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West Africa: Europe's Migration Deals in the Sahel Must Be Revised

All Africa 28 Nov 2023
As instability in the region grows, the EU's faltering strategy with partner countries should be adapted ....
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Leveraging technology to curb exam malpractice

Business Ghana 28 Nov 2023
In fact, hundreds of thousands of students’ results are frequently being withheld or cancelled by different examination bodies in West Africa as a result of their involvement in various forms of examination malpractices ... The state of facilities in most public schools across West Africa is worrisome.
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South African envoy comments on Israel-Hamas truce

Russia Today 28 Nov 2023
South Africa’s Ambassador to Russia Mzuvukile Maqetuka commented on the Israel-Hamas hostilities and Russia’s grain deliveries to Africa in an exclusive interview to RT on Monday ... According to Maqetuka, South Africa has always maintained good relationships with both Israel and Palestine.
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Dubai International Chamber Launches Seventh Representative Office in Africa During ‘New Horizons’ Trade Mission to ...

Tyler Morning Telegraph 28 Nov 2023
The office was inaugurated during the chamber’s ‘New Horizons’ trade mission to West Africa, which saw a delegation of 15 Dubai-based companies participate in specially arranged business forums in Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire to learn more about the local business landscapes and explore partnership opportunities.
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Impala Platinum halts some S.African mines after 11 workers died

Independent online (SA) 28 Nov 2023
Impala Platinum on Tuesday temporarily halted operations at its Rustenburg mining complex in South Africa after 11 workers died and 75 were injured in what the CEO said was "the darkest day" in the company's history ... All mining operations at the Rustenburg complex in South Africa's North West province were suspended on Tuesday.
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11 miners killed in elevator incident in South Africa: local media

Xinhua 28 Nov 2023
28 (Xinhua) -- Eleven miners have died in an elevator incident on Monday at an Impala Platinum mine in Rustenburg, North West Province of South Africa, local media reported Tuesday ... in South Africa.
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Sierra Leone attacks were a failed coup, a minister says, as 13 officers are arrested

Moosejaw Today 28 Nov 2023
Coming months after Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio was reelected for a second term in a disputed vote in June, a coup attempt in the West African nation further raises political tensions in West and Central Africa ... West Africa's regional economic bloc of ECOWAS — of ...
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Decline in pirate attacks should not let our guards down – Danish Ambassador 

Ghana Business News 28 Nov 2023
The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAPITC) also opened a two-day training on “Gender and Maritime Security in West Africa ... described as worrying emerging trends in the shift from geographical location of piracy incidents from West Africa to Central Africa.
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Attacks on Sierra Leone barracks and prisons were failed coup, minister says, as 13 arrested

Killeen Daily Herald 28 Nov 2023
Coming months after Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio was reelected for a second term in a disputed vote in June, a coup attempt in the West African nation further raises political tensions in West and Central Africa ... West Africa's regional economic bloc of ECOWAS — of ...
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Impala Platinum halts work at some S.African mines after 11 workers died

Reuters 28 Nov 2023
The company said all mining operations at the sprawling Rustenburg complex in South Africa's North West province had been suspended on Tuesday ... South Africa recorded 27 fatal mine accidents by September this year, according to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
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India will press ahead with IMEEC despite challenges, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Gulf News 28 Nov 2023
... might and geographic position as a gateway between the East and the West, and the diversity, scale, and untapped human capital of Africa's markets, there is every reason to work together to achieve our common goals of bringing about sustainable and rapid economic prosperity.”.
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From gifts to gratitude

B & FT Online 28 Nov 2023
Over 1,500 people attended the event on the Temple grounds, and thousands viewed the programme throughout West Africa on-line via YouTube and Facebook ... Hinckley visited Ghana and announced that a temple – the first in West Africa – would be built in Accra.
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Niger coup leaders repeal law against migrant smuggling

Business Ghana 28 Nov 2023
Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani has since declared himself the new head of state ... Following the coup in the summer, the EU suspended all security co-operation with the landlocked country in West Africa ... It is not yet clear how the European bloc will respond to what is a huge blow to its strategy for managing migration flows from Africa ...   ... .
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Niger repeal of anti-migration law applauded as one less ‘colonial fetter’

Al Jazeera 28 Nov 2023
Over the years, experts and analysts criticised the law, among other things, as an overbearing influence of the West on Africa, and civil society organisations pushed for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court to declare it illegal ... the West African country.

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