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🇳🇬 Dangote Refinery Launches $1.6 Billion IPO in Africa’s Biggest Share Sale
Nigeria’s Dangote oil refinery is preparing a $1.6 billion initial public offering that would value the refinery at about $47 billion, in what Reuters reports would be Africa’s largest stock-market listing. The planned November listing marks a major stage in the development of the Lagos-based refine…
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🇬🇭 Ghana Garden and Flower Show Highlights Green-Economy Opportunities
The 14th Ghana Garden and Flower Show has opened in Accra with a focus on horticulture, floriculture, environmental sustainability and green enterprise. Vice-President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang highlighted opportunities across production, transportation, storage, standards, finance and mar…
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Trayon White Bribery Trial Opens in Washington, D.C.: Cash, Secret Recordings and a Fight Over Government Contracts
WASHINGTON, D.C. — September 16, 2026 The federal bribery case against D.C. Councilmember Trayon White Sr. has entered its trial phase, more than two years after his August 2024 arrest. Prosecutors allege that White accepted cash payments in exchange for using his position as a D.C. Councilmember to influence government officials and contracts. White has…
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🇳🇬🇨🇳 China Supplies Nearly 40% of Nigeria’s Imports in First Half of 2026
Nigeria imported N11.01 trillion worth of goods from China in January-June 2026, making China the source of 39.27% of Nigeria’s total imports during the period.
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🇺🇸 NBC News Helicopter Crashes in Los Angeles While Covering Deadly Bus Collision
LOS ANGELES — A helicopter belonging to NBC News crashed in Los Angeles on Tuesday while a news crew was covering a deadly bus collision, killing at least three people and leaving two others hospitalized, according to initial reports. The helicopter had been operating in the Los Angeles area as journalists covered the aftermath of…
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🇬🇭 When Martin Luther King Jr. Came to West Africa: Liberia, Ghana and the Birth of a New Nation
By Panafrican.email MONROVIA / ACCRA — March 1957 Before Martin Luther King Jr. became one of the world’s most recognized advocates of civil rights, he was already beginning to see the African liberation struggle as part of a much larger story about freedom. That connection became personal in March 1957, when King and his wife,…
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🇺🇳 UN Probe: Foreign Support and Drones Are Transforming Sudan’s War
A United Nations fact-finding mission says foreign weapons, military technology, fighters and logistical networks are helping sustain Sudan’s war and increasing the ability of both sides to conduct long-range drone strikes. Reuters reported that the UN mission said more than 1,000 people were killed in drone strikes during the first five months of…
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🇳🇪 Niger’s August Coup Attempt Exposes Pressure Inside the Sahel Security System
Niger’s government said it regained control of a key airbase after mutinous soldiers attacked positions in Niamey, highlighting internal military pressure alongside the country’s wider fight against jihadist groups. Reuters reported that Nigerien forces, backed by Russian paramilitary personnel, retook the airbase after the August 29 mutiny. The i…
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🇪🇬 THE DUSÉ MOHAMED ALI PRINCIPLE: Build the African Information Network
Before social media, Pan-African journalism was already trying to solve the same problem: Who controls the story? Dusé Mohamed Ali understood the strategic importance of African-centered publishing and international networks. The lesson for the digital era is obvious: information infrastructure is political infrastructure. THE NEW AFRICAN PRESS A modern Pan-African publication should not simply reproduce…
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🇲🇱 🇳🇪 🇧🇫 THE RELIGION OF THE BATTLEFIELD: When Faith, Identity and War Become Entangled
Before the first drone rises, a story has usually already been written. Who are we? Who are they? What land is ours? Who betrayed us? Who has authority? What does God require? What does history remember? Those questions can become more powerful than weapons because they create the emotional architecture through which people understand violence.…