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Uganda Launches Chan-2024: a New Era for Sports and Regional Unity
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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July 25, 2025
Uganda has today officially launched the African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024, marking a historic chapter in the country’s sports development and regional integration. The event held at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds was filled with messages of...
Liberia salutes AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina in landmark Government session
Premium Times
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July 25, 2025
Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, convened the full spectrum of his government leadership to hear from African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (www.AfDB.org), whom he lauded for a transformative decade at the helm of Africa’s...
Museveni launches 2024 CHAN
Independent (Uganda)
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July 25, 2025
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has launched the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Kampala where he has revealed East Africa’s readiness to co host the Continental Tournament. This is going go to be a...
Boakai Hails AfDB’s Adesina as ‘Champion of African Dev’t’
Liberian Observer
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President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, paid glowing tribute to African Development Bank (AfDB) President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina during a national ceremony held at the EJS Ministerial Complex in Oldest Congo Town. The event...
Climate Change Act: Assessing Buhari’s Unsung Legacy
This Day
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July 25, 2025
Sam Ifeanyi Onuigbo reflects on ex-President Muhammadu Buhari’s pivotal Climate Change Act, examining its lasting impact on Nigeria’s environmental policy and global standing. He had withheld assent to the Climate Change Bill in 2019. As one given...
Mali, Mauritania and Senegal must unite against cross-border terrorism
Institute for Security Studies
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Mali, Mauritania and Senegal must unite against cross-border terrorism The threat of a terrorist blockade of Mali’s Kayes and Nioro towns would be disastrous for all three countries. Western Mali, bordering Mauritania and Senegal, is increasingly...
An Insider’s personal reflection on Buhari’s climate change legacy
Daily Trust
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By Sam Onuigbo He had withheld assent to the Climate Change Bill in 2019. As one given to meticulous observation, he noted some grey areas that required clarity for operators of the law. It is painful to speak of Nigeria’s former President, His...
BRICS+ Series: BRICS is Facilitating France’s declining Colonial Grip on West Africa
IOL
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By 2025, the slow death of Françafrique, France’s long-standing political, economic, and military dominance in West and Central Africa has evolved from a continental rejection into a strategic recalibration. Playing part of this transition is the...
Where is BBQ Brawl season 6 filmed? Details explored
Sportskeeda
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July 21, 2025
Food Network's BBQ Brawl debuted on August 1, 2019, featuring chefs Bobby Flay and Michael Symon. The premiere was filmed at the Star Hill Ranch in Austin, Texas, and so were seasons 2 and 3 before production moved to Half Moon Bay, California,...
Ghana Shippers Authority and Prof Ransford Edward Van Gyampo in focus
MyJoyOnline
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July 24, 2025
The Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) has recently been under the spotlight as a result of its CEO, Prof. Ransford Edward Van Gyampo's revolutionary managerial style. As a nation, we should all be concerned about the performance of our state...
Farmers keep it humble as a Farm Family of the Year
Mankato Free Press - Minnesota
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SLEEPY EYE — In 2013, Craig and Elizabeth Fischer got married and one of their wedding gifts was a bison. It came with the stipulation that they buy one more, as bison are herd animals, Craig Fischer said. “Two weeks after we got the first one we...
The Inconvenient Truth: The last meal or the last mine?: Africa’s crossroads of life and legacy
Business and Financial Times
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July 23, 2025
By Professor Douglas BOATENG …A mine feeds an account, but a farm feeds a people. History will ask which we chose to sustain. Mining and agriculture are uneasy neighbours One extracts value from beneath the ground; the other cultivates value on...
The pernicious association of coups d’etat as somehow unique to Africa
Daily Maverick
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July 24, 2025
The word “coup” has been dropped into the political lexicon of South Africa. The public lexicon, that is… The word, now dropped in public, seems to have provided grist to the mill of Afro-pessimists and those self-assured people who would insist...
NPP Must Recognize Nkrumah as Ghana’s Sole Founder – A Plus
News Ghana
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July 20, 2025
Gomoa Central MP Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A Plus, has declared that the New Patriotic Party’s political fortunes will continue declining until it fully acknowledges Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as Ghana’s undisputed founding father. The...
Only two more meetings of 2025’s Border Games season to go
The Southern Reporter
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July 24, 2025
Saturday’s St Ronan’s Border Games at Innerleithen were round six of 2025’s truncated season, taking it to the three-quarter-way point. There being only eight sets of games this time round due to the circuit’s usual Peebles round not going...
When the street speaks louder than the ballot box
Ghanaian Times
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July 23, 2025
ONCE upon a time—not so long ago—the peoples of West Africa lived with hope and determination in a promising regional community: ECOWAS. While the region has endured its share of violent conflicts, the collective resolve of its leaders helped it...
SPOTLIGHT: Meet Ebewele Brown, style architect who treats tailors like bankers, built world‑class brand
Premium Times
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July 20, 2025
In Nigeria’s bustling fashion scene, few names carry the weight of both innovation and humanity, such as Ebewele Brown. The designer behind the thriving menswear label that bears his family name calls himself a style architect, not for flair...
Liberia: AfDB President Adesina Urges Boakai to Crack Down on Corruption, Underperformance
Front Page Africa
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July 23, 2025
Dr. Adesina said Liberia’s future depends on how well it handles what it already possesses. MONROVIA – African Development Bank (AfDB) President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has urged Liberia to take bold and decisive steps in managing its vast natural...
NPP will sink further until they apologise and accept Kwame ...
Modern Ghana
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Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central, Kwame Asare Obeng, widely known as Kwame A Plus, has called on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to recognize Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as the sole founder of modern Ghana. According to him, the party’s continued denial...
Liberia: Speaker Koon, Counterparts Launch Mano River Parliamentary Body with Call for Unity, Action, and Regional Progress
Front Page Africa
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July 21, 2025
He emphasized the urgency of building institutional synergy and leveraging parliamentary collaboration to tackle cross-border challenges and promote regional progress. MONROVIA, Liberia – The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia,...