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World News | Firms Led by US Military Veterans Deliver Aid in Africa and Gaza, Alarming Humanitarian Groups
Latestly
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June 18, 2025
On a plane over Upper Nile State (South Sudan), Jun 18 (AP) Swooping low over the banks of a Nile River tributary, an aid flight run by retired American military officers released a stream of food-stuffed sacks over a town emptied by fighting in...
Lower prices or lose license, Torit mayor warns traders
Radio Tamazuj
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July 3, 2025
The mayor of Torit Municipal Council, Eastern Equatoria State, on Wednesday warned traders against unjustified increases in commodity prices and demanded an immediate reduction, threatening to revoke the licenses of violators. During a meeting...
China a key backer of UN-centered system for peaceful development
China Daily Global
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LI MIN/CHINA DAILY The commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the United Nations this year is an apt time to reflect on the crucial role China has played in maintaining global peace and security, one of the three pillars on which the UN was...
The vital interconnection between social well-being and environmental health
Number One Citizen Daily
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July 2, 2025
By Garang Garang Adim The foundation of any thriving society lies in the well-being of its people and the health of its environment. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), social well-being refers to the overall health, happiness, and...
On the verge of repeating the Iraq War lie, Netanyahu has Trump where he wants him
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 19, 2025
It is also one of just five countries that is not a signatory to the UN’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (along with North Korea, India, Pakistan and South Sudan). Thus, Israel’s war with Iran is more about regime change than it is about...
India Ranked 50th Poorest Country In Terms Of GDP Or Per Person Income
Trak.in
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July 3, 2025
GDP per capita, calculated by dividing a country’s total economic output by its population, serves as a useful indicator of individual economic productivity. According to 2025 estimates from the International Monetary Fund, the latest data...
EAC Common Higher Education Area comes under scrutiny
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. Nearly a decade after the East African Community (EAC) launched the Common Higher Education Area (CHEA), aimed at facilitating academic mobility and regional integration, questions remain over its actual impact and implementation....
Time for war is over, Badagbu returns with message of peace
The City Review
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June 24, 2025
By Emmanuel Mandella The Acting Governor of Western Equatoria State, Daniel Badagbu returned to Yambio on Monday with a bold declaration: Peace is holding, unity is rising, and the future is green. After spending nearly three months in the capital...
What Foreign Aid Cuts Mean for the World’s Worst Displacement Crisis
Foreign Policy
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July 2, 2025
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Sudanese refugees face worsening hunger amid unprecedented aid cuts, analysts remain skeptical of the new peace deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and...
Moscow strengthens transport ties with three African countries
Sacramento Sun - California
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Russia, Djibouti, Egypt, and Morocco will form working groups to coordinate projects following talks in Trkiye Moscow has agreed with Djibouti, Egypt, and Morocco to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the transport sector, with a focus on...
Malnutrition in Haiti
Independence Bulletin Journal - Iowa
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Malnutrition in Haiti Many countries around the world are experiencing malnutrition and poverty. Countries suffering from malnutrition include Haiti, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Ethiopia. As of 2022, 735.1 billion people are malnourished. 50%...
A Village for the Classroom: Tombura’s Education Crisis Signals a Dark Future
The City Review
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July 2, 2025
Tombura’s grim numbers echo a nationwide pattern, especially in conflict-ridden states like Jonglei, Upper Nile, Unity, and parts of Greater Equatoria, where displacement, armed attacks, and food insecurity continue to disrupt education. By...
Starving Sudanese people forced to eat weeds as war rages
Loop News
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With Sudan in the grips of war and millions struggling to find enough to eat, many are turning to weeds and wild plants to quiet their pangs of hunger. They boil the plants in water with salt because, simply, there is nothing else. “So it’s really...
Regional subsidiaries boost profits for Kenyan banks
Zawya
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Virtually every aspect of lend- ing for the big banks, says Ronny Chokaa, a senior ana- lyst at Nairobi-based Capital A Investment Bank, “was almost flat in Kenya [over the last year and more], but in the subsidiaries, it went up. Most of the...
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Immigration raids sweep up people who just want to work
Cedar County News - Nebraska
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July 2, 2025
These days, besides seeing American bombers attacking Iran, we’re confronted with almost daily news about immigration raids and with court rulings about what ICE can, and cannot, do. We’ve been treated to the arrest of a man whose three sons are...
Carr: Fed judge checks all the hack boxes
Boston Herald - Massachusetts
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July 2, 2025
It must be fabulous to be U.S. District Court Judge Brian E. Murphy, relaxing in his mansion in posh Shrewsbury, finally making the big bucks after all those years as a starving blow-in lawyer from Maryland — $246,300 a year. And on top of his own...
Ethiopia’s Growing Poverty Crisis Amidst Conflict and Economic Challenges
ImpACT International
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Ethiopia, once heralded as a beacon of rapid economic growth in Africa, now faces a daunting reversal of fortunes. Despite recording an impressive 8.1% GDP growth in fiscal year 2023/24, the country is grappling with a deepening poverty crisis...
MSF: Abyei cholera outbreak risks spreading without action
Radio Tamazuj
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July 1, 2025
A cholera outbreak in the Abyei Administrative Area risks spreading further if water and sanitation conditions are not urgently improved, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned. Health authorities in Abyei officially declared a cholera outbreak on...
‘The Mauritanian’ Producer Set To Adapt Fatin Abbas’s Novel ‘Ghost Season’ Into Feature Film
Deadline
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June 23, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Smashing Dandelions, the new production company founded by The Mauritanian writer and producer Michael Bronner and Bhakti Shringarpure, has set plans to adapt Ghost Season, the novel by Sudanese-American writer Fatin Abbas, into a...
Trump Versus America
Columbus Free Press - Ohio
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July 2, 2025
Many factors explain the demise of earlier civilizations, but not one collapsed as a result of deliberate decisions by a top political leader who wanders about destroying the pillars of his country’s greatness. Donald J, Trump, however, does...