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U.S. tightens visa rules for Nigerian travelers with mandatory social media disclosure
Business Insider Africa
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August 18, 2025
This new measure, which extends across most non-immigrant visa categories, reflects Washington’s growing emphasis on digital footprint checks as a tool for national security and immigration vetting. According to the disclosure on the UN mission’s...
Trans African Tourism & Unity Campaign launches from Accra, championing a visa-free Africa by 2030
The Herald Ghana
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August 18, 2025
The Trans African Tourism & Unity Campaign will embark on a historic 40,000-kilometer road journey across 39 African countries, starting from Accra from today, August 18, 2025. This groundbreaking initiative is a 163-day road journey across Africa...
Chad – a country of contrasts
Park Rapids Enterprise - Minnesota
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August 17, 2025
Editor’s note: Retired judge John P. Smith, who lives in Nevis, will share his traveling adventures with the Enterprise, as he concludes the last leg of his quest. “I strongly believe that seeing a place for myself is the way to mitigate...
NHPR Folk Show Music and Dance Calendar 8.17.25
New Hampshire Public Radio
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August 18, 2025
NHPR Folk Calendar of virtual and actual concerts, open mics, contradances, etc Monday, August 18, 2025 edition Many event announcements have short lead-times. Check the NHPR Folk Show Facebook page for timely announcements. Monday, August 18,...
Goals and Highlights: DR Congo 1-3 Morocco in the African Nations Championship
VAVEL
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August 17, 2025
Thank you very much Thank you very much for joining us for our live coverage of the Democratic Republic of Congo vs. Morocco match, corresponding to matchday 5 of the African Nations Championship. We wish you a pleasant evening and encourage you...
Trans African Tourism & Unity Campaign launches in Accra to champion visa-free Africa by 2030
CNR Citi Newsroom
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August 17, 2025
The Trans African Tourism & Unity Campaign will embark on a historic 40,000-kilometer road journey across 39 African countries, starting from Accra on Monday, August 18, 2025. This groundbreaking initiative is a 163 day road journey across Africa...
Everywhere Insiders 10: Global Security: Gaza, Ukraine, Asia, and African Political Stability
The Good Men Project - California
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August 17, 2025
Irina Tsukerman is a human rights and national security attorney based in New York and Connecticut. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in National and Intercultural Studies and Middle East Studies from Fordham University in 2006, followed by a Juris...
Just In: Boko Haram Founder’s Son Arrested
Naija News
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August 18, 2025
A young son of Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf, has been arrested in Chad, where he was allegedly leading a jihadist cell. According to AFP, security sources have confirmed that Muslim Mohammed Yusuf, believed to be 18 years old, was arrested...
Chad signs new national football coach
Xinhua News Agency
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YAOUNDE, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Chadian FA on Thursday signed a two-year contract with Raoul Savoy as head coach of the national senior men's football team. The 52-year-old Swiss succeeds Tahir Zakaria, whose contract was terminated in July...
Women and girls face growing peril in Africa’s Sahel
Baltimore Afro-American - Maryland
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August 16, 2025
By Wayne Campbell The world is becoming increasingly hostile towards women and girls. Sadly, by now, each one of us may know of someone who has been targeted with gender-based violence. What is equally disturbing is the fact that the public...
CAF FINE FAZ FOR ABSENCE OF COACH DURING MANDATORY PRESS CONFERENCE IN CHAD
Zambia Reports
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August 13, 2025
CAF has ordered the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) to pay a fine of K115,905 (USD 5,000) for head coach Avram Grant’s absence from the mandatory press conference ahead of the CHAN match against DR Congo. In a statement released on Wednesday,...
Anatomy of terror: Daesh expansion in Africa
Sabah
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August 15, 2025
In recent years, Africa has become one of the regions where Daesh is most active. Daesh factions are particularly active in West Africa, East Africa and the Sahel. A look at the 2025 Global Terrorism Index data reveals that the Sahel region stands...
Macron faces Africa’s backlash as colonial past haunts France
Today.Az
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August 15, 2025
By Leyla Tarverdiyeva, Day.az The past is relentlessly catching up with France, and it is almost impossible to avoid a “meeting” with it. French media report that President Macron has officially acknowledged France’s unflattering role in the...
Mpox declining, cholera spreading, says Africa CDC
Peoples Gazette
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August 15, 2025
One year after the World Health Organisation declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, Africa has made significant progress in controlling the disease. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which also...
ATTRITION: Islamic Terrorists Ravage Africa
Strategy Page
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August 15, 2025: Over 150,000 African deaths are attributed to Islamic terrorist groups in the past ten years. Escalating violence in the Sahel and Somalia have caused fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa to increase by 60...
9 must-see queer movies debuting fall 2025
Out Magazine
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August 14, 2025
Check out these exciting queer movies! Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey in Plainclothes; Jennifer Lopez in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Sundance Institute; Lionsgate FilmsWe're more than halfway through 2025, but many of the year's most anticipated movies...
Hate Speech: Former Prime Minister Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison In Chad
Naija News
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August 10, 2025
Naija News reports that the court in the capital, N’Djamena, handed down the verdict on Saturday, convicting Masra, one of President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno’s most outspoken critics, for his alleged role in provoking inter-communal violence on...
Chad: 20-Year Sentence for Opposition Leader
Human Rights Watch
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August 12, 2025
(Nairobi) – The guilty verdict and 20-year sentence imposed on August 9, 2025, on Succès Masra, leader of Chad’s main opposition party, is the culmination of a trial based on politically motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Masra, the...
France's complete withdrawal from West Africa should worry the rest of the world
The National News
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Last month, France’s armed forces finished dismantling their bases in Senegal, the last West African country to have hosted a permanent French military presence. The withdrawal marked the final chapter of a French retreat from the region that...
Succès Masra: how Chad’s opposition firebrand came to be sen...
Modern Ghana
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Chad's opposition firebrand and a former prime minister, Succès Masra, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on 9 August. He was accused of inciting violence and hate speech on social media, leading to the death of 42 people in a clash between...