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SADC’s Youth Converge in Namibia for Region 5 Youth Games
Villager
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July 7, 2025
By: Hee-Dee Walenga The 11th edition of the African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Youth Games are currently underway, with Namibia as hosts, accommodating over 2,000 athletes and officials. The games were originally scheduled to take place...
Government uncovers illegal sugar supply practices
The Times Group Malawi
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July 7, 2025
Vitumbiko MumbaMinister of Trade Vitumbiko Mumba has disclosed that the government has intercepted hundreds of bales of sugar during a series of operations targeting illegal traders in border areas. According to Mumba, the operations, which...
FGM/C Ban Under Threat, Says Advocate
The Voice Gambia
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July 11, 2025
By: Binta Jaiteh Oumie Jagne, Senior Programme Officer at Think Young Women (TYW), has warned that growing political and cultural pressures are threatening The Gambia’s progress in protecting girls and women from Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting...
In Mozambique, The Gorongosa Coffee Project Means “Coffee For A Better Future”
Sprudge - Oregon
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July 8, 2025
In Gorongosa, in the southern end of the Great African Rift Valley in the heart of central Mozambique, coffee farmers sing a song that melodiously translates to “coffee for a better future”. Here on a mountain enrobed in rainforest, women walk...
Fast-growing Beira port to get private mobile network
TechCentral
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July 8, 2025
Terminal operator Cornelder de Moçambique will deploy a private mobile network in Mozambique’s fast-growing central port of Beira. Sedna Africa, a provider of industrial IT and connectivity solutions, has secured a landmark contract for a project...
Mozambique weighs joining African countries eyeing Chinese debt relief
Business Insider Africa
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July 6, 2025
Cash-strapped Mozambique is considering approaching China, its largest bilateral creditor, to restructure $1.4 billion in debt, President Daniel Chapo has revealed. Chapo stated that the government remains under great fiscal strain following...
Global Experts and Scholars Discuss Ecological Civilization: Green Transition and Multilateral Cooperation
Macau Business
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July 7, 2025
Guizhou, China, July 8, 2025 — On July 5, the 2025 Eco Forum Global Guiyang opened in Guiyang under the theme “Harmony Between Humanity and Nature: Jointly Promoting Global Green Transition.” The event brought together nearly 1,000 guests from 62...
UWC’s Dr Zakeera Docrat makes history
IOL
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In a landmark moment for South African academia and the continent, UWC’s Dr Zakeera Docrat has been elected to the Executive Board of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL). She is the first South African in the...
Full List Of African Countries Affected By 3-Month US Visa Validity
Naija News
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July 11, 2025
In a statement released by the US Embassy in Abuja on Tuesday, the American government announced that “most non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to citizens of Nigeria will be single-entry visas with a three-month validity period.” The...
Samora Machel’s vision for Mozambique didn’t survive: what h...
Modern Ghana
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Samora Moisés Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, was born in 1933 in Gaza province, in the south of the country. He died in an unexplained plane crash on 19 October 1986, in Mbuzini, South Africa. Authoritarian and popular,...
SADC PRESIDENTS & PRIME MINISTERS EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Zambian Observer
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July 6, 2025
SADC PRESIDENTS & PRIME MINISTERS EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS President Dr Lazarus Chakwera holds a PhD in Theology from the University of Trinity International University in the United States of America. He also holds a bachelor degree from...
Sedna to deploy mobile private network at Port of Beira to boost efficiency
Engineering News
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July 7, 2025
Industrial IT and connectivity solutions company Sedna Africa has secured a landmark contract to deploy a private mobile network at the Port of Beira, in Mozambique, which will significantly enhance safety, productivity and operational efficiency....
Tanzania affirms to broaden bilateral ties with Mozambique
Daily News Tanzania
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July 7, 2025
MAPUTO: ENHANCING long-standing historical ties heralded the official talks between Tanzania and Mozambique in Maputo, today, July 7, 2025. Tanzanian ambassador to Mozambique, Hamad Khamis Hamad, held official talks with the President of the...
Samora Machel’s vision for Mozambique didn’t survive: what has taken its place?
The Conversation
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July 7, 2025
Samora Moisés Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, was born in 1933 in Gaza province, in the south of the country. He died in an unexplained plane crash on 19 October 1986, in Mbuzini, South Africa. Authoritarian and popular,...
Beach Volleyball: Angola crowned SADC Zone 5 champion
Ver Angola
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According to a statement from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, which VerAngola had access to, the team won by two sets to zero. "The national women's beach volleyball team won the SADC Zone 5 champion title this Saturday, after defeating Zimbabwe...
TotalEnergies’ $20bn Mozambique LNG project gears up for restart
Offshore Technology
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July 7, 2025
TotalEnergies’ $20bn liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique is taking steps towards resumption, with companies involved beginning preliminary site preparations, Bloomberg has reported. The move comes four years after the...
Prebendal rule and the democracy challenge in Africa
Daily Trust
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July 11, 2025
The post 1990 return of democracy in Africa skipped many countries that had established successful dictatorships that stood firm. In Equatorial Guinea, the 82-year-old dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has been in power since 1979, making...
Mozambique: At least 2,500 jobs lost with end of USAID – minister
Macau Business
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July 4, 2025
At least 2,500 jobs have been lost in Mozambique with the cut in US foreign aid through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Mozambican government said on Thursday, admitting that this is “a problem” for the economy....
Reparations, justice and the 2025 Africa Anti-Corruption Day
The Cable
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July 11, 2025
The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AUCPCC) was adopted on 11 July 2003, during the 2nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Maputo, Mozambique. To affirm the continent’s commitment...
What is Sinology?
IOL
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Why is the Knowledge of Sinology Essential to Studies of China-Africa Cooperation? The present article aims to highlight the role and impact of China-Africa cooperation studies through the light of Sinology studies 汉学 (Hanxue). In essence the...