-time VHF voice and data communications between aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers from space Startical, the company...
TUI refuses to refund 'food poisoned' couple as they may have 'overindulged'
Daily Star
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June 3, 2025
A couple claim that their idyllic 5-star holiday was ruined by severe 'food poisoning', but travel firm TUI refused a refund as they couldn't prove they hadn't simply 'overindulged'. David and Julia Lofts jetted off to the five-star resort in Cape...
Frederick’s final bell: Boston shutters its last middle school
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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“Our friend group, everyone’s going to go their own way,” said Honesty Graham, as she spun a hot pink fidget toy around her hand. “Everyone’s being split up.” The district marked the Frederick for closure at the end of the school year as part of...
‘National Carrier Will Buoy Tourism Development in Nigeria’
This Day
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June 27, 2025
Stories by Chinedu Eze Travel and aviation experts have declared that for Nigeria to realise its full potential in tourism, it must establish a national carrier to buoy the sector. The experts spoke at the just concluded Aviation Summit 2025...
Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Intercept
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Trump administration could resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own without any chance to object on the grounds that they might be tortured. This may clear a legal path for the...
Olukoyede Seeks Enhanced Inter-Agency Collaboration Against Trans-Border Crimes
Oriental News Nigeria
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June 26, 2025
Tunde Bakare The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has called for enhanced inter-agency collaboration in the fight against transnational crimes among the member states of West and Central...
TUI Group Expands African Hotel Portfolio
Rus Tourism News
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June 26, 2025
TUI Group’s expansion of its hotel portfolio across Africa marks a bold commitment to growing its footprint in the continent’s dynamic hospitality industry. With a diverse lineup of 12 leisure hotel brands, TUI is offering travelers unique ways to...
The power of islands: offshore Africa enters a new energy era
African Business
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May 30, 2025
Scattered around the fringes of the continent, Africa’s small island countries are notable for their diversity. Some – such as Mauritius, a hub for financial services, and Cabo Verde, a tourist hotspot – are relatively wealthy. Others, like...
Africa launches second phase of phytosanitary programme to...
George Herald
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According to the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) data, fall armyworm alone is estimated to cause the highest yield loss in Africa – USD 9.4 billion annually. AGRICULTURE NEWS - The Department of Agriculture, in...
Muhammad Safawi Ready To Roar In New Position As Harimau Malaya Striker
Bernama
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June 2, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR, June 2 (Bernama) -- Winger Muhammad Safawi Rasid is ready to embrace the challenge of playing in a new position as a striker in international matches for Harimau Malaya. Muhammad Safawi stated that the Tier 1 international match...
'TUI won't give refund for our ruined five-star holiday and says we have eaten too much'
Kent Live
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June 2, 2025
A couple claim their romantic 5-star holiday was ruined by horrific 'food poisoning' - only for TUI to refuse a refund as they could not prove they had not simply 'overindulged'. David and Julia Lofts jetted off to the five-star resort in Cape...
“Girl Education Today for Women Empowerment Tomorrow”: Emphasizes Senator Dr. Rasha Kelej on ...
Business Ghana
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Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany together with First Ladies of Africa who are also their Ambassadors, Ministries of Health, Education, Communication & Gender, mark ‘International Women’s Day...
Africa’s hospitality boom: Are we building fast enough?
Zawya
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Africa’s hospitality sector is booming — but is development keeping up with demand? That was the key question tackled by a panel of industry leaders at the Future Hospitality Summit Africa 2025, held from 17 to 19 June at The Westin Cape Town....
Russia challenging US, China for strategic clout in Africa
Asia Times
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June 26, 2025
Russia has never had an African colony. It stayed out of the scramble for Africa, only engaging with African states in the 19th Century. In 1869, for instance, the Russians gave Ethiopia military support to threaten the position of the British in...
World Oceans Day 2025: Theme, History, Activities, and more
Newsd
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June 7, 2025
World Oceans Day 2025:The ocean covers 70% of the Earth. Our body is sustained by water itself. Not only human, but it also sustains every other organism on earth. It produces more than 50% of oxygen. It takes care of the whole aquatic...
Scandal-plagued city councilor wants to ‘celebrate’ at final meeting before leaving office
Boston.com - Massachusetts
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June 24, 2025
Local News Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson outside the John J. Moakley federal courthouse in Boston. David L. Ryan/Boston Globe City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson, who recently pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges, is...
We have strengthened ICRC as engine room for infrastructure revolution – Tinubu
Punch
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June 25, 2025
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that his administration has significantly strengthened the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, transforming it into a central powerhouse for the delivery of public-private partnership (PPP)...
Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations (FAO) And International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Launch Second Phase Of The Africa Phytosanitary Programme
MENAFN
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June 23, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), in collaboration with the Government of South Africa, represented by the Department of Agriculture,...
British tourists ditching Spain and Portugal for even cheaper destinations - here's where they're headed
Daily Mail
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June 13, 2025
British holidaymakers are ditching bargain breaks in European hotspots for affordable high-quality vacations in an entirely new continent, travel companies report. Many UK tourists are flocking to north Africa for holidays due to its year-round...