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Bill Gates predicts Lagos will become world’s largest city
Daily Post
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June 6, 2025
Microsoft Co-Founder, Bill Gates has expressed optimism about Africa’s future, predicting that Lagos, Nigeria’s economic hub, will become the world’s largest city. Gates described the city’s projected growth as a reflection of Africa’s rising...
Woman hyped as truck driver sister drives by to greet her in township in TikTok video
Briefly
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June 6, 2025
A woman shared a video of her sister who put effort into greeting her while she was on her job, which requires her to travel The sisters shared a sweet moment in the TikTok video, which proved how much the siblings love each other Online users had...
Letter from Mideast: Chinese solar companies help power northern African countries towards sustainable goals
Xinhua News Agency
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by Xinhua writer Zhang Meng TUNIS, June 6 (Xinhua) -- About 155 km south of Tunisia's capital Tunis lies the historic city of Kairouan, where rows of photovoltaic brackets rise from the desert like a steel forest, adding a gleaming touch to this...
Liberia: President Boakai Joins AML CEO Lakshmi Mittal To Dedicate country’s first $1.8 Billion iron ore concentrator, one of the largest in Africa
Front Page Africa
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June 6, 2025
Timeline 2005: ArcelorMittal signs a 25-year MDA with the Liberian government, setting the stage for iron ore mining operations. By Emmanuel Weedee-Conway, [email protected] 2006: ArcelorMittal Liberia Ltd. is formally created. 2011: ArcelorMittal...
Fears for Cape football should City get chop
Sowetan
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June 6, 2025
The Citizens will face Motsepe Foundation Championship teams Orbit College and Casric Stars in the promotional playoffs starting on Wednesday. If they win they will retain their Premiership status after finishing in 15th place in the Betway...
Town Planners call for ban on plastics use in stores, markets
Daily Trust
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June 5, 2025
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to celebrate the World Environment Day, (WED), which holds every June 5, the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) has called on the Federal government to ban the use of plastics as packaging materials...
Thukzin confirmed for Deep In The City 2025
Namibian Sun
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June 6, 2025
SAVE THE DATE: Deep In The City, a staple on Windhoek’s social calendar, announced earlier this week that South African DJ and producer Dlala Thukzin will be one of the headliner... If you are an active subscriber and the article is not showing,...
Celebrating Africa Day in Tauranga
SunLive
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June 6, 2025
Tauranga Historic Village in 17th Ave will be coming alive with a colourful celebration of vibrant music, dance, food, and culture as the city celebrates Africa Day 2025 on June 7. From 11am-5pm this Saturday, a free, family-friendly event will...
Climate justice in Africa: The legal fight for the poor
NewsDay Zimbabwe
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Climate justice in Africa is not a theoretical argument for summits and policy documents, Botha believes. File pic ACROSS Africa, climate change is not a future peril. It is a present tragedy. Amy Botha writes that in the charred villages of Chad,...
'It takes a village to raise a concert series'
The Telluride Daily Planet - Colorado
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Presented by the Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association (TMVOA) for the past 25 years, the Sunset Concert Series is back this summer showcasing 11 shows, from June 11-August 27 at a new, smaller venue – the Conference Center Plaza (CCP) in...
Africa File, June 5, 2025: JNIM Offensive Across the Sahel; IS Somalia Down but Not Out; IS Central Africa Targets Uganda; IS Mozambique Threatens US and Western LNG Projects
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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Beyond manipulations: Africa and her future
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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June 5, 2025
Nearly 50 years after Nigeria’s charismatic former Military Head of State, the late General Murtala Muhammed, warned from the hallowed rostrum of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU), in 1976 that “Africa has come of age...
Carnival Calabar: NEXHUB takes fiesta to China-Africa Economic Expo 2025
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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June 5, 2025
Launched in 2004, Carnival Calabar was envisioned as more than just a festival. It was a bold cultural renaissance, an effort to define and export Nigerian identity through pageantry, storytelling, and spectacle. Over the years, it has become one...
Addressing Earth Observation data barriers in Africa with Di...
Modern Ghana
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One of the biggest obstacles to harnessing Earth observation (EO) data is the immense time, cost, and expertise required to transform raw satellite imagery into actionable information. Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) has set out to eliminate this...
Africa Day celebrations held in two towns
East Anglian Daily Times
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The annual event, marking the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963, aims to promote African heritage, unity, and progress. BME Suffolk and BME West Suffolk, aiming to raise awareness of Africa Day in the community, organised...
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped: He worked as a chaplain in Alaska and wanted to help Boko Haram victims in Nigeria
Fides
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June 5, 2025
Diocesi di Fairbanks Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I was able to speak with Father Afina. He is well and in good health. We hope he can be released soon," said John Bogna Bakeni, Auxiliary Bishop of Maiduguri (capital of Borno State in northeastern...
City of Joburg mayor Dada Morero insists ‘Bomb Squad’ appointment is not a sign of weakness
IOL
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City of Joburg Mayor Dada Morero has denied that appointing the 'Bomb Squad', a team comprising ANC- and EFF-linked members, former city managers, and executives, indicates weakness or a failure to address the city’s ongoing challenges. Earlier,...
Maryland woman fears going to African home country amid Trump's travel restrictions
NBC 4 - Washington D.C.
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June 5, 2025
A Maryland woman says she's fearful of going to see her family in Sierra Leon after President Donald Trump announced a travel ban and restrictions targeting mostly African and Middle Eastern countries. “Though I grew up here, my heart is in Sierra...
Elon Musk’s controversial Starbase city rises in Texas, but critics raise alarm on pollution, zoning and ‘colonisation’ of sacred land
Malay Mail
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June 6, 2025
STARBASE (Texas), June 6 — Elon Musk has a long way to go before colonising Mars, but the controversial billionaire already has his own city on a flat patch of Texas, where giant, experimental Starship rockets roar over the incongruous sight of...
This Tiny Caribbean Fishing Village Has Stunning Beaches, World-Class Food and a Famous Alter Ego
Caribbean Journal
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June 5, 2025
You may know the tiny fishing village of Deshaies in Guadeloupe for its alter ego: Saint Marie, the fictional island in the popular BBC series “Death in Paradise,” in which a series of UK-based detectives are sent to solve crimes in the heart of...