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Sierra Leone Customs Officers Complete AfCFTA Trade Training
News Ghana
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August 28, 2025
Sierra Leone customs officials completed a three-day capacity building programme focused on implementing trade rules under both ECOWAS and continental African trade agreements. The training workshop in Freetown concluded yesterday as part of...
ECOWAS meeting discusses financing fight against terrorism
Panapress
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August 28, 2025
28 august 2025 - 14:03:25 MA/BBA 313 Views Panafrican News Agency Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Experts from the Ministries of Finance and Defence of member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday began a...
Gunmen kill four villagers in Ivory Coast near Burkina Faso border
Punch
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August 26, 2025
Unidentified armed men have killed four villagers in northeastern Ivory Coast near Burkina Faso, while another remains missing following the west African country’s first such deadly attack since 2021, the army said Tuesday. Ivory Coast shares a...
Burkina Faso Moves Up Bagre Dam Release, Ghana Communities on Alert
News Ghana
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August 25, 2025
Burkina Faso’s national power company has accelerated plans to open the Bagre Dam floodgates, prompting Ghana’s Water Resources Commission to issue urgent warnings to downstream communities along the White Volta River. SONABEL began opening the...
Nigeria bans exports of raw shea nuts used for cosmetic products to help grow local economy
102.3 KRMG - Oklahoma
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August 28, 2025
LAGOS, Nigeria — (AP) — Nigeria's government has banned the export of raw shea nuts, an essential raw material in many cosmetic products, in a bid to grow the country into a global supplier of refined shea butter and other skincare ingredients....
Africa Intelligence Brief Comprehensive News Roundup For August 29, 2025
MENAFN
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August 30, 2025
(MENAFN- The Rio Times) On August 29, 2025, Egypt widened an online crackdown with arrests of teen TikTok creators, underscoring a tightening grip on speech. Kenya reported a rise in inflation, highlighting price pressures across East Africa....
Burkina Faso suspends Bill Gates-backed malaria funded initiative
Business Insider Africa
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August 24, 2025
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation announced the decision on Friday, ordering the immediate termination of the Bill Gates funded 'Target Malaria' project activities. Facilities containing the mosquitoes were sealed on August...
Burkina Faso says no to Bill Gates’ plan of creating modified species of mosquitoes
Business Insider Africa
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August 23, 2025
In a statement published on Friday, officials urged Target Malaria, the initiative's principal NGO, to halt "all activities" in the nation. “All samples will be destroyed according to a strict protocol,” Samuel Pare, chief official at the higher...
Business : Senegal Calls On Malaysian Companies To Invest And Use It As Gateway To Africa
Bernama
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August 26, 2025
By Rosemarie Khoo KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 (Bernama) -- Senegal is inviting Malaysian companies to invest and form strategic partnerships in the West African nation as part of its ambition to become Malaysia’s gateway to Africa, which has a huge...
Europe on Alert: Sahel Terror Networks Threaten the Continent
EUToday
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August 30, 2025
7The Sahel has long been a region of fragile states, ethnic tensions, and recurring humanitarian crises. Today, it stands as one of the most pressing security concerns for Europe. An article in DEFENCE MATTERS.EU this morning warns that from Mali...
"The Dutch market continues to show strong demand for Ivoirian coconuts"
Fresh Plaza
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August 27, 2025
European demand for coconuts from Côte d'Ivoire has been low over the past month, but this has been offset by strong demand in West African markets, according to Nestor Beugre, CEO of Ivoire Agri. The grower says, "As every year, we had a busy...
How Putin’s shadowy ‘private army’ is waging a second ‘ghost war’ thousands of miles from Ukraine
The U.S. Sun
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August 30, 2025
THOUSANDS of miles from Ukraine's bloody frontline, Vladimir Putin is quietly waging a brutal second war in the desert. In a vast lawless region plagued by coups, terrorism and insurgencies, the Russian tyrant is wrapping his war-hungry tentacles...
Burkina Faso: Traoré Bans Bill Gates’ Controversial Project
Malawi 24
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August 23, 2025
Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso’s president, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has announced a decisive ban on the controversial project backed by Bill Gates, which introduced genetically modified mosquitoes that critics say are making malaria-carrying...
West Africa Approves Food Standards to Combat Malnutrition
News Ghana
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August 30, 2025
West African economic leaders have endorsed new regional quality standards for fortified foods, aiming to tackle widespread malnutrition while boosting trade across the 12-member bloc. The Economic Community of West African States approved...
Brentford have lift off courtesy of Burkina Faso star
The Voice
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August 24, 2025
BRENTFORD have lift off to their Premier League season at the second attempt with a scrappy 1-0 win over a lacklustre Aston Villa at the Gtech Community Stadium, reports the Voice of Sport. It was hardly a contest for the ages, but it will live...
Morocco’s Atlantic Strategy Charts New Course for Africa’s Economic Integration
Morocco World News
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August 27, 2025
Rabat – Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita said on Tuesday in Rabat that King Mohammed VI’s vision places the sea at the center of Morocco’s development, continental connection, and sovereignty. At the opening of a seminar on...
Burkina Faso to begin spillage of Bagre Dam on August 27
Modern Ghana
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The government of Burkina Faso has confirmed that controlled spillage from the Bagre Dam will commence on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, to prevent the dam from exceeding its maximum capacity. In a statement issued on August 22, and signed by Kindo...
Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré: conservative anti-democratic despot or anti-imperialist hero?
LINKS
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August 22, 2025
First published at Amandla!. Amandla! sent a series of questions to Rahmane Idrissa. Here are the questions and his answers. Ibrahim Traoré came to power in a coup in 2022. What was the situation in the country that led to the coup? Traoré came to...
MSCI adds seven SL stocks, expands frontier market coverage
Daily FT
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The MSCI Sri Lanka Index expands from five companies to 12 in latest quarterly review SL sees highest number of additions with Vietnam among 13 country indexes New additions: GUAR, DIMO, JAT, KHL, RIL, PARQ, and VFIN New additions join JKH, COMB,...
Kyambogo transforms milk into economic gold for women, youth
Observer
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August 27, 2025
In response to plummeting milk prices in Uganda’s cattle corridor, Kyambogo University has launched an ambitious value addition initiative aimed at turning excess milk into high-value products and improving livelihoods. The campaign, implemented...