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Kawhi Leonard Spends Time In Africa Empowering Youth In Rwanda
Black Enterprise
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August 6, 2025
The basketball player recently co-headlined the 2025 Giants of Africa Festival with Nigerian pop superstar Ayra Starr NBA player Kawhi Leonard recently co-headlined the 2025 Giants of Africa Festival with Nigerian pop superstar Ayra Starr,...
My Style Is a Mix of My Alabama Upbringing, West African Roots, and New England Education. Finding It Took Some Time.
Vogue - New York
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August 5, 2025
When I left Alabama for college in the Northeast, I was wearing the most neutral of disguises. My wardrobe consisted of tops and miniskirts belonging to the girl-next-door aesthetic, found at mall stores like the Limited and Gap. I unintentionally...
“Black History Minute,” a Poem by Harryette Mullen
Literary Hub
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August 6, 2025
sponsored by the state of Florida You could say the Atlantic triangle trade was a win-win-win deal. Intrepid traders profited by transporting essential goods. Enterprising settlers developed savage land, creating wealth and opportunity. Recruited...
Algeria has emerged as major player in the African Economy
Dispatch News Desk Pakistan
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August 5, 2025
Monitoring Desk: Algeria has emerged as a significant player in the African economy, boasting a strategic location, vast natural resources, reports APP News Agency. With a gross domestic product (GDP) of approximately $270 billion in 2024, Algeria...
Expectations from Belem-Beyond Pledges: Setting the Priority Right
The Times of India
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August 6, 2025
As the next Conference of the Parties (COP 30) looms on the horizon, anticipation surges among individuals from all corners of society eager to embark on a journey to participate in passionate discussions about climate change and its far-reaching...
Nigeria News32 minutes ago “It Is Entirely False” – ADC Debunks Reports That INEC Has Failed To Recognize David Mark’s Leadership The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has denounced reports claiming the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) …
Naija News
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August 6, 2025
The ADC National Publicity Secretary, Bola Abdullahi, in a statement on Wednesday, said the reports that INEC has failed to recognize Mark’s leadership are false and should be ignored. He added that the claims are misleading and Nigerians should...
Islam, Race and Rebellion in the Americas: Transatlantic Echoes of the West African Jihads
Middle East Monitor
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August 6, 2025
From the start of the fifteenth century, and for four hundred years to follow, twelve to fifteen million Africans, victims of the transatlantic slave trade, were shipped to the Americas and the Caribbean, mainly from regions along the Guinea...
Russia asks Central African Republic to replace Wagner with state-run Africa Corps and pay for it
WSOC 9 - North Carolina
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August 6, 2025
BANGUI, Central African Republic — (AP) — Officials in the Central African Republic have said that Russia has called on the country to replace the private Wagner mercenary group with Moscow's state-run Africa Corps and requested payment for...
Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now
Literary Hub
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August 5, 2025
2025 is shaping up to be the year of the Pynch. After 12 years of silence since Bleeding Edge, the 87-year-old author will publish Shadow Ticket on October 7th, 2025. The new novel concerns Milwaukee in the Great Depression—Hicks McTaggart, “a...
Rwanda agrees to take migrants from the US despite concerns over international law breaches
LBC
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6 August 2025, 02:06 US President Donald Trump holds a letter addressed to Rwandan President Paul Kagame congratulating him on the peace agreement with Democratic Republic of the Congo. Picture: Getty Rwanda on Tuesday became the third African...
Today in History: Hiroshima 80 years later
Euro Weekly News
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August 6, 2025
Mushroom cloud visible from Enola Gay shortly after dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima August 6th 1945. Photo credits: Everett collection/Shutterstock Eighty years ago today, at 8:15 a.m., the world entered a terrifying new era. From the belly...
Guinea Bauxite Concession Revoked: UAE Miner Loses Rights in Unexpected Mineral Crackdown
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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August 5, 2025
Guinea revokes UAE bauxite license, deepening state grip over strategic mineral resources. ByCharles Pitts August 5, 2025August 5, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes Key Takeaways Guinea bauxite concession revoked from UAE-based EGA, reassigned to new...
Mahama: Africa must own its future
Ghanaian Chronicle
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August 6, 2025
President John Dramani Mahama has called for a shift in global health governance, urging African nations to define and lead their own health priorities. Speaking at the opening of the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit in Accra, President Mahama...
Vietnam issues alert over African Swine Fever with 100,000 animals infected
Asia News
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August 5, 2025
Today's headlines: Netanyahu orders occupation of the entire Gaza Strip; Maximum weather alert in Hong Kong for heavy rain, over 82,000 people evacuated in Beijing; Preliminary talks begin between Cambodia and Thailand after border clashes;...
Adjusting the Temperature: Climate Change and International Law
The News Chronicle
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August 6, 2025
Before the clenching constipation of reluctant and cloddish policy makers, climate change advocates have found courts surprisingly amenable to their concerns. Bodies of environmental law in national courts and international tribunals are now...
How Georgia became the first state to define its culinary culture
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia
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The chamber’s advocacy of “food from here” was prompted by what it deemed an “invasion of nonlocal products,” explain the authors, who note that the first decade of the 20th century saw Southern grocery stores stock canned goods, processed foods...
‘Rehabilitation’: African country offers help for Trump’s deportation agenda
WorldNetDaily
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August 5, 2025
The Rwandan government agreed to take in hundreds of migrants from the U.S. in a major win for President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda. The small, landlocked country in Central Africa will accept up to 250 deportees from the U.S., a...
Steel and Stardust: D’Tigress Show Africa How It’s Done — Again!
The News Chronicle
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August 6, 2025
Call it grit. Call it guts. Call it Nigeria. In a tournament that chews up the best and spits out broken dreams, D’Tigress walked in like they owned the court—and left with their fifth straight FIBA Women’s AfroBasket crown. 2025 is not just...
FNB Art Joburg returns for the 18th consecutive year
Rosebank Killarney Gazette
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August 6, 2025
Africa’s leading and longest-running contemporary art fair, FNB Art Joburg, is set to return for the 18th consecutive year. Taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre from September 5-7, the fair promises to immerse the city in the best of the...
Nigeria Clinches Rights to Host 2027 African School Games
The News Chronicle
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August 6, 2025
Nigeria has been officially selected to host the second edition of the African School Games in 2027, following an announcement by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA). The confirmation came in a letter dated August 5,...