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Top 10 African countries with the least recovery in GDP from the COVID year to 2025
Business Insider Africa
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August 7, 2025
While some African economies have recovered well, others have struggled due to debt, inflation, political instability, and overdependence on a small number of businesses. For countries that have failed to restore economic momentum, the penalty is...
Serious Collective Efforts Needed to Curb Israeli Crimes: Pezeshkian
Tasnim News Agency
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August 10, 2025
The Iranian president on Sunday received the credentials of nine incoming foreign ambassadors to Tehran. In the meetings, Pezeshkian deplored the escalation of Israeli atrocities against the defenseless people of Gaza. He said it is necessary for...
Translating peace into shared prosperity in the Great Lakes region
Mail & Guardian
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August 8, 2025
In the DRC, around 74% of the population lives in extreme poverty, living on less than $2.15 per day. Photo: Alexis Huguet/AFP After more than three decades of conflict in eastern Congo, fuelled by over 100 armed groups, there is finally a glimmer...
“Wake Up or Perish”: Muluzi Sounds Final Warning as Malawi’s Donor Dependency Era Ends
Nyasa Times
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August 7, 2025
United Democratic Front (UDF) leader Atupele Muluzi has delivered a blunt and sobering message to Malawians: the age of aid is over—and unless the country radically transforms how it views economics, leadership, and its own potential, it will...
Tanzania targets LPG bulk procurement to cut costs, boost supply
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. The government has embarked on major infrastructure upgrades at key seaports as it moves to bring liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) under the Bulk Procurement System (BPS), in a strategic move aimed at improving fuel security and...
New Report Reveals Devastating Impact of Trump’s Expanded Travel Ban
Immigration Impact - Washington D.C.
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August 6, 2025
$715 Million in Taxes, $2.5 Billion in Spending Power at Risk WASHINGTON, DC, August 6 — A new report released today by the American Immigration Council details the sweeping economic and humanitarian toll of the Trump administration’s June 2025...
UN Chief Hails Turkmenistan’s Quiet Diplomacy as Launchpad for Landlocked Solidarity
Inter Press Service
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August 6, 2025
Civil Society, Conferences, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Featured, Global, Headlines, Humanitarian Emergencies, Inequality, Landlocked Developing Countries, Least Developed Countries, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations,...
Bukhungu stadium ready for FEASSSA games, Barasa says
The Standard
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Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa during the inspection of the ongoing works at Bukhungu stadium in preparation for East African Secondary Schools Games. [Benard Lusigi, Standard] Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa has given a clean bill of...
Ethiopia’s Green Legacy in the Eyes of Foreign Officials
Ethiopian News Agency
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By Gosaye Feyisa Launched by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June 2019, Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative (GLI) has grown into one of the world’s largest reforestation efforts. With over 40 billion seedlings planted and a target of 54 billion by...
Ndora : livestock farmers denounce stifling livestock taxation
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi, Ndora, August 3, 2025 – Livestock traders at the Ndora market in Bukinanyana district, Bujumbura province (west), are sounding the alarm over the sudden increase in district taxes. The new pricing, recently implemented, is...
Landlocked Nations Form New Bloc to Confront Climate Crisis and Inequity
Inter Press Service
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August 6, 2025
Africa, Climate Action, Climate Change, Climate Change Finance, Development & Aid, Disaster Management, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva...
Trump may charge foreign visitors $15,000 to visit U.S.
AS
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August 5, 2025
In yet another sharp escalation of U.S. policy when it comes to foreigners, the State Department is launching a one-year “visa bond pilot program” that will require certain business and tourist (B‑1/B‑2) applicants to post bonds of $5,000,...
Top 10 African countries with the most improvement in government balance from
Business Insider Africa
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August 6, 2025
The gap between a government's income (mostly from taxes, grants, and other sources) and expenses is measured by this fiscal indicator. Stronger financial management and more economic stability are indicated when a government continuously reports...
Kenya Police paired with Somalia’s Mogadishu City in CAF draws
Citizen TV Kenya
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August 9, 2025
Brian Okoth of Kenya Police FC heads to score past Shabana FC defenders during their FKF Premier League match at Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos County on June 15, 2025. Photo/Sportpicha Kenya Police, making a return to Africa’s top-tier club...
U.S. visa to attract $15,000 bond
OG TV
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August 6, 2025
The United States could require bonds of up to $15,000 for some tourist and business visas under a pilot programme to be launched in two weeks. According to a government notice, which gave this indication yesterday, the new programme is aimed to...
Rutana : six human traffickers sentenced
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi Rutana, August 3, 2025 – In Rutana, in Burunga province in southern Burundi, six men were found guilty of human trafficking. The First Instance Court sentenced them on Friday, August 1, to prison terms ranging from two to five...
BlackLine Studio360: The Platform for Future-Readiness
CFO Dive
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Bujumbura : maternal distress behind the rise in infanticide and abandonment
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 4, 2025 – The last weeks of July were marked by a series of tragedies in several neighborhoods of the commercial capital. infants were abandoned or killed by their own mothers, desperate acts that reveal the...
Bujumbura : a man found dead in a vehicle in Buyenzi
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, August 5, 2025 – The lifeless body of Claver Nzeyimana, 50 years old, from Kayanza in Butanyerera province (north), was discovered on Tuesday morning inside a vehicle. The incident took place on the 5th Avenue in the...
US Launches Visa Bond Pilot for B-1/B-2 Applicants in High-Overstay Countries
WebProNews
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August 5, 2025
The U.S. State Department’s announcement of a visa bond pilot program has sent ripples through global travel and immigration circles, introducing a financial hurdle for certain visitors that could reshape international mobility. Set to launch on...