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BRICS+ Series: Tackling the Global Water Crisis Through BRICS
IOL
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July 15, 2025
Understanding the BRICS Water Dilemma The global water crisis is no longer a distant threat but an unfolding reality. By 2025, an alarming 2.8 billion people, roughly 35% of the world's population, will face water scarcity. In the face of this...
‘It’s a labor of love’: Three-day Crave NW food festival is back this weekend
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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When thinking back 10 or 15 years ago, chef Adam Hegsted has strong memories of Spokane’s food scene. More accurately, the lack thereof. The number of chain restaurants far surpassed the number of independent restaurants. Restaurants that, like...
NBA superstar Kawhi Leonard to grace the 2025 Giants of Africa Festival
Citizen TV Kenya
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July 16, 2025
Two-time NBA champion and multi-time all-star Kawhi Leonard has been added to this year's star-studded lineup for the Giants of Africa Festival 2025, which is scheduled for July 26th - August 2nd, 2025. The LA Clippers forward will mentor youth...
ESX set to commence official trading next week, marking major financial milestone
Capital
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July 6, 2025
Ethiopia’s much-anticipated Securities Exchange (ESX) is poised to begin official trading next week, signaling a transformative moment for the country’s financial sector. Following successful pilot transactions conducted two weeks ago, the ESX is...
Live Aid was of its time - but it was a day we won't forget
Telegraph & Argus
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Live Aid was underway - and we’d always remember where we were when the opening riff to Rockin’ All Over the World started up. I was serving up sausage baps at the local bakery where I had a Saturday job. Live Aid was on the radio, it was history...
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...
Is Greece in the middle of a new refugee crisis?
Deutsche Welle
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July 16, 2025
The rhetoric being used is martial: Thanos Plevris, Greece's recently appointed migration minister, has called the influx of refugees across the Mediterranean an "invasion." Several lawmakers from the ruling New Democracy party have used the terms...
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...
Kasim Hafeez Speaks at PRIMER Lecture Series, Shares Journey from Radicalism to Zionism
Jewish Press of Tampa Bay Florida’s Gulf Coast
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July 14, 2025
PRIMER Lecture Series speaker Kasim Hafeez Last month, the Jewish Federation of Florida’s Gulf Coast welcomed Kasim Hafeez as part of its ongoing PRIMER Lecture Series, hosted at Congregation B’nai Israel in St. Petersburg. Hafeez, a former...
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,...
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...
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...
Live Aid: ‘We switched it off when Status Quo came on’
Gulf Today
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July 12, 2025
Forty years ago this weekend, two concurrent concerts were held in London and Philadelphia in aid of relieving a brutal famine that had taken hold of Ethiopia. The legend of Live Aid has grown exponentially ever since. But each retelling draws...
Bono reveals his 1 big regret from 1985 Live Aid performance: 'I can't look back'
New York Post
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July 13, 2025
The mullet’s not for everyone. In the new documentary “Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took on the World” documentary, Bono admitted that he regrets his hair choice during U2’s performance at Live Aid in 1985. “I can’t look back at this moment with...
35 countries arrive Nigeria for 3rd CAA U18/U20 African Athletics Championship
New National Star
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July 15, 2025
BY BEN OGBEMUDIA, in ABEOKUTA The stage is set for the third edition of the CAA U18/U20 African Athletics Championship, as 35 African countries have landed in Nigeria, gearing up for the continental showdown in Abeokuta. The latest...
Comms and Branding Insights with Samuel Owusu-Aduomi: World Shea Expo 2025: A bold branding blueprint to globalise the domestic shea industry
Business and Financial Times
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July 15, 2025
In recent years, global demand for natural, ethically sourced products have surged. From beauty counters in New York to skincare shops in Tokyo, consumers are increasingly conscious of what’s in their products—and where those ingredients come...
Iran urges easier admission of new members to BRICS Development Bank
Tehran Times
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July 9, 2025
TEHRAN – Iran’s Central Bank delegation at a BRICS finance summit in Brazil called for simplifying the admission process for new members to the New Development Bank (NDB), while emphasizing the bank’s role in financing infrastructure and...
Russia’s expanding role in Africa’s food security
Business and Financial Times
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July 15, 2025
By Kestér Kenn KLOMEGÂH As global geopolitical dynamics shift, Africa continues to recalibrate its economic partnerships, particularly with Russia. Following two high-profile Russia–Africa summits, cooperation in the area of food security emerged...
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...
A Giant Leap for African Unity: Kenya’s historic Visa-Free policy and the Trans African tourism and unity campaign
Joy FM
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July 15, 2025
Today, July 13, 2025, marks a historic milestone in Africa’s journey toward unity and free movement. Kenya has taken a bold and transformative step by eliminating all visa requirements and the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) for citizens of...