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Africa’s richest country sees farm exports to US jump 26% before tariff hit
Business Insider Africa
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August 18, 2025
South Africa’s agricultural exports to the United States climbed sharply in the second quarter, boosted by a strong harvest and rising global commodity prices. Exports rose 26% to $161 million in the three months through June compared with a year...
African Descent Festival vows to return to English Bay following last-minute cancellation
CBC/Radio-Canada
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August 18, 2025
Organizers of the African Descent Festival owe thousands of dollars to at least four organizations, including the Vancouver Park Board and the Vancouver Police Department. The two-day cultural celebration scheduled for English Bay Aug. 9 and 10...
Ship explodes near Key Bridge collapse site, Baltimore firefighters say
WUSA 9 - Washington D.C.
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August 19, 2025
The 750-foot bulk carrier showed signs of damage "consistent with a fire or explosion," according to the Baltimore City Fire Department BALTIMORE — Baltimore firefighters responded by land and water, enlisting tug boats to help the 23 people on...
African Stars in Europe: Who Earns the Most and Why
Nigerian Eye
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August 18, 2025
It is a match day at the Santiago Bernabéu. With flashing cameras and chants from the stands in Madrid, it is game night. The silence precedes the turn around the corner, and there, looming over the crowd, is a man whose background was in the...
Eyes on Africa: Where the state stops, the village begins
Richland Source - Ohio
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August 18, 2025
Why are we running a story on child care in South Africa? Source Media Properties is in the midst of a series examining child care in north central Ohio. The series title borrows from a famous African proverb, “it takes a village to raise a...
"Your accent is Capetonian": South Africans as Congolese man speaks on Cape Flats upbringing
Briefly
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August 18, 2025
A man named Joshua shared on the internet what it was like growing up in the Cape Flats as a person from the Democratic Republic of Congo Joshua told social media users about the time he travelled in a train and heard men talking about him in...
Digital Equity Africa showcases kids’ AI projects at Future Minds Demo Day
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 18, 2025
Digital Equity Africa at the weekend concluded the Future Minds AI Summer Camp 2025 with a Demo Day at the Alliance Française de Lagos / Mike Adenuga Centre, Ikoyi, where children between the ages 6 and 17 presented technology projects developed...
Supporting smallholder farmers in Africa
Cordis
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August 18, 2025
PrAEctiCe is helping farming communities in sub-Saharan Africa shift to more sustainable and resilient agricultural practices. The EU-funded PrAEctiCe(opens in new window) project is developing a digital tool to improve smallholder farmers’...
Moroccan activists join 1,000-ship flotilla aimed at breaking Gaza siege
Hespress
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August 18, 2025
Moroccan civil society groups and political organizations announced their participation in the upcoming Global Solidarity Flotilla aiming to challenge Israel’s blockade on Gaza, organizers confirmed this week. The initiative, which includes the...
How Chagossians Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa and Indigenous Peoples
Fair Observer
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August 18, 2025
If you feel good news has in recent times gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius — for a dose of encouragement. There, among the islands of the Indian Ocean, the Chagossian people have...
The VX Land Cruiser factor – why Africa is still poor
Daily Maverick
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August 18, 2025
The fuel queues across Malawi’s cities tell their own story of an economy and society in distress. The reason for the petrol shortage is not rocket science. It is also entirely predictable. The black-market rate of the Kwacha to the dollar is...
Maersk Reports Crew Stopped Spread of Container Fire on Vessel Off Africa
The Maritime Executive
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The container fire, which began last week on one of Maersk’s lager boxships, Marie Maersk, is believed to have stopped spreading, as firefighting efforts are expected to intensify. The 19,000 TEU vessel remains off the coast of Africa while the...
Africa civil aviation body pledges to advance air travel liberalization
Xinhua News Agency
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LUSAKA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to promoting the liberalization of air travel across the continent. AFCAC Secretary General Adefunke Adeyemi underscored the...
North West Provincial Legislature On North West Transport Investments' (NTI) Legal Appeals Affecting Bus Workers
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The North West Provincial Legislature Portfolio Committee on Community Safety and Transport Management chaired by Hon. Freddy Sonakile would like to express its deep concern and outrage following reports that 14 employees of...
Gibraltar: The Strait That No Longer Divides Africa from Europe, but Two Visions of the World
Morocco World News
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August 18, 2025
For decades, the Strait of Gibraltar marked the boundary between a developed North and a dependent South. Today, it has become something else entirely, a strategic fault line between Europe turning inward and an emerging African front, anchored by...
TotalEnergies publishes 732-page tome as clearance eyed for South Africa exploration campaign
Upstream
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TotalEnergies has filed draft environmental documents with South Africa’s government outlining plans to drill multiple exploration and appraisal wells in 2026 or 2027 in the southern part of a huge deepwater block in the Orange basin. The French...
Egypt’s PM heads to Japan for TICAD 9 Africa development summit
Daily News Egypt
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August 18, 2025
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly left for Japan on Monday to attend the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), where his Japanese counterpart, Shigeru Ishiba, is expected to propose a new economic...
KnowBe4 Report Reveals a Dangerous Cybersecurity Perception Gap in African Industries
Security Review
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KnowBe4 has released its new report “Africa Human Risk Management Report 2025”. The report reveals a mismatch between employer perceptions and employee experience of organisational cybersecurity in key African industries – with potentially costly...
ECU Archeologists find what they believe to be four shipwrecks off the coast of North Carolina
Yahoo News
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — At the Office of State Archaeology Conservation Lab scientists with East Carolina University are preserving what they believe could be remains from four different shipwrecks — including one that may be the historic...
Caribbean Increasingly Looks to Africa.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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August 18, 2025
- Advertisement - Across the Caribbean, pride in African heritage is becoming stronger. People are showing it through food, clothing, music, and travel. At the same time, leaders in Africa and the Caribbean are creating new trade and cultural...