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Time to save our vanishing wetlands
Zimbabwe Independent
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THE opening of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP15) in Victoria Falls marks another significant milestone in global wetland conservation efforts. While the conference theme...
Bringing the hopes of young South Africans to the Jubilee
Vatican News
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July 23, 2025
A bishop and young person from South Africa share how young people have been preparing to attend the Jubilee of Youth in Rome from July 28 to August 3, despite challenges and issues. By Isabella H. de Carvalho “We’ve already started packing our...
Pressure mounts on US Fed chief Powell in tee-up to GDP, jobs data
The Straits Times
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July 27, 2025
WASHINGTON – US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues will step into the central bank’s boardroom on July 29 to deliberate on interest rates at a time of immense political pressure, evolving trade policy, and economic...
Daughter of woman murdered by man who US deported speaks out: ‘He was denied due process’
The Guardian
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July 27, 2025
The daughter of a woman murdered by a man from Laos who is among those controversially deported from the US to South Sudan has spoken out about her family’s pain but also to decry the lack of rights afforded to those who were expelled to countries...
Trump’s third-country deportations: What they are and where migrants have been sent
Washington Examiner
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July 21, 2025
President Donald Trump deported five people to Eswatini last week, part of his administration’s policy of third-country deportations.“Third country,” a term used to describe Eswatini, refers to a country that agrees to accept immigrants who are...
President to officially open COP15
The Sunday Mail (Zimbabwe)
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July 24, 2025
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to officially open the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (COP15) in Victoria Falls, a landmark event for Zimbabwe and the global environmental community....
Why you should visit – and stay in – Johannesburg’s Soweto
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 23, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
The Supreme Court may have entered a new phase. Call it the emergency era.
Christian Science Monitor
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July 21, 2025
Throughout its history, the U.S. Supreme Court has evolved as an institution. Now, it may be evolving once more. Call it the emergency era. The court once worked out of a basement room in Congress, and the justices traveled the country to...
Africa as Dumping Ground for Unwanted
This Day
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July 20, 2025
Global Wastes: From Rwanda to Eswatini Bola A. Akinterinwa Africa, in the strategic calculations of the more developed countries, is a dumping ground for their toxic wastes and e-wastes. Africans themselves do not see this as a source of their...
Continuing the Legacy of the Casablanca Summit
Modern Ghana
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Her Excellency Ambassador Imane Ouaadil, Ambassador of the Royal Kingdom of Morocco, and Dean of African Ambassadors and High Commissioners in Ghana, recently shared with me an iconic photograph from the 1961 Casablanca Summit, capturing a...
From KGB Cells to Alligator Alcatraz: How Authoritarians Normalize the Grotesque
The Nation
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July 25, 2025
During a recent trip to Tallinn, I visited the horrific manifestations of an unredeemable totalitarian regime. A similar system is unfolding in Trump’s America. Ad Policy Beds are seen inside a migrant detention center, dubbed “Alligator...
Map Shows Foreign Countries Where Migrants Are Being Deported
Newsweek
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July 16, 2025
The United States is now sending more immigrant deportees to countries other than their home nation, after the Supreme Court lifted a ban on the Trump administration's efforts. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday said it had sent...
Trump White House Further Exposes Its Racism and Ignorance During Visit by Five West African Leaders
News Ghana
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July 23, 2025
Liberian President Joseph Boakai was asked about his English-speaking capability while his country was established by the United States in 1847 Geostrategic Review Five heads-of-state from West African countries were invited to the White House to...
Huge delays in payouts to miners with silicosis and TB
Eye Witness News
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“Every day, I pray that people may have compassion for my family and give us something to eat, as we always run out of food,” says Nonkolelo Jijingubo, of Virginia. The 56-year-old mother of three is one of thousands of claimants who are losing...
US deports immigrants from Jamaica, Cuba, and other countries to the African kingdom of...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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In a late-night post on X on Tuesday, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the five men sent to Eswatini, who are citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos, had arrived on a deportation plane. She said they were...
UPSC Current Affairs Pointers of the past week | July 14 to July 20, 2025
The Indian Express
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July 21, 2025
UPSC Current Affairs Pointers brings you essential current affairs of the past week, every Monday, to aid you in your Prelims and Mains preparation of UPSC, State PCS, and other competitive examinations. Events — Union Minister of Youth Affairs &...
Speaking CHamoru: A Guam man’s journey home through language and legacy
Prism
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July 17, 2025
Michael Lujan Bevacqua didn’t always feel like he understood what it was to be CHamoru. Although Bevacqua was born on Guam, he spent most of his life in California, Hawai’i, Oregon, and Swaziland. CHamoru, or Chamorro, is used to identify the...
African Craftspeople Journeyed Long Distances to Obtain Perfectly Colored Stones
Archaeology - New York
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July 16, 2025
Natural outcrop of green chalcedony in the Mgwayiza Valley, Eswatini LOBAMBA, ESWATINI—Thousands of years ago, it was so essential that craftspeople in southern Africa had just the right colored stone to make their tools that they regularly...
US sends third-country deportees under secrecy to small African kingdom
WNDU - Indiana
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July 16, 2025
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
Why Ignoring Procurement Costs More Than You Think
CFO Dive
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