Tag: Pan African Nations
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🇯🇵Anti-Immigration Uproar Forces Japan to End Africa Exchange Plan
Japan has scrapped a plan to promote cultural exchanges between regional cities and four African countries, after misinterpretations and disinformation sparked fears it would open the doors to mass immigration. The reversal came amid heightened focus on foreigners in Japan, just two months after a surge of support for anti-immigration party Sanseito in Japan’s upper…
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Ivory Coast: Growth Projected at 6.2% in 2025 (World Bank)
The World Bank projects that Ivory Coast’s economy will expand by 6.2% in 2025, continuing an impressive trajectory that saw average growth of 8.2% between 2012 and 2020. Key drivers remain hydrocarbons, mining, and services. Yet risks remain. Pre-election instability, climate pressures, and tighter financing conditions could affect investment flows. Poverty, while reduced from 55%…
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DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks
A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called RapperBot. Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, has been identified as the administrator of the service, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. The botnet has been used to carry out large-scale DDoS-for-hire…
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🇱🇷Coal Blast Rocks Bulk Carrier Off Baltimore
A Liberian-flagged coal carrier erupted in an explosion on Monday while transiting the Patapsco River near the demolition site of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. The 751-foot W Sapphire, which had just loaded coal at CSX’s Curtis Bay terminal, was beginning its voyage to Mauritius when the blast tore through the ship at around 6:30 p.m.…
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🇺🇸 Media: US decides not to hold Africa summit this autumn
The administration of US President Donald Trump does not intend to hold the US–Africa Summit in September 2025 due to a lack of time and the low priority of the African track in Washington’s foreign policy. This was reported by Jeune Afrique magazine, citing sources in the White House and the US Congress, as reported…
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🇺🇸 USAID officially shuts doors, American government announces
After six decades, the US Agency for International Development has been ended by the Trump administration. The closure is part of the administration’s crackdown on the federal government and was one of the prime targets of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The US Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act and President John F. Kennedy…
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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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Is an African pope a priority for the upcoming conclave?
Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first Asian or African pontiff, or a conservative or progressive. Although they come from 70 different countries, the 133 cardinals seem fundamentally united in finding a pope who will be able to make the 2,000-year-old church…
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Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ougadougou, on Wednesday in support of transitional President Captain Ibrahim Traoré.
With placards in hand and whistles blowing, they were angry over remarks made by the head of United States’ military in Africa, General Michaël Langley. Earlier this month, he accused Traoré of using the country’s mining resources to benefit the junta instead of the people. Burkinabé musician, Ocibi Joan, who came to the protest said…
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Feeding the Revolution: How the Black Panther Party Outpaced the U.S. Government in Serving the People
By Historical Wire Tap | Pan-African News Blog In the late 1960s and early 1970s, as Black communities across the United States struggled under the weight of poverty, police brutality, and systemic neglect, a new kind of revolution was taking place—not with guns, but with groceries. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, founded in 1966…
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