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  • 🇬🇭 Ghana bans first-class travel for government officials

    🇬🇭 Ghana bans first-class travel for government officials

    Ghana’s President John Mahama has announced a ban on state-funded first-class travel for government officials, including cabinet ministers, as part of measures to reduce government spending. The directive was issued on Friday, February 7, during the swearing-in ceremony of 17 new ministers at the presidential palace in Accra. President Mahama emphasized that only essential travel…

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  • Isabel dos Santos: From Africa’s Richest Woman to Political Target?

    Isabel dos Santos: From Africa’s Richest Woman to Political Target?

    Isabel dos Santos, once celebrated as Africa’s richest woman and a pioneering entrepreneur, now finds herself at the center of a contentious legal and political battle. The Angolan tycoon, who is the daughter of former President José Eduardo dos Santos, claims the allegations of embezzlement and corruption leveled against her by the Angolan government are…

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  • Google Exposes GLASSBRIDGE: A Pro-China Influence Network of Fake News Sites

    Google Exposes GLASSBRIDGE: A Pro-China Influence Network of Fake News Sites

    Government agencies and non-governmental organizations in the United States have become the target of a nascent China state threat actor known as Storm-2077. The adversary, believed to be active since at least January 2024, has also conducted cyber attacks against the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), aviation, telecommunications, and financial and legal services across the world,…

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  • 🇧🇮 Burundi Assumes New Chairmanship of COMESA

    🇧🇮 Burundi Assumes New Chairmanship of COMESA

    The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini. Its 23rd Summit of Heads of State and Government is underway in Bujumbura, Burundi, where President Evariste Ndayishimiye has assumed the bloc’s leadership, taking over from his Zambia’s counterpart Hakainde…

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  • Nigeria: Russian Flags, Putin Chants At Protests Worry Tinubu & Military

    Protesters in Nigeria’s north were seen waving Russian flags and chanting slogans for Russian President Vladimir Putin as anger against the Bola Tinubu government grows. Russia distanced itself from Nigerian protesters waving Russian flags, saying it is not involved in the protests or coordinating them. Russia’s embassy in Nigeria said it does not interfere in…

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