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“String Of Pearls”: China's Oceanic Gambit
MENAFN
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August 22, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) The so-called String of Pearls strategy, a metaphor coined in Western policy circles in the early 2000s, is far more than a shipping map. It's Beijing's blueprint for a chain of naval and port infrastructure stretching...
My OCD was spiralling out of control – and I set off to visit all 195 countries
The Guardian
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August 24, 2025
In May 2020, a month into the first Covid lockdown in Miami, Florida, 20-year-old student Cameron Mofid found his obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) beginning to spiral out of control. “I was first diagnosed with the condition when I was 12. It...
Meles Zenawi Legacy Why Ethnic Federalism Still Haunts Ethiopia
Zehabesha
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August 23, 2025
“#Tigray–#Tigrinya” history👇: In the early ’90s, the #Ethiopian Government fell into the hands of fascist anti-#Ethiopian #Adwa terrorists known as the #TPLF. The #TPLF led by Meles Zenawi claimed that #Ethiopia was an artificial state which...
Customs Commission’s delay on...
Capital Ethiopia
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August 24, 2025
The Ethiopian Customs Commission’s prolonged failure to approve the Origin Verification Guideline (OVG) has led to significant government revenue losses and reduced operational efficiency, according to a recent audit report. The draft guideline,...
Parroquia de Salem honra el 70º jubileo de la Hermana Pauline Fortin
The Boston Pilot - Massachusetts
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August 23, 2025
M -- La Hermana de Santa Chretienne Pauline Fortin fue al hospital por primera vez en su vida este año.\r\nLa hermana de 89 años se perdió el Triduo Pascual en la Parroquia de Santa Ana en Salem, donde ha adorado y trabajado como voluntaria...
Earth Versed: 10 New Poetry Books About Our Relationship With Nature
The Good Men Project - California
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August 24, 2025
By John R. Platt “I cannot keep you safe.” This recurring line in Primeval, Mai Der Vang’s powerful new poetry collection, doesn’t just echo through her book. Similar themes appear through many of this year’s new environmental poetry books. They...
China begins its Mieso-Dire Dawa Expressway
MENAFN
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August 21, 2025
(MENAFN) Work has commenced on the Mieso-Dire Dawa Expressway, a significant infrastructure initiative forming part of the Ethio-Djibouti Transport Corridor, in Dire Dawa, eastern Ethiopia. At the inauguration event, Ethiopian Deputy Prime...
Ethiopia’s Double Standard: Talking Peace on the Nile, Hinting Force on the Red Sea
Awate
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August 23, 2025
I was compelled to write this piece after hearing from a friend about a recent interview allegedly given by Bereket Simon, Ethiopia’s former Minister of Communication, on an Amharic-language radio station. Relying on my friend’s translation, I...
Infrastructure sharing deal to boost digital connectivity in three African countries
Biometric Update
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August 20, 2025
Two major telecommunications companies operating in Africa, Airtel Africa and Vodacom Group, have agreed to share common infrastructure in a collaboration that is expected to boost digital connectivity in some of their markets on the continent,...
Bridging the gap between teeming youth and skills deficit
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 19, 2025
Africa is a continent of contradictions, sitting between a growing young population, an army of unemployed youths and skill deficits to sustainably power its economy. Stakeholders reckon that the solution lies in connecting those dots, though with...
Afrik Allianz To Lead The Next Wave Of Global Investments In Africa
News Ghana
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August 18, 2025
United States and Ghanaian registered company Goldstar Air, a private international airline with an issued Air Carrier Licence (ACL/N-SCH No. 0239) from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to operate passenger and cargo flights across West...
What’s in store for Africa?: Russia’s policy strategies
Business and Financial Times
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August 19, 2025
By Kestér Kenn KLOMEGÂH For African countries, more and more diverse economic opportunities have opened up primarily due to the changing geopolitical dynamics around the world today. These changes are obviously influencing Africa’s development...
Maritime Superiority and Strategic Deterrence: Why Naval Power Still Shapes Global Security
The Good Men Project - California
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August 23, 2025
Irina Tsukerman is a human rights and national security attorney based in New York and Connecticut. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in National and Intercultural Studies and Middle East Studies from Fordham University in 2006, followed by a Juris...
From dreams to danger: The need for safer migration pathways for Ethiopian youth
The Reporter Ethiopia
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August 23, 2025
The tragic death of aspiring Ethiopian migrants – especially those who have drowned in the Red Sea, while trying to reach Saudi Arabia through war-torn Yemen – have become increasingly common over the past decade. Known as the Eastern Route, this...
The US has China surrounded with bases, and yet is still fixated on 'deterrence'
The National News
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At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore at the end of May, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that “we are reorienting towards deterring aggression by Communist China” and that “China’s behaviour towards its neighbours and the world is a...
What will Uganda gain from accepting US deportees?
Al Jazeera
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August 23, 2025
Uganda is the latest of several countries to strike a deportation deal with the United States as President Donald Trump ramps up controversial efforts to remove migrants from the country. In a statement on Thursday, Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign...
Chinese-contracted expressway starts construction in eastern Ethiopia
Xinhua News Agency
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ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The construction of the Mieso-Dire Dawa Expressway, a major infrastructure project within the Ethio-Djibouti Transport Corridor, was launched on Tuesday in Dire Dawa, a city in eastern Ethiopia. During the...
Opinion: The American car industry can’t go on like this
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Ford F-150 trucks are assembled at the Dearborn Truck Plant in 2024 in Dearborn, Mich. (Carlos Osorio/AP) Last year, Ford CEO Jim Farley commuted in a car that wasn’t made by his own company. In an effort to scope out the competition, Farley spent...
UAE’s port presence in Africa: Strategic infrastructure & influence
Business and Financial Times
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August 20, 2025
By Seade CAESAR Over the past decade the UAE has become one of Africa’s most consequential maritime partners. Two Abu Dhabi and Dubai based operators DP World and AD Ports Group now anchor long-term concessions, greenfield ports, inland logistics...
Capitalist China and socialist revolution
AntiCapitalist Resistance
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August 11, 2025
Capitalist China and socialist revolution by Simon Hannah [Published by Resistance Books in 2023] The economic and political growth of China and its transformation into a world power is one of the defining features of the modern age and will have...