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Smuggling thrives at porous Ghana-Burkina Faso borders
The Herald Ghana
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June 30, 2025
By Ibrahim Abode, Bawku Municipality Ghana-Burkina Faso border points have proved convenient conduits for the illegal movement of large volumes of cargo either way across them, a media investigation has established. On any given day, there is a...
Burkina Faso: one year after Serge Oulon’s abduction, RSF presses Senegalese ambassador on missing and forcibly conscripted journalists
Reporters Without Borders
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At a press conference organised on 13 May by the Burkina Faso embassy in Senegal and Senegalese MP Guy Marius Sagna to show support for Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s leader, Ambassador Saïdou Maïga said that “the doors of the embassy”...
Burkina Faso Criticised Over Silence on Missing Journalist
News Central TV
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June 25, 2025
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has denounced the Burkina Faso ruling military junta for its “unacceptable silence” on the disappearance of journalist Serge Oulon, who went missing more than a year ago. The press freedom organisation has formally...
Ethiopia: Musical performances move Great South Festival
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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June 28, 2025
The headquarters of the Organization for Southern Cooperation, sponsor of the event under the theme “Peoples in Movement, Living Cultures,” will host the fusion of rhythms that has attracted a large audience from both local and international...
False claims that Burkina Faso detained French spy go viral online
Euronews
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Published on 16/05/2025 - 10:28 GMT+2 AI-generated videos falsely claiming a French woman was arrested for espionage in Burkina Faso have spread virally online, triggering a wave of disinformation. The videos claim to show Claire Dubois, a French...
NOMA’s ‘New African Masquerades’ Has Much to Tell Us About Identity and Engagement
The New York Observer
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June 30, 2025
An installation view of “New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations” at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Photo: Sesthasak Boonchai, , courtesy of the New Orleans Museum of Art Long before Judith Butler wrote about the...
Revolution Without Reform: The Semiotics of Sovereignty in Burkina Faso
African Arguments
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June 25, 2025
Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and...
TCL poised to capture West African market with latest cutting-edge electronics
Business and Financial Times
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June 30, 2025
Chinese-owned global electronics giant TCL, with a significant footprint in Ghana over the past decade, has officially launched its expansion into the West African market. The company is also set to introduce a dynamic new line of innovative...
Republic Bar & Grill Marks 13 Years with Burkina Faso Solidarity Concert
Joy FM
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June 24, 2025
Accra’s Republic Bar & Grill will celebrate its 13th anniversary this year with a special Burkina Faso Solidarity Concert under the theme ‘Sound & Spirit across Borders’. Founded in 2012 in Osu, Republic has grown from a local bar into a cultural...
Russia’s Foothold in Africa: Wagner’s Legacy and the Rise of the African Corps in Mali (18+)
SouthFront
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June 30, 2025
Support SouthFront Illustrative Image The sands of Mali have become a battleground where Russia’s influence is being cemented through fire and steel. After three and a half years of relentless counterterrorism operations, the Wagner Group declared...
EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Media Team Implodes, WhatsApp Group Disbanded Over Internal Wrangling, Anti-Tinubu Sentiments
Sahara Reporters
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The WhatsApp group of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s media team has been quietly dissolved following internal wrangling fueled by rising anti-Tinubu sentiments—especially from former presidential aide Lauretta Onochie—and deepening factional...
Tabreed teams up with CVC DIF to buy Abu Dhabi’s PAL Cooling in $1bn deal
The National News
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The UAE's National Central Cooling Company − also known as Tabreed − is boosting its presence in the country by teaming up with Netherlands-based fund CVC DIF to acquire Abu Dhabi’s PAL Cooling in a Dh3.8 billion ($1.03 billion) deal. As part of...
The goal of eliminating malaria by 2030 is in jeopardy
Africa.com
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June 30, 2025
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, June 16, 2025 /African Media Agency (AMA)/ – Africa could see 554,000 additional malaria deaths due to climate change, unless urgent action is taken. The goal of eliminating malaria by 2030 is in jeopardy, as climate...
Burkina Faso and Russia sign the final document of their electronuclear program
Business Insider Africa
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June 19, 2025
The agreement, managed by Russia's state-owned atomic energy business Rosatom, paves the way for broad collaboration between the two nations in the construction of nuclear infrastructure for peaceful reasons. Burkina Faso's Minister of Energy,...
Alliance of Sahel States puts on show of unity through inaugural games
Africanews
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June 30, 2025
From June 21 to 28, 2025, Mali capital Bamako hosted the first edition of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) Games. Over the course of a week, more than 500 professional athletes from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger competed in football, traditional...
The Ones to Watch at Paris Men’s Fashion Week Spring 2026
WWD - New York
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June 25, 2025
PARIS — Showing how perfect the imperfection of handwork and process can be, a laboratory to showcase Brazil’s vibrant culture and a creative potential that’s not fully tapped yet, a designer’s love for textile and a multihyphenate creative’s...
Traoré Gives Onana Warm Welcome in Burkina Faso
News Central TV
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June 19, 2025
Burkina Faso’s leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, and Cameroonian goalkeeper André Onana of Manchester United exchanged compliments during their meeting in the West African nation. Onana travelled to Burkina Faso for a charity event organised by the...
Media reports more African nations face US visa prohibition
MENAFN
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June 19, 2025
(MENAFN) The United States intends to widen its controversial travel restrictions to citizens from 36 additional countries, with 25 of them located in Africa, according to an internal State Department memo reported by The Washington Post over the...
A Battle for Humane Consciousness in a War Against Truth: Exposing the Dark Arts of War
Dissident Voice
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June 30, 2025
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of...
Amitabh Sharma | Ethical Fashion Initiative – elevating traditional crafts to haute couture
The Gleaner
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June 22, 2025
There have been conversations and, of late, they are gaining momentum, on the dark side of fashion. Beyond the glitz and arc light, couture’s ugliness is raising concerns worldwide – from clothes being mass produced in sweatshops in the narrow...