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318 Forum - Louisiana
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Categories with more than five winners indicate a tie. Best Local College BPCC Centenary College LA Tech University LSUS Northwestern State University-Shreveport Best Local Theater East Bank Louisiana Grandstand Robinson Shreveport Little Theatre...
Smartwings expands winter operations from Prague with 5 new routes (including Brussels) and more flights
Aviation24.be
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June 12, 2025
Smartwings will significantly expand its Prague operations starting October 2025. Under the new winter schedule, five new destinations will be added: Brussels, Barcelona, Porto, Bucharest, and Rome. Additionally, flight frequencies to Paris and...
African Island States Advance Ocean Partnerships And Finance Innovation At United Nations (UN) Ocean Conference
MENAFN
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June 23, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) In a high-profile gathering during the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), the African Island States Climate Commission (AISCC), in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the...
33 new books you’ll want to read this summer from independent publishers
Orange County Register - California
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June 24, 2025
It’s the perfect time of the year to celebrate our independents. By that, we mean independent presses — the small publishers powered by literary true believers, committed to putting out curated works that challenge the mainstream, and that are too...
Understanding the first 160 days of Senate Foreign Relations Committee on African affairs and global health policy
Mail & Guardian
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June 23, 2025
Is there partisan agreement on the strategic priorities for African affairs and global health policy among the majority members? A rapid review suggests that there has been a significant shift in the strategic priorities on African affairs and...
"Beijing Summit: China-Africa Cooperation Outcomes"
Sada Elbalad
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June 11, 2025
Press ReleaseIn September 2024, the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was successfully held, opening a new chapter of China and Africa building an all-weather community with a shared future for the new era. President...
Starlink rolls out its high-speed internet service in Lesotho, now in 24 African countries
Technext
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June 23, 2025
Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has officially launched in Lesotho. The rollout follows the granting of a 10-year operating licence on April 14, 2025, by Lesotho’s communications regulator, enabling...
‘National Carrier, If Established, ‘ll Buoy Devt of Tourism in Nigeria’
This Day
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June 23, 2025
Chinedu Eze Travel and aviation experts have declared that for Nigeria to realise its full potential in tourism, it must establish a national carrier to buoy the sector. The experts spoke at the just concluded Aviation Summit 2025 conference...
Flutterwave boosts Cameroon’s businesses with 34th country licence
Technext
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June 23, 2025
Flutterwave has officially launched its digital payment services in Cameroon after securing a Payment Service Provider licence from the Central Bank of Central African States (BEAC). This milestone, achieved through a technical partnership with...
MedCruise Concludes 66th Assembly in Cartagena
Cruise Industry News
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MedCruise, the Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports, successfully concluded its 66th General Assembly in Cartagena, Spain. According to a press release, the event celebrated both the ongoing growth of cruise tourism in the Mediterranean and...
Airways Aviation Signs LOI For 16 Elixir Trainers
Aero-News Network - Florida
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June 20, 2025
Elixir Aircraft announced at the 55th Paris Air Show that UAE-based Airways Aviation has signed a Letter of Intent, or LOI to acquire 16 of the 4th generation Elixir Training Aircraft, bringing enhanced safety and improved versatility to its fleet...
Team Nigeria unveils squad for 23rd African Fencing Championships
Premium Times
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June 22, 2025
The Nigeria Fencing Federation has announced a 12-member squad for the 23rd African Fencing Championships, scheduled to take place at Charterhouse Lagos from 25 to 29 June. This marks only the third time the continental tournament will be hosted...
Here's why an unusually warm Gulf of Mexico could be an open buffet for tropical cyclones
Austin American-Statesman - Texas
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Any hurricane or tropical storm threatening Houston or the Texas coastline draws power from the heat energy stored in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Just two weeks into the Atlantic hurricane season, we’re already seeing especially high...
RIFC to keep one PawSox tradition alive — fireworks
The Blackstone Valley Call & Times - Rhode Island
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June 20, 2025
PAWTUCKET – McCoy Stadium now may be mere ashes and dirt after being demolished this spring for a new unified high school, but officials with Rhode Island FC are determined to keep one revered Pawtucket Red Sox tradition alive: The annual Fourth...
When Skilled Workers Go Abroad, Their Home Countries Experience ‘Brain Gain’
Yale Insights
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June 12, 2025
A third of doctors trained in Ghana now live abroad, as do 91% of Ethiopian-born PhD holders and two-thirds of graduates from the top Canadian software engineering programs. Statistics like these have long prompted concerns that large, rich...
A raggedy ferry ride into forgotten, dark history
The Economic Times
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June 21, 2025
I recently spent an entire week in the country where I live. Didn't go anywhere, didn't even fly. Flying less than once a week always struck me as somewhat improbable. Now that I am back on the road again, I realise that there is no avoiding home...
Is Trump planning an ‘Africa visa ban’?
Al Jazeera
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June 20, 2025
United States President Donald Trump could significantly expand his travel ban list in the next few weeks to include 36 more countries, 26 of which are in Africa, US media reports say, citing internal government documents. With 10 countries...
AFRICA-EUROPE PARTNERSHIPS' new forms
Business Ghana
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The Sub-Saharan Component of the AFRICA-EUROPE PARTNERSHIPS FOR CULTURE programme represents an ambitious cultural cooperation initiative between Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. With an €8 million budget over 42 months, this Component forms part of...
US warns of expanded travel ban that could affect key African markets
ICEF Monitor
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June 19, 2025
"The United States is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration early this month," reports The Washington Post. The...
Angola proposes former minister Fátima Jardim as new Executive Secretary of the CPLP
Ver Angola
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Maria de Fátima Monteiro Jardim, a graduate in biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, who was vice-president of the Council of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), representing Africa, a position...