Category: Africa
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s Ports Under Pressure as Drug Trafficking Networks Target West African Trade Routes
Ghana’s ports are facing renewed scrutiny over their role in international narcotics trafficking following a series of high-profile drug seizures, highlighting the growing challenge of protecting West Africa’s commercial gateways from transnational criminal networks. As Ghana expands its role as a major maritime and logistics hub, the country’s ports connect West Africa to shipping routes…
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🇸🇩 RSF Captures Strategic Army Position in Sudan’s Blue Nile as Fighting Intensifies Along Ethiopian Border
BLUE NILE, SUDAN — Sudan’s war is opening another dangerous front along the country’s southeastern border, where the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied fighters have captured a strategic Sudanese army position near Kurmuk following days of heavy fighting. RSF forces said they seized Jabal Kadam, in the Bakori area east of Kurmuk, on Wednesday…
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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,…