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South African doctor offers ‘pay what you can’ healthcare for all
Cape Town ETC
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July 10, 2025
In a world where quality healthcare often comes at a steep price, one South African doctor is breaking barriers and offering hope to those in need. Dr Paulo de Valdoleiros, popularly known as the Walk-In Doctor, opened a groundbreaking clinic in...
EDITORIAL | Trump tariff tactics are a jolt to jump ship
Times LIVE
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The writing is on the wall: South Africa must look beyond the US as its most stable economic trading partner 11 July 2025 - 04:30 The letter addressed to President Cyril Ramaphosa by US President Donald Trump announcing 30% punitive tariffs...
Poor governance offsetting reform gains in Africa – World Bank
Business Day
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July 10, 2025
… warns against lagging service delivery, weak transparency eroding trust Despite isolated progress in fiscal discipline and digital transformation, poor governance is eroding reform gains across Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Bank’s...
Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) Road Engineers And Transport Experts Conduct Working Field Visit To Dakar-Diamniadio-Thies Highway & Dakar Ter
MENAFN
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July 10, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The ECOWAS Commission, as part of the final technical review workshop for the Praia-Dakar-Abidjan Corridor Technical Studies, conducted Regional Road Engineers and Transport Experts drawn from ECOWAS Member States to a day's...
Lekki Port Eyes 500,000 TEUs in 2025, Ramps Up Transshipment to West Africa
This Day
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July 11, 2025
Oluchi Chibuzor The $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Seaport is fast establishing Nigeria as a maritime hub for West and Central Africa, with expanded international transshipment operations to key regional destinations including Togo, Benin Republic,...
Box overboard! World Shipping Council’s 2025 report shows increase in lost cargo with conflict around major shipping lanes
JD Supra - California
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July 10, 2025
The World Shipping Council (“WSC”) recently released its Containers Lost at Sea Report 2025 compiling global data on cargo lost at sea from the previous year and promoting loss prevention recommendations for the maritime industry and governing...
Malawi’s Alex Chakhota set to shine at African Aviator Legends tourney
The Maravi Post
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July 10, 2025
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi’s very own Alex Chakhota has been named the country’s representative at the prestigious African Aviator Legends tournament, following his impressive win at the Aviator Legends Tournament in Malawi. Chakhota’s...
China earns praise for Africa's green transition
China Daily
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Vegetable seedlings grow at the China-Africa Green Technology Park in Mauritania. SI YUAN/XINHUA As momentum builds around green finance and climate cooperation between China and Africa, experts are emphasizing the significance of mutual...
Report stresses the need for Effective Service Delivery in Africa.
The New Dawn Liberia
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July 11, 2025
MONROVIA, July 11, 2025 – The World Bank’s annual Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report for Sub-Saharan Africa, released Thursday, reveals that despite a stable average CPIA score for the region, there is an urgent need for...
US President’s confidence appears unfounded after militants sink two vessels on critical Red Sea shipping route
The New Zealand Herald
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July 11, 2025
The attacks – broadcast to the world in slick Hollywood-style videos – have once again led to traffic dropping and insurance costs surging in one of the world’s main marine arteries. Between November 2023 and December 2024, the Houthis targeted...
Promoting West Africa through Travel, Trade
This Day
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July 11, 2025
Recently West African leaders met in Abuja for the inauguration of West African Economic Summit where Nigeria pushed for the removal of structural and policy bottlenecks in travel and trade in order to boost economic growth of the sub-region....
Lekki port trans-shipment operations increased over stronger naira, says deputy MD
The Cable
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July 10, 2025
Daniel Odibe, the deputy managing director of the Lekki deep seaport says its trans-shipment operations have increased substantially due to a stronger naira. Odibe spoke during an interactive session with journalists in Lagos on Thursday. He said...
Rwanda invests USD500 million more in Bugesera Airport as it promotes an African sporting nirvana
Routes
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Rwanda's new Bugesera International Airport is a teenager already - and it hasn't even been built yet. The government has been forced into a further USD500 million cash injection in it for this fiscal year, supported by a Development Bank loan,...
African Continental Free Trade Area scheme: Scribe urges lawyers to play...
The Guardian Post
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This was on the side lines of a Business and Law Dinner hosted by the Cameroon Bar Association. Barrister Roland Abeng, President of the Organising Committee, said it was imperative for Mene to school lawyers on their role in the trade sector in...
Revolutionary Technology: How SPRIBE’s Aviator Redefined iGaming Through Innovation and Social Integration
The London Economic
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July 10, 2025
SPRIBE’s development of Aviator represents a convergence of advanced technology, social gaming principles, and user experience design that has established new benchmarks for the iGaming industry. Technological Foundation Drives Gaming Innovation...
Goal and Highlights Botswana 0-1 Nigeria in Women's Africa Cup of Nations
VAVEL
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July 10, 2025
July 10, 2025, 5:20 pm ET2 hours ago⏱️ 90'+ 20 The match ends The match ends, and the Nigerian national team takes the win after a great finish, taking home all three points from Week 2. The Nigerian team looked much better at times, and that's...
Adeniyi’s Customs reforms elevate Nigeria, amplify Africa’s voice at WCO
The Sun Nigeria
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July 10, 2025
By Uche Usim If there is one appointment made by President Bola Tinubu that gladdens stakeholders’ hearts, it is elevating Adewale Adeniyi to the position Comptroller-General at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in June 2023. While expectations...
Building Trust through Effective Service Delivery in Africa
GNN Liberia
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July 10, 2025
MONROVIA, July 10, 2025 – The World Bank’s annual Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report for Sub-Saharan Africa, released today, reveals that despite a stable average CPIA score for the region, there is an urgent need for...
Trump hails Africa’s mineral wealth
Kuwait Times
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July 10, 2025
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump hailed West Africa’s rich natural resources as he hosted five of its leaders Wednesday for a White House summit aimed at fostering trade to counter the growing influence of Russia and China. Trump’s...
Inside the cross-border network exposing the environmental crisis facing Africa’s longest river
Reuters Institute
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In 2017, inside a modest media nonprofit office in Kampala, Uganda, a collaboration between Ugandan journalist Fredrick Mugira and American journalist Annika McGinnis gave rise to InfoNile, one of Africa’s most ambitious environmental journalism...