Category: International Business & Finance
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🇬🇲🇬🇭Gambia tells Ecowas Parliament over 600 at risk of statelessness in Ghana Town
Presenting The Gambia’s report to the Ecowas Parliament 2025 First Ordinary Session in Abuja, Hon. Alhagie S. Darboe, on behalf of the Gambian delegation revealed that approximately 94% of the more than 600 residents are at significant risk of statelessness at a small town called Ghana Town in The Gambia. He opined that this is…
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🇺🇸🇭🇹 Erik Prince Is Back in the Game — This Time in Haiti
The Haitian government has formally contracted Erik Prince—founder of Blackwater and longtime Trump ally—to conduct lethal drone and ground operations against gangs threatening to overrun Port-au-Prince, The New York Times reports. Drone Strikes Since March: Prince’s team has been operating drones for months, reportedly killing over 200 people. No high-value gang targets have been confirmed…
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Visa denied: African travellers hit hard by soaring Schengen rejections
Each Schengen visa application costs €90 (around $100), regardless of the outcome. That’s a non-refundable fee that must be paid even when the application is rejected, often with minimal explanation. According to analysis by the LAGO Collective, Africans lost an estimated €60 million ($67.5 million) in 2024 alone through rejected applications. That’s money spent not on travel, but on bureaucracy and silence.…
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Va. Rep. Gerry Connolly dead at 75
Gerry Connolly, who was first elected to Congress in 2008 and represented Virginia’s Congressional District 11, which includes parts of Fairfax County as well as Fairfax City, died Wednesday at 75. In a statement to WTOP, his family said he died “peacefully at his home this morning surrounded by family.” “He was a skilled statesman…
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How to Win Followers and Scamfluence People
Format Boy makes a living teaching Yahoo Boys, notorious West African scammers, how to use AI and deepfake technology to ensnare their next victims. AS SOON AS Format Boy answers the phone, I recognize his booming voice. I’ve spent weeks immersed in the influencer’s back catalog of videos and voice notes. Format Boy isn’t like other…
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Aviation Sector Aims to Become Economic Hub With Airport Special Economic Zones
Harbel — The Liberia Airport Authority (LAA), in collaboration with the Liberia Special Economic Zones Authority (LSEZ), has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to establish the nation’s first Airport Special Economic Zones (ASEZ) at Roberts International Airport (RIA). The agreement, signed Thursday at RIA in Margibi County, marks a significant step in the Liberian…
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School districts hit with extortion attempts months after education tech data breach
The attempted extortion has so far targeted schools in Canada and North Carolina. One of the largest providers of education tech paid off hackers so that they wouldn’t publish tens of millions of children’s personal information. But school districts are facing extortion attempts anyway. The company, PowerSchool, missed a basic cybersecurity step, according to a…
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United States: Trump administration offers illegal immigrants $1,000 to “self-deport”
Paying immigrants to leave the United States. This is just the latest step in Donald Trump’s mass deportations plan. The Trump administration announced on Monday that it will offer $1,000 to migrants who are in the US illegally, if they decide to leave the country. The American government will also pay for migrants’ travel assistance…
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How Cocoa Beans Beat Bitcoin: The Sweetest Investment of 2024
How Cocoa Beans Beat Bitcoin: The Sweetest Investment of 2024 In a surprising turn of events, cocoa beans—humble seeds that fuel the global chocolate industry—have outshined Bitcoin as the best-performing commodity of 2024. While the world watched Bitcoin smash records, briefly soaring past the $100,000 mark in December, cocoa quietly made an even bigger leap.…
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Documentary Review: Malcolm X (1978) by Gil Noble – A Timeless Pan-African Chronicle
Reviewed for Pan African News Blog Gil Noble’s 1978 documentary Malcolm X, produced for Like It Is on WABC-TV in collaboration with McGraw-Hill Films, remains one of the most compelling and comprehensive portraits of the revolutionary leader. Noble, a pioneering Black journalist, crafts a gripping narrative that not only chronicles Malcolm X’s life but also…
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