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Counting the Cost: Can Pakistan Afford to Mentor Somalia’s Navy?
Can Pakistan Afford to Mentor Somalia’s Navy? Photo : Times Now The question that lies, quiet yet corrosive, beneath the Memorandum of Understanding between Pakistan and Somalia is not of capability but of capacity. Can a state, that is burdened...
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Brazilian President Lula plans to visit Bangladesh
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United News of Bangladesh
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has expressed his interest in visiting Bangladesh in the coming months, hoping it would strengthen ties between the two nations. President Lula made the announcement during a meeting with Chief Adviser...
Owner: Enayetullah Khan
AU’s Somalia peace mission cannot deliver on funding pledges alone
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Institute for Security Studies
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AU’s Somalia peace mission cannot deliver on funding pledges alone Without a predictable financing mechanism, the mission remains trapped in a cycle of insecurity, mounting arrears and political instability. The governments of Somalia and the...
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Media Executives Praise China’s Belt and Road Initiative as a Lifeline for Global Development
Basildon Peta Media executives from around the world have hailed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — through which China has been funding key infrastructure projects globally — as a better alternative to programmes by...
Owner: Basildon Peta
To graduate or not to graduate: Nepal faces dilemma over LDC upgrade
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The Rising Nepal
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Kathmandu, Oct. 12: Amidst the estimated 3-5 per cent loss to the economy due to arson and vandalism of the public and private property and businesses during the Gen-Z movement in September this year, and fear of poor economic performance,...
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Sanctions-hit Nayara scrambles to sustain operations, with govt's help
Since late August, two or three trains of 50 tanker cars have been shipping fuel each day from Nayara Energy's refinery on the coast of western India to inland depots - more than double its previous usage of railways to move diesel and petrol....
Owner: Sahu Jain Family
Sanctions-hit Nayara scrambles to sustain operations, with New Delhi's help
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Zawya
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NEW DELHI - Since late August, two or three trains of 50 tanker cars have been shipping fuel each day from Nayara Energy's refinery on the coast of western India to inland depots - more than double its previous usage of railways to move diesel and...
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Why Great Nicobar project is crucial for India in Indo-Pacific Great Game
On the same day President Trump lamented on Truth Social that “we have lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest China”, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, on an official visit to New Delhi, appreciated India’s interest in joint naval...
Owner: Mukesh Ambani
"Large-scale fruit planting is currently underway in Ethiopia"
A delegation of Ethiopian exporters led by the Ethiopian Horticultural Producers and Exporters Association visited Fruit Attraction for the first time. Tewodros Zewdie, executive director of the association, shares his impressions of this premiere...
Owner: Pieter Boekhout
On Borrowed Roads: Rediscovering Jasper
Writer Troy Nahumko has penned a reflective journey into impermanence and resilience with his tribute to Jasper National Park. // Bob Covey “Returning to Jasper this summer, I found myself rerooting, as an Albertan who spent most of my adult life...
Owner: Raven Community Media
KEMRI Announces Major Partnership With US Billionaire Bill Gates
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has announced a Ksh516 million flagship project that aims to elevate women's health research on the continent. In a statement on Saturday, September 11, the institute said that the three-year Gates...
Owner: Robert Ndungu
'Breath-taking' Lake District town ranked the most romantic to visit in the UK
Known for being the 'home' to the famous poets of the romantic era, it's not hard to see why. William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey and John Ruskin were hugely affected by their surroundings. But one place may have been the...
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[African Migrant Arrivals to Yemen Surge by 27% in September, IOM Reports
Aden — Yemen continues to serve as a key transit point for migrants from the Horn of Africa, despite ongoing conflict and humanitarian challenges. According to the latest Flow Monitoring Report issued by the International Organization for...
Owner: Jamal Al-Awadhi
Africa has ‘unlimited’ solar potential. Off-grid power could help light up the continent
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Yahoo News
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Globally, more than 660 million people still lack access to electricity — and 85% of them reside in sub-Saharan Africa. Washikala Malango was one of these people. Malango was born and raised in Baraka, a village on the shores of a vast lake in the...
Owner: Apollo Global Management
FOCAC at 25: The China-Africa journey
At the turn of the 21st century, precisely between October 10 and 12, 2000, the first ministerial conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Beijing, following earlier consultations. Nearly 100.ministers from China and 44...
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African peace and security dialogue: Media and controversial soundbites
One of South Africa’s challenges appears to be the relentless creation of controversial soundbites and scant broadcasting for mere story-selling rather than providing ethical journalism and informing the citizens. The Thabo Mbeki Foundation hosted...
Owner: Mail & Guardian Media (Pty) Ltd
Africa’s ‘great green wall’ is stalling: in Senegal very few...
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Modern Ghana
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Africa's Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometre-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the trees to extend for 6,000 kilometres through 11...
Owner: Kwame Owusu
‘Every day feels like firefighting’: Hit by EU sanctions over Russian oil - Indian refinery Nayara Energy struggles to sustain operations
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The Times of India
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Nayara Energy's refinery has intensified its railway usage, dispatching two to three trains daily. (AI image) Nayara Energy, the Indian refinery with major Russian ownership, is scrambling to sustain operations after being hit by European Union...
Owner: Sahu Jain Family
New university branches to target region’s skills gaps
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University World News
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EGYPT The Egyptian higher education sector is expanding regionally with the establishment of several new branch campuses across Africa, adding to its existing three, while it also has plans to venture into the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia,...
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Africa’s ‘great green wall’ is stalling: in Senegal very few planted areas show progress
Africa’s Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometre-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the trees to extend for 6,000 kilometres through 11...
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