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How to save the 10,000 animals and plants hurtling fastest towards extinction World-first assessment of Critically Endangered species maps path to save more than 10,000 animals and plants from extinction
South Africa Today
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June 27, 2025
Scientists have outlined the steps world leaders must take to save the world’s most threatened animals and plants from extinction. In the first ever assessment of its kind for all 10,443 species categorised as Critically Endangered by the...
The road too often travelled
Winnipeg Free Press
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June 18, 2025
Opinion You have twenty minutes or less. Pack a small bag, but hurry! You (and your family) must run, in order to live. Go! Now! Whether it is wildfire or war, a natural disaster or one created and fuelled by people, this is the reality for...
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...
30 Unhappiest Countries In The World in 2025
Insider Monkey
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This article looks at the 30 unhappiest countries in the world in 2025. The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford recently published the World Happiness Report 2025. Finland took the number one spot yet again, marking eight years...
UK Government 'dishonest broker' says Christian Aid
Church Times
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June 26, 2025
THE British government has exposed itself as a “dishonest broker” when it comes to tackling the global debt crisis, Christian Aid has said. In a briefing on the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), which began in...
Poverty rising, aid falling: UN summit confronts crisis of global solidarity
Malay Mail
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June 28, 2025
PARIS, June 28 — The United Nations summit on financing for development gets underway Monday in Seville under a grim cloud: multiple conflicts, humanitarian crises and the shock disengagement of the United States. Here is an overview of the...
Who is Jimmy Chin? From finding Sandy Irvine’s boot on Everest to making movies with Alex Honnold and summitting Meru
Advnture
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June 28, 2025
Jimmy Chin’s talents seemingly know no bounds. His adventurous career makes a mockery of the perception that you have to focus entirely on one pursuit in order to master it. Where Chin is concerned, it’s a case of Jack of all trades – master of...
Border fencing, unnecessary distraction
Daily Trust
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June 23, 2025
On Tuesday, June 3, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, said at a forum in Abuja that Nigeria’s deepening security crisis demands the construction of fences along the country’s borders with its four neighbours – Cameroon,...
Otumfuo speaks on war in DR Congo, Somalia, Sudan during King Mswati's visit
GhanaWeb
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June 28, 2025
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called on countries embroiled in conflict on the African continent to make peace reign. He stated that the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Chad, and Sudan do not reflect well on the...
ISIS remains contained: No sign of strategic revival in Iraq and Syria
Shafaq News
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Shafaq News Despite its territorial defeat in Iraq and later in Syria, ISIS continues to exploit security vacuums and volatile geographies to stage sporadic attacks, particularly across remote border regions and rugged terrains. While the...
The world’s nine best (and five worst) countries for a road trip
WAtoday
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July 3, 2025
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size This article is part of Traveller’s Holiday Guide to the world’s greatest road trips.See all...
AU-IBAR Leads Drive to Safeguard Donkeys With New Continental Strategy
Capital FM Kenya
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June 26, 2025
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Jun 26 – Africa has taken a major step toward safeguarding the future of its donkey population, as leaders, experts, and stakeholders from across the continent gather in Abidjan for the Second Pan-African Donkey Conference...
Things to do in Metro Detroit, July 4 and beyond
The Voice - Michigan
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July 3, 2025
On sale now • Aziz Ansari: Aug. 16, Fisher Theatre, Detroit, LiveNation.com, ticket prices vary. • Detroit Gospel Legends: Oct. 31, Fox Theatre, Detroit, featuring Fred Hammond, Marvin Sapp, the Clark Sisters, Deitrick Haddon, Carvin Winans, Byron...
Nigeria’s Governance Gap Widens as Ungoverned Areas Multiply
HumAngle
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June 27, 2025
The spate of insecurity in Nigeria is turning many local communities into ungovernable spaces. As the secular government withdraws from these communities, terrorist groups expand their influence, consolidate authority, and accumulate illicit...
Why a jihadist takeover of a Sahelian capital is unlikely
Institute for Security Studies
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Why a jihadist takeover of a Sahelian capital is unlikely Despite a recent surge in terrorist attacks, the region is more at risk of fragmentation than centralised jihadist rule. Published on 17 June 2025 in ISS Today By Djiby Sow Senior...
ANALYSIS: Why jihadist takeover of a Sahelian capital is unlikely
Premium Times
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June 17, 2025
Insecurity has risen sharply in the Sahel in recent months. Between late May and early June, major attacks claimed by Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) targeted various locations in...
Benue attacks: Another option
The Sun Nigeria
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June 26, 2025
The recent horrific killings in Benue State, especially in the Yelwata area of the state shocked many Nigerians, including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who rushed to the state to see things for himself and sympathise with the traumatized people....
Buni Appoints Kori as Honorary SA on International Relations
Daily Trust
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June 13, 2025
Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has appointed renowned international development expert, Dr. Sa’id Alkali Kori, as Honorary Special Adviser on International Relations and Development. Dr. Kori will also serve as Technical Advisor to the Lake...
Displacement: Stakeholders Calls For Action as Nigeria Hosts Over 3.5 Million IDPs
Daily Trust
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June 26, 2025
Nigeria is currently hosting over 3.5 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and more than 138,000 refugees and asylum seekers, according to the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI). The figures...
First congress of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing
Mongabay
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June 24, 2025
Participants at the world’s first global congress of Indigenous and local communities from forest basins seek to increase direct financing to community forest conservation. Community-led organizations are scaling up and creating their own funding...