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Austerity over Ambition: Experts Slam Ethiopia’s New Budget as IMF-Driven Burden
The Reporter Ethiopia
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June 14, 2025
The government’s new 1.93 trillion Birr federal budget—its first since signing a USD 3.4 billion agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank last May—is drawing sharp criticism from economists and financial experts who warn...
Tinubu Sends Shettima To London To Visit Ailing Buhari In Hospital
Naija News
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July 11, 2025
Former media aide to Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, had earlier dismissed claims that the former Nigerian leader was critically ill and in the Intensive Care Unit. He explained that Buhari was indeed ill but was on his way to recovery. He insisted that the...
Teen's journey from fleeing home and life in care to meeting with the King
Wales Online
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July 10, 2025
Adey, 17, now living in Cardiff, has faced challenges most of us could never imagine. Born in Eritrea, East Africa, she was forced to flee her home at a young age. Initially settling in Ethiopia, she was once again forced to leave. Her journey to...
WOMEX 2025 Update: Full Showcase and Club Summit Lineups Announced for Tampere
World Music Central
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July 11, 2025
Piranha Arts, the organizers of world music expo WOMEX, have announced the full list of Jury-selected Showcase artists and Club Summit performers for the 31st edition of the event, set to take place this October in Tampere. The current program...
40 years after Live Aid: Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, John Oates and Bob Geldof reflect
MLive - Michigan
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July 11, 2025
By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good — helping to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause it might...
Live Aid at 40: Hope, hype and hard questions
Deutsche Welle
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July 11, 2025
"It's 12 noon in London, 7 a.m. in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for Live Aid." This television announcement on July 13, 1985, heralded over 16 hours of music that united close to 2 billion people across over 100 countries. Live Aid...
Tinubu secretly sent Shettima to visit Buhari in London hospital
Nigerian Eye
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July 11, 2025
President Bola Tinubu deployed his deputy, Vice-President Kashim Shettima, to visit former President Muhammadu Buhari in a London hospital on Monday, sources privy to the development disclosed. The former president has been ill for a while, as...
Trump Admin Announces Major Visa Restrictions for Four Countries
Newsweek
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July 11, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration has announced strict new visa restrictions for Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria. The new policy limits nearly all non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to nationals of these four African...
HOW GAMBIA MISSED THE CAF PRESIDENCY IN 1988
The Standard Gambia
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July 11, 2025
- Advertisement - Omar Sey chose country over continental football leadership In August 1987, Yidnekatchew Tessema of Ethiopia, a founding member of the Confederation of African Caf, and its president from 1972, died. Before his death Tessema had...
Rwanda invests USD500 million more in Bugesera Airport as it promotes an African sporting nirvana
Routes
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Rwanda's new Bugesera International Airport is a teenager already - and it hasn't even been built yet. The government has been forced into a further USD500 million cash injection in it for this fiscal year, supported by a Development Bank loan,...
Set on enriching lives and driving change: Inside MultiChoice’s ESG Strategy
IOL
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As Africa’s leading entertainment platform, MultiChoice is setting a bold benchmark for corporate citizenship, not only on screens, but in communities across the continent. With the release of its 2025 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)...
Tinubu sent Shettima to visit Buhari in London hospital – Report
Business Day
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July 11, 2025
President Bola Tinubu sent his deputy, Vice-President Kashim Shettima, to visit former President Muhammadu Buhari in a London hospital on Monday, according to The Cable. The former president has been ill for some time, as first reported by...
Cop Who Defied Shooting Order Refuses Transfer to Todonyang
Kenyans.co.ke
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July 11, 2025
Police Constable Hiram Kimathi has refused to comply with a transfer order after opposing a 'shoot order' issued by his superiors. Kimathi, on his social media page, stated that he was transferred from Kyumbi Police Station, near Machakos...
Nigeria has ‘enough problems’ and can’t take deportees from US, minister says
Capital FM Kenya
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July 11, 2025
Nigeria’s foreign minister says the country will not bow to pressure from the Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees from the US, following visa curbs and threats of tariff hikes. Yusuf Tuggar told privately-owned Channels TV that...
Sources: Tinubu secretly sent Shettima to visit Buhari in London hospital
The Cable
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July 11, 2025
President Bola Tinubu deployed his deputy, Vice-President Kashim Shettima, to visit former President Muhammadu Buhari in a London hospital on Monday, sources privy to the development have informed TheCable. The former president has been ill for a...
Soccer tournament draws thousands to Federal Way
Federal Way Mirror - Washington State
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July 10, 2025
Federal Way Memorial Stadium was bursting with the sights and sounds of soccer enthusiasts and the vibrant red, yellow and green of the Ethiopian flag for the weeklong 42nd annual tournament. The Ethiopian Sports Federation of North America...
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...
Askari Metals Expands Gold Footprint in Africa with Nejo Project Acquisition | All Ordinaries
Kalkine Media
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July 11, 2025
Highlights,Askari Metals acquires Nejo Gold Project located within Ethiopia’s Arabian-Nubian Shield,Historical drilling revealed visible gold at DNA target among ten key exploration zones,Company to begin trenching and drilling after digitising...
Askari Metals Expands African Presence with Nejo Gold Project Acquisition | ASX 200
Kalkine Media
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July 11, 2025
Highlights,Askari Metals (ASX:AS2) secures the Nejo Gold Project in Ethiopia,Project situated within the Arabian-Nubian Shield near major gold operations,Focus now shifts to data digitisation and upcoming trenching and drilling work,Askari Metals...
Free Tadios Tantu: Stand Against Injustice and Support His Release
Zehabesha
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July 10, 2025
July 10, 2025 The Habesha #FreeTadiosTantu is more than just a hashtag; it’s a rallying cry for justice. Tadios Tantu, a respected 85-year-old historian and author, has been unjustly detained in Ethiopia for his unwavering stance against...