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Gambia   Human Rights   Photos   United Nations  
Mothers fight to protect daughters as The Gambia considers unbanning FGM
*Names changed to maintain privacy. | Banjul, The Gambia – Fatou* was barely a year old when she underwent female circumcision, the practice also called female genital mutilation that rights groups ... (photo: Creative Commons / Brett Lees-Smith from Nuneaton, Warwickshire,, United Kingdom https://www.flickr.com/people/56504057@N00) Al Jazeera
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Binance   Photos   Trading   Wikipedia: Binance   cryptocurrency  
Nigerian Binance Executive Escapes Custody, Deepening Ongoing Feud
The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine's premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market ... (photo: Creative Commons / Satheesh Sankaran https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) BitRSS
Image showing Lumley street photography, this is a view of the Lumley Round about in Freetown Sierra Leone, January 28, 2019. North Africa bears the brunt of Europe’s externalisation policies: Analysts
Tunis, Tunisia – Thirty-two-year-old Edna Mossay left Freetown, Sierra Leone, with her four children three years ago. | “It’s not easy there. There’s no food, no medication, no school,” she ... (photo: Creative Commons / Victor turay) Al Jazeera
Africa   Europe   Migration   Photos  
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the 26th batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Starlink network expands to Yemen, Sudan by black market terminal sales
ALBAWABA – Despite Elon Musk’s repeated remarks on SpaceX’s Starlink service being worldwide, the company declared that it disables terminals when they are utilized by a sanctioned or unlicensed... (photo: AP / John Raoux) Al Bawaba
Elon Musk   Photos   Starlink   Trading   Wikipedia: Starlink  
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Israeli soldiers are seen in Balata, a Palestinian refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023 Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After narrowly backing Israel’s military action in Gaza in November, Americans now oppose the campaign by a solid margin. Fifty-five percent cur... (photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed) Gallup
Gaza   Israel   Photos   US States  
Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, September 9, 2021. March Economic Confidence Steady, Still Improved From Fall
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While still negative, Americans’ view of the U.S. economy remains improved in 2024 from last year. Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index is a... (photo: Creative Commons / Unsplash/ Tomas Eidsvold) Gallup
Economy   Global Trading   Photos   US States  
Chokri Belaid  Tunisia sentences four to death for 2013 murder of politician Chokri Belaid
A court in Tunisia has sentenced four people to death and two to life imprisonment for their role in the assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaid 11 years ago. | ... (photo: Creative Commons / Sami Mlouhi https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sami_Mlouhi) Al Jazeera
Chokri Belaid   Photos   Politics   Tunisia  
FILE - Senegalese youth gather around pirogues on the beach at dusk in Fass Boye, Senegal, Aug. 29, 2023. Officials in Senegal say at least two dozen people have died off Senegals northern coast and many were injured when a boat carrying migrants capsized. The boat was bound for Europe and capsized Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 near the town of Saint-Louis where bodies washed up on shore. UN report charts lethal cost of migration over past decade
More than 63,000 people died or disappeared on migration routes around the world over the last decade, with drowning the biggest cause of death, according to the United N... (photo: AP / Felipe Dana, File) Al Jazeera
EU Migrant Crisis   Human Rights   Photos   Refugees   Wikipedia: International Organization for Migration  
Image showing a young South Sudanese girl next to a water distribution point, South Sudan, August 14, 2021. South Sudan on the brink after oil exports derailed by Sudan’s civil war
Violence and insecurity could worsen in South Sudan after one of its key oil pipelines to international markets, which passes through neighbouring Sudan, was damaged last... (photo: Creative Commons / Lomoraronald / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) Al Jazeera
Africa   Oil   Photos   South Sudan  
A woman takes maize meal at a World Food Programme distribution center in Neno district southern Malawi, Sunday March 24, 2024. Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has declared a state of disaster over drought in 23 of its 28 districts saying the country urgently needs more than $200 million in humanitarian assistance. Malawi follows Zambia in declaring drought disaster as El Nino brings hunger to southern Africa
A third country, Zimbabwe, has also seen much of its crops decimated and is considering following suit and declaring a drought disaster, underlining concerns raised by th... (photo: AP / Kenneth Jali) The Economic Times
Climate Change   Extreme Weather   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: El NińoSouthern Oscillation  
Supporters of presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye gather outside his campaign headquarters as they await the results of the presidential election, in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Senegal's opposition candidate Faye takes early lead in presidential poll
Early results from Senegal's presidential election on Sunday showed that opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye is ahead of other candidates. | Preliminary results fr... (photo: AP / Mosa'ab Elshamy) Anadolu Agency
Africa   Elections   Photos   Senegal  
A Libyan oil worker, works at a refinery inside the Brega oil complex, in Brega east of Libya, on Saturday Feb. 26, 2011. Production at Brega has dropped by almost 90 percent amid the country's crisis because many employees have fled and few ships are coming to offload the product. Libya to investigate claims oil smuggling is fuelling Sudan civil war
Libyan authorities have said they will investigate allegations of wholesale mismanagement in the country’s National Oil Corporation, with officials telling the Guardian... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla) AOL
Africa   Libya   Photos   Sudan  
Secretary-General Antnio Guterres (left) meets with Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb, Grand Imam of al-Azhar. Int’l reactions to Israel’s aggression against Gaza ‘disappointing’: Egypt’s Al-Azhar
The grand imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar University, the highest seat of learning for Sunni Muslims, said Sunday that the international community's reactions to Israel’s ... (photo: UN / Mark Garten) Anadolu Agency
Egypt   Gaza   Photos   United Nations  
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S.Africa's ex-president Zuma barred from May election
Alex Newman With Shabnam Mohamed - Africans Rising Up Agains
South Africa: Conservation Key To Building A Thriving Biodiv
Senegal Wants To Create A National Currency
Image showing Lumley street photography, this is a view of the Lumley Round about in Freetown Sierra Leone, January 28, 2019.
North Africa bears the brunt of Europe’s externalisation policies: Analysts
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EU Probes Apple, Google, Meta Under New Digital Law
Brazil Takes Expertise To Morocco Ag Trade Show
Zimbabwe Seeks Membership In BRICS New Development Bank
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the 26th batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
Starlink network expands to Yemen, Sudan by black market terminal sales
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Petroleum Ministry Ends Retreat, Pledges to Implement Delive
Celebrating Nigeria’s Exceptional Female Leaders: RED
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Kenya holds China alumni symposium on Belt and Road Initiati
Israeli soldiers are seen in Balata, a Palestinian refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023
Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza
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Colombia expels Argentine diplomats after Milei calls Petro
Citadel cadet arrested in Jan. 6 Capitol riot files for Sout
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Nigerians battle long, gruelling path to doctors’ appointm
Some cancer patients can find it hard to tell family and fri
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Amb. Richy Onolememen: When A Captain Of Industry Venture
Banjul   Gambia 2007 (35)
Mothers fight to protect daughters as The Gambia considers unbanning FGM
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Le Niger crée une école du pétrole et du gaz
NNPC Plans Replacement of over  5,000km Dilapidated Pipelin
The Pride by Ojiudu Foundation Supports Female Empowerment
Petroleum Ministry Ends Retreat, Pledges to Implement Delive
Image showing Lumley street photography, this is a view of the Lumley Round about in Freetown Sierra Leone, January 28, 2019.
North Africa bears the brunt of Europe’s externalisation policies: Analysts
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South Africa bus crash kills 45 Easter pilgrims
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Game Fest Hackathon Concludes At Princess Sumaya University
FILE - Parents wait for news about the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga students in Kuriga, Kaduna, Nigeria, on March 9, 2024. Nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in northwest Nigerias Kaduna state have been released, the state governor said Sunday, March 24, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school.
Nearly 300 abducted schoolchildren released by gunmen in Nigeria, governor says
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