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Tanzania needs more Arajigas to save its football from collapse
The Citizen
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In the financial records of football clubs across Europe, players are listed as assets, and their services are valued in the same way as physical property. As with any asset, their worth depreciates over time — especially as contracts draw to a...
Macron's Indian Ocean diplomacy faces colonial contentions
Le Monde
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France's President Emmanuel Macron, alongside France's Health and Care Access Minister Yannick Neuder and French Overseas Territories Minister Manuel Valls, visit French military servicemen of the RSMA unit in Saint-Benoît on the French overseas...
Tanzania’s meat export volumes rise by 5.75%
Food Business Africa Magazine
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June 3, 2025
TANZANIA – Tanzania has seen its meat export volume grow by 5.75 percent this financial year, increasing from 9,326.3 tonnes to 9,863.41 tonnes, according to figures from the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries. This rise in both the quantity and...
GEF Council approves innovative work program
Global Environment Facility
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A wide-ranging Global Environment Facility work program approved on Monday will support a new “Lemur bond” for biodiversity and resilience in Madagascar; scale up efforts to remove mercury from skin creams and the production of non-ferrous metals...
Zanzibar sees success in advanced cardiovascular care
Daily News Tanzania
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April 15, 2025
ZANZIBAR: ZANZIBAR’s management firm, Showtime, has noted remarkable success in the just concluded CARDIOTAN 2025, a groundbreaking scientific program conference dedicated to tackling cardiovascular complications. This prestigious held in Zanzibar...
Tanzania’s meat exports rise by 5.75 percent to $44 million
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. Tanzania has recorded a steady 5.75 percent increase in meat exports in the current financial year, rising from 9,326.3 tonnes to 9,863.41 tonnes, according to the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries. The growth in both volume and...
Mubadala and Canadian pension fund invest in India's infrastructure investment trust
The National News
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Mubadala Investment Company, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investor, and the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, a Canadian pension fund, have become anchor investors in Cube Highways Trust, an infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) in...
Let’s help clear Zim debt: Outgoing AfD
The Zimbabwe Mail
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May 30, 2025
Akinwumi Adesina: ‘Africa cannot be sitting on massive resources and [remain] poor.’ © Nipah Dennis/AFP/Getty Images AFRICA and the world should appropriately support Zimbabwe to clear its arrears as has been done for other nations, outgoing...
Mass Schengen Visa Rejections: African Countries Top Rejection Rates in 2024
Tunisie Numerique
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May 28, 2025
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Despite ongoing rhetoric about a strengthened Euro-African partnership, the reality of the data paints a stark picture: in 2024, several African countries recorded the highest Schengen visa rejection rates,...
French Senate to vote on post-cyclone 'refoundation' bill fo...
Modern Ghana
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Legislators in France's upper-house are preparing to inject nearly €4 billion into Mayotte as part of a sweeping plan to tackle the territory's deep-rooted social, economic, and security challenges. The French Senate is poised to approve a...
Tanzanians in diaspora send home Sh2.1 trillion in sixth months
The Citizen
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Dodoma. Tanzanians living abroad sent home over Sh2.1 trillion in remittances during the first half of the current financial year 2024, highlighting their growing contribution to the national economy, the government revealed on Wednesday....
Trump remittance tax to hit Africans hard
Deutsche Welle
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May 28, 2025
For Enoch Aikins, a political economist who focuses on Africa, the topic of sending money home to relatives is personal. "I can use myself as an example, as somebody that comes from a typical village with a lot of people in my village or in my...
Khaled attends MBZUAI’s commencement ceremony
Gulf Today
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May 29, 2025
Sheikh Khaled Bin Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has attended the 2025 commencement ceremony of Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). The...
Using AI for Scalable, Accelerated Fraud Detection in Financial Services
Banking Dive
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Open call: Concerts SA Mobility Fund 2025
Music in Africa
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May 27, 2025
The call is designed for artists who want to tour in the Southern African region between 15 July 2025 and 15 October 2025. Music industry professionals from all genres may apply for support of reasonable costs up to a maximum of R45 000 (about $2...
Top 10 African countries that have received the least aid from the U.S. in 2025 despite USAID ban
Business Insider Africa
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April 8, 2025
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long been a key player in assisting development projects throughout Africa with an emphasis on sectors including health, education, economic growth, and humanitarian aid. However,...
Status quo, reaffirmed
NOW Lebanon
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May 19, 2025
🔊 Listen to Post Israel says it has launched first stages of Operation Gideon’s Chariots and moves to seize territory, Palestinians commemorate the Nakba’s 77th anniversary amidst starvation, mass exodus and ongoing bombings, Trump lifts US...
Maybe Money Can't Buy Happiness, But It Can Buy Longevity...
Zero Hedge
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How long you live depends a lot on where you’re born... Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao illustrates this phenomenon in the above map, which uses 2025 life expectancy at birth projections from the UN World Population Prospects published last year....
Islamic Corporation For The Insurance Of Investment And Export Credit (ICIEC) Insurance Cover Unlocks EUR250 Million For Infrastructure And Trade Growth In Six African Member States
MENAFN
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May 24, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) ALGIERS, Algeria, May 23, 2025/APO Group/ -- The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) ( ), a Shariah-based multilateral insurer and member of the Islamic Development...
Former JCA, USF basketball standout Andriana Acosta looking to help athletes transition
Shaw Local - Illinois
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On the surface, the life of a professional athlete seems pretty sweet. They get to play a game they love, travel to interesting cities and countries to perform in front of adoring fans and get paid to do it. But when it’s time to hang up the...