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GlobalFest is more than just fireworks. It’s a spotlight on cultural diversity in 2025
LiveWire Calgary
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July 31, 2025
Without a doubt, Calgarians know and love GlobalFest’s annual international fireworks festival that pits nations to put on the most explosive show possible. But for 2025, the real magic of GlobalFest is the efforts being undertaken to celebrate...
GlobalFest more than just fireworks: spotlight on cultural diversity in 2025
LiveWire Calgary
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July 31, 2025
Without a doubt, Calgarians know and love GlobalFest’s annual international fireworks festival that pits nations to put on the most explosive show possible. But for 2025, the real magic of GlobalFest is the efforts being undertaken to celebrate...
Heavy rain in Guinea capital kills at least seven
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 31, 2025
At least seven people have died in Guinea’s capital Conakry due to heavy overnight rain, the government said Thursday. The city’s civil protection service had earlier told AFP that 10 people were killed and at least three were missing. Several...
Riveting French Film ‘Souleymane’s Story’ Follows Immigrant Deliveryman as He Navigates Paris and Asylum Status
The New York Sun
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July 31, 2025
An immigrant food deliveryman realizes the elderly man at the apartment door is not doing well. The young man offers to help the older one to his dinner table and, once there, makes sure he’s alright. Before leaving, he is asked by the senior...
‘Souleymane’s Story’ Review: An Immigrant Working in Food Delivery Navigates the Tribulations of Bureaucracy
IndieWire
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July 30, 2025
Everybody that Souleymane (Abou Sangare) encounters has an angle. The Guinean immigrant is nothing if not a hustler, zipping through the streets of Paris on his bicycle making food deliveries at all hours of the night in order to scrape together...
About Guinea Worm Eradication: A Global Health Milestone in Sight
Borgen Magazine
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July 30, 2025
SOMERSET, United Kingdom — Guinea worm disease is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that has seen one of the most dramatic declines in global health history. It has declined from an estimated 3.5 million cases across 20 countries in 1986 to just...
Celebrating 25 Years of Cultural Appreciation
New Hampshire Magazine
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July 29, 2025
Present day SAACC president Sandi Clark Kaddy standing next to African figures found at the organization. Tucked into the left of the entrance of the Portsmouth Historical Society on Middle Street is a wealth of history of the culture of the lives...
WATCH | Simphiwe Dana sparks debate on appreciation vs appropriation in African hair culture
IOL
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July 29, 2025
A lot of things may not be certain, but one thing is that African women have been celebrating their crowns and plaiting them in different ways. African women's hairstyles have become a point of discussion after multi-award-winning...
Global Perspective: Expectations rising for African economic growth, democratization
The Mainichi
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A man, center, in Niamey, the capital of Niger, is seen surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren in this photo taken in May 2023. (Mainichi/Mitsuyoshi Hirano) By Akihiko Tanaka, Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo From Aug. 20 to...
Advancing gender responsive land governance and women’s land tenure security
Capital
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July 27, 2025
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is convening a high-level regional workshop to advance gender-responsive land governance across the continent. As part of the multi-country initiative on Gender-Responsive Land Governance in...
How one million white Europeans - many seized on the south coast of England - were sold to the Muslim world and brutally exploited in the slavery scandal the Left DON'T want to speak about
Daily Mail
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July 27, 2025
When Englishman Thomas Pellow was 27, he led a slave-hunting expedition to the West African coast. His orders were to plunder the villages, kill the adults and capture the children. But Pellow was not a mercenary employed in the transatlantic...
‘Souleymane’s Story’ Review: Boris Lojkine’s Blisteringly Empathetic Immigration Drama
Slant Magazine - New York
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July 26, 2025
The opening shot of Souleymane’s Story finds Souleymane (Abou Sangare) standing in line in Paris for an asylum hearing, waiting to learn whether he officially counts as someone. He’s a recent arrival from Guinea, and across the film, director...
Echoes of Benue killings
The Sun Nigeria
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July 31, 2025
From Scholastica Hir, Makurdi In her village in Yelwata community, Guma Local Government (LG), Benue State, Nyam Vihimga, a farmer and businesswoman, grew maize, soya beans, yams, rice and other crops on her family land. During harvest, in...
Scientists research Nigeria’s okra, melon, four other crops during NASA’s space mission
Peoples Gazette
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July 31, 2025
International astronauts will research six indigenous Nigerian crops and seeds during the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Crew-11 Mission. The crops selected by NASA are okra, cowpea, Guinea corn (sorghum), amaranth, maize,...
Roadmap inspiring cultural institutions: Switch off, retreat and reconnect at Ankasa’s nature sanctuary for some self-love
Business and Financial Times
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July 26, 2025
The Ankasa Conservation Area is located in southwestern Ghana, a little over 350 kilometres west of the capital Accra. It is near the border with Côte d’Ivoire and encompasses the Nini Suhien National Park to the north and the Ankasa Forest...
The former liberation movements: The imperative of pan-African refoundation and amílcar cabral’s thoughts of the battle against our own weakness
Windhoek Observer
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PAUL T. SHIPALE (with inputs by Folito Nghitongovali Diawara Gaspar) Abstract This article critically examines the contemporary relevance and challenges facing Southern Africa’s former liberation movements, specifically in the context of the...
The world’s biggest iron ore windfall is fading for Australia, with no clear successor
The West Australian
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July 31, 2025
Flying deep into the heart of Western Australia, Rio Tinto Group executives, politicians and media step off a chartered jet into a Pilbara airport, little more than a sunbaked shed with metal detectors. Cameras roll. Smiles flash. They are here...
NASRDA In NASA Mission With Indigenous Seeds
Point Blank News
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July 31, 2025
… Flies Okra, Maize, Cowpea to Space Station Daniel Adaji Nigeria’s National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has joined a historic international space mission by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),...
Russia, US Compete in West Africa: Africa File, July 31, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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To receive the weekly Africa File or tri-weekly Congo War Security Review via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on X, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. Contributors: Miles Charles, Edlawit Tesfaye, and Calvin Hodges Key Takeaways: West Africa. Russia...
The best movies of 2025 so far
Sierra County Sentinel - New Mexico
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The best movies of 2025 so far As is so often the case, the first half of 2025 had some serious highs and lows. There were major box-office hits, like "Sinners," which is poised to be one of the highest-earning horror movies of the past decade,...