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World Refugee Day Workshop Spotlights Lived Experiences to Foster Empathy, Peacebuilding
The Washington Informer
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June 26, 2025
In just five years, there has been a significant rise in people forcibly displaced from their homes, surging from 81.5 million to 123.2 million since 2020, and as violence and persecution persists, 36.8 million individuals worldwide now live as...
Feeding Minds First: Rethinking the Place of Communication in Combating Malnutrition in Africa
Daily Trust
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June 26, 2025
By Milliscent Nnwoka Africa faces a grave nutrition crisis, one that statistics alone cannot solve. In Nigeria, 40% of children under five are stunted, and over 17 million people are food insecure (UNICEF, 2023; FAO et al., 2023; DHI, 2023)....
Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Must Not Suffer the Fate of Kizito Mihigo
Black Agenda Report
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Kizito Mihigo and Victoire Ingabire both challenged Rwanda's foundational genocide narrative. He died in jail, and she is now in custody. On June 19, Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was once again arrested in Rwanda. She and gospel...
Court reopens journalist Sandra Muhoza’s case
IFEX
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May 6, 2025
Burundian authorities are using procedural loopholes to stall Sandra Muhoza’s appeal, heightening RSF’s concerns of a calculated effort to prolong her unjust detention. This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 30 April 2025. Burundian...
Bujumbura : when the election campaign displaces pupils from classrooms
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, May 29, 2025 — As end-of-year exams approach, the atmosphere in several schools in Bujumbura—the commercial city where United Nations agencies and the central administration are concentrated—is far from studious. This...
EAC tables USD 109.3 million budget
Number One Citizen Daily
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June 26, 2025
By Yiep Joseph East African Community (EAC) has tabled estimated USD 109.3 for FY 2025/2026 budget. According to EAC secretariate, the budget was presented before the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) during sitting at the regional bloc...
Global Climate Risk Index Ranks 188 Countries by Vulnerability and Access to Finance
State of the Planet
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June 25, 2025
The Climate Finance Vulnerability Index ranks 188 countries according to both their vulnerability to hazards and their financial resilience. Researchers at the Columbia Climate School, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, have unveiled a...
CDF drops Maj Gen James Birungi from Mountain Division Command role
Independent (Uganda)
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June 26, 2025
UPDF picture of Maj Gen James Birungi. PHOTO URN Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) has removed Maj Gen James Birungi from his position as commander of the Mountain Infantry Division, just two months after his...
Jeremy Harding: Paths to Restitution
London Review of Books
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May 24, 2025
An hour into the galleries of the Africa Museum in Tervuren, on the outskirts of Brussels, you come to Tonga, a startling piece by Nada Tshibwabwa, a Congolese artist and musician. It’s made from recycled mobile phone waste and is roughly the...
Nation and world at a glance
The Vindicator - Ohio
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Oil rises, US stock futures slip as markets react to US strikes NEW YORK — The price of oil rose and U.S. stock futures fell as global markets react to the U.S. strike against nuclear targets in Iran. The price of Brent crude oil, the...
Planting hope and achievement in some of Africa’s most hostile refugee camps
New African Magazine
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June 25, 2025
An inspired programme set up in the teeming refugee camps in north Kenya is working with the youth and local communities to mitigate the devastating effects of climate change while acquiring invaluable lifestyle skills. Bamuturaki Musinguzi was...
'I can't believe I play with him': Team-mates heap praise on 'magnificent' Dungannon Swifts ace after magical Irish Cup final performance
The News Letter
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May 4, 2025
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now Gael Bigirimana produced a stunning Irish Cup final performance which left his Dungannon Swifts team-mates in awe with captain Dean Curry saying “I can't...
CECAFA Women Championship goes unnoticed as Simba-Yanga drama holds the nation hostage
Daily News Tanzania
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June 22, 2025
TANZANIA: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and all those spiritually held hostage by the never-ending national drama known as Simba vs Yanga… we need to talk. No, not about whether the latest derby will be played in a stadium, a courtroom, or...
'I just want to give God the glory' - Dungannon Swifts' Irish Cup winner Gael Bigirimana highlights importance of his faith
The News Letter
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May 3, 2025
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now Gael Bigirimana highlighted the power of his faith following a key role in Dungannon Swifts’ historic Irish Cup triumph over Cliftonville. The Swifts won...
This is the Mexican that Pope Leo XIV appointed as the new coordinator for his pastoral trips
Zenit
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June 25, 2025
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.24.2025).- The Vatican has named a new figure to oversee the complex and symbolic machinery behind papal travel: Monsignor José Nahúm Jairo Salas Castañeda, a Mexican diplomat within the Holy See’s Secretariat of...
Trump’s Quiet War On Black Migrants
NewsOne
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June 24, 2025
Source: Mario Tama / Getty A really close friend of mine, who is Ethiopian, has lived in New York City since she was 16. Now, in her mid-30s, she’s being threatened with deportation after making the city her home for more than half of her life....
Bujumbura : CNC president surprised by Bonesha FM’s silence following the assault on one of Its journalists
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, April 30, 2025 – A few days before the World Press Freedom Day, the President of the National Communication Council (CNC), Espérance Ndayizeye, publicly expressed her surprise at Bonesha FM’s silence following the...
The Case Against Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza
The Chronicles
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June 22, 2025
In the dim corners of encrypted chatrooms and behind the façade of ideological book clubs, a silent conspiracy was taking shape—one that aimed to paralyze the Rwandan state without firing a single bullet. From coded discussions about “nonviolent...
MF Brings Together 14 1st Ladies
Business Ghana
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Link to Live Stream of Inaugural Session of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative – MFFLI Summit 2025: https://apo-opa.co/3G1Afxo Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, conducted the 7th...
Cape Town seeks to evict Congolese refugees demanding resettlement in Canada
Zambian Observer
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June 24, 2025
Cape Town seeks to evict refugees demanding resettlement in Canada The City of Cape Town has filed court papers to evict approximately 264 refugees from tented camps in Paint City, Bellville, and Wingfield, Maitland, where they have resided since...