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Full List Of African Countries Affected By 3-Month US Visa Validity
Naija News
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July 11, 2025
In a statement released by the US Embassy in Abuja on Tuesday, the American government announced that “most non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to citizens of Nigeria will be single-entry visas with a three-month validity period.” The...
Visualizing The State Of Freedom Around The World
Zero Hedge
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In 2024, 60 countries saw their freedom decline in a historic election year. Strikingly, 40% of countries and territories that held elections experienced targeted attacks on candidates amid heightened instability. Yet bright spots were seen in...
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The Portugal News
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It has a vocabulary that highlights some specific professions, such as: bagaceiro: a workman who feeds sugar-cane husks into a furnace catadeira: a woman who culls coffee beans by hand bengaleiro: an umbrella maker or salesman One of the more...
Portuguese-speaking parliaments reject blocking CPLP summit in Guinea-Bissau
Ver Angola
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"I believe we must respect the separation of powers. We have our functions as parliaments, and heads of state also have their responsibilities. It will not be the Parliamentary Assembly [of the CPLP] that will decide not to hold a summit,"...
‘PTI committed to oil sector professionals’
Punch
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July 17, 2025
The Management of Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State, has restated its commitment to “training Nigeria’s next generation of oil and gas professionals in a safe, functional, and serene environment.’’ It also assured stakeholders of...
What Trump’s Africa Summit Is Trying to Achieve
Foreign Policy
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July 9, 2025
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a surprise African leaders’ summit in Washington, anti-government protests turn deadly in Kenya, and Nigerian ride-hailing start-up Moove eyes...
Why don't all Africans have free movement within Africa?
Deutsche Welle
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July 17, 2025
The African Union's Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, adopted in 2018, aims to give Africans the right to live and work anywhere within the bloc. It was meant to complement the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) launched in 2019 and...
Top 10 African countries with the most improvement in consumer price from 2024 to 2025
Business Insider Africa
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July 16, 2025
While moderate inflation, which is a measure of CPI, is often regarded as a sign of a developing economy, a continuously high or unexpected inflation rate can have disastrous consequences for national finances. On the other hand, a better...
Warriors make Botswana home base
New Era
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The Namibia Football Association (NFA) has announced that the Brave Warriors will play their upcoming international home matches in Francistown, Botswana, following a strategic partnership with the Botswana Football Association (BFA). This was...
NFA mum on Botswana Hosting Costs
Windhoek Observer
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Erasmus Shalihaxwe Namibia Football Association (NFA) says the NFA will not reveal how much it will pay Botswana to host Namibia’s international home matches. When approached by the Windhoek Observer, NFA interim secretary general Cassius Moetie...
List of at risk economies in Africa that are not considered fragile states
Business Insider Africa
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July 15, 2025
This difference indicates inadequacies in how fragility is characterized, emphasizing the need to reconsider global measures for measuring conflict and vulnerability. According to a report by the World Bank, Fragile and Conflict-Affected...
Summit recounts impact of Merck on healthcare
Zambia Daily Mail
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More than 2,280 scholarships for young doctors from 52 countries MARGARET CHISANGA Dubai MERCK Foundation has provided more than 2,280 scholarships for young doctors from 52 countries in 44 critical and underserved specialties, the Merck...
Prefecture of the Papal Household Poised for Renewal Under Leo XIV
National Catholic Register
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The post of prefect of the Papal Household has been vacant since the Vatican’s brief announcement in June 2023 that Archbishop Georg Gänswein’s term had ended the previous February. But in effect, the position has been unfilled since 2020, when...
Trinidad and Tobago nationals to pay an extra US$250 for US visa
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 8, 2025
News Sean Douglas 11 Minutes Ago The US Embassy in Port of Spain. FILE PHOTO - TT nationals, along with other "aliens" under US immigration law, will soon have to pay an extra US$250 (roughly $1,750) on top of their visa fee of US$185, to enter...
Carolina Cerqueira: Angola is playing its part in Lusophone mobility
Ver Angola
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"Angola is playing its role, Angola is paying attention. We are a country with 35 million inhabitants, after Brazil, we are the second most populous country in the CPLP (...). We have responsibilities internally, regionally, and internationally,...
Liberia Enters Carbon Market
Liberian Observer
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The Liberian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is leading the country's entry into the carbon market, aiming to sell carbon credits to companies and individuals seeking to offset their emissions. Dr. Emmanuel Yarpolowo, EPA Executive Director,...
Brave Warriors relocates home matches to Botswana
Windhoek Observer
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Erasmus Shalihaxwe The Namibia Football Association (NFA) has confirmed hat the Brave Warriors will play their upcoming international home matches in Botswana. This comes as Namibia works to upgrade its stadiums to meet international standards....
Shettima again!
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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July 13, 2025
This man will not let my pen rest “ne”? After bragging that I’ve been covering him since 2019, quoting quite a number of previous articles I have written on him in my last piece titled, “Shettima: Passion not compassion”; here we are yet again,...
Gulf of Guinea: African nations pledge sustainable ocean protection
Oceanographic Magazine
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July 14, 2025
Eight African nations – the majority of them surrounding the Gulf of Guinea – have pledged to sustainably manage 100% of the ocean areas under their national jurisdiction and commit to tackling Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing (IUU)...