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South Africa: Gun Violence Petrifies Brakpan Residents - South African News Briefs - September 5, 2025
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Nigeria: N4trn Debt - Reps Broker Peace Between FG, Contractors, Payment Begins Monday
[Premium Times] "We had over four hours engagement and they left here smiling. We got the strategy in place, and we're going to come back on the 21st of this month to review what we've done so far, how we've ticked the boxes,
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Africa: Iatf 2025 - Africa Seeks to Harness AfCFTA for Economic Transformation
[Ethiopian Herald] The fourth Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF 2025) opened yesterday in Algiers, Algeria, with a strong focus on accelerating the continent's economic transformation through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
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Liberia: Sharp Hike in Alien Work Permit Fees
[Liberian Observer] In a decisive policy shift aimed at tackling unemployment and reducing foreign dominance in the job market, the government has announced a sharp hike in alien work permit fees, tripling the annual cost from US$1,000 to US$3,000.
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Africa: 'It's Time to Deliver' - COP29 Presidency Urges Action on Climate Finance Promises
[allAfrica] Climate change continues to have escalating impacts on the world, making the Conference of the Parties (COP) an essential global climate action platform. Climate-related disasters are increasing worldwide, affecting mostly developing countries that contribute very little to global emissions. In Africa, climate change costs countries between 2% and 5%
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Congo-Kinshasa: Mining DR Congo's Cobalt - False Solution to Climate Transition?
[allAfrica] Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), essential for global clean energy technologies, presents a paradox for the global energy transition. While the country supplies more than 70 percent of the world's cobalt for electric vehicles and renewable energy systems, mining continues to undermine
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Africa: We Ask Congress to Step Up NOW before Toppling Investments from Tanzania to Togo to Haiti
[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- The global trade landscape is full of competing countdown clocks that are quietly challenging U.S. competitiveness as they tick down. In the chaos of today's trade environment, it's difficult for American business owners and legislators to know what to address first.
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Africa: Uncertainties Mount as African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Deadline Nears
[allAfrica] With the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) that has anchored U.S-Africa relations since 2000 set to expire on September 30, prospects for extension or renewal grow increasingly slim. Among foundational principles that have anchored AGOA, the key one is the duty-free entry of specific African products into
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China’s Xi and North Korea’s Kim meet in Beijing, pledge deeper ties
Xi and Kim, along with top officials from their countries, met on Thursday at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People a day after Kim attended a Chinese military parade alongside other foreign leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Enhancing road safety in Central African Republic: MINUSCA's joint patrol initiative
Enhancing road safety in Central African Republic: MINUSCA's joint patrol initiative
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Chasing the rain in the United Arab Emirates
It’s an infrequent visitor to this part of the world that is usually baked by sunshine – and one that fascinates the people who live here.
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Guinea-Bissau: Embalo clings to presidency despite end of term
The president's term officially expired midnight Thursday. But instead of a transfer of power, Sissoco Embalo stayed on as president in what the opposition has termed as an illegal power grab