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Gtco’s Strategic Moves Signal A Golden Opportunity For Investors
The Nigerian Voice
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In the ever-volatile world of capital markets, where investor confidence often oscillates with economic headwinds, few institutions have consistently demonstrated the grit, foresight, and financial discipline that Guaranty Trust Holding Company...
The Fort Brand Playbook: Building Sustainable, Profitable Hair Business In Emerging Markets
Daily Independent
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July 5, 2025
1 In the midst of a booming global beauty industry, dominated by mega-corporations and often Western-centric ideals, a quiet yet powerful revolution is emerging from West Africa. This revolution speaks directly to the everyday needs, cultural...
No Nation Is Immune To Maritime Insecurity – CDS
Daily Guide
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July 11, 2025
Service Chiefs in a group photograph during the closing ceremony of IMDEC 2025 CHIEF OF Army Staff, Lt. General William Agyapong, has called on African leaders to take a second look at the existing security strategies that govern the maritime...
Senegal Introduces Hexavalent Vaccine Into Its National Immunization Programme
MENAFN
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July 2, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo On July 1, 2025, Senegal officially launched the introduction of the hexavalent vaccine into its Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). Following in Mauritania's footsteps, Senegal is part of...
The bulk of Senegal's mango harvest arrives on the market
Fresh Plaza
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July 4, 2025
The bulk of Senegalese mango production, namely that from the Niayes region, is arriving on the international market. The season is shaping up to be significantly better than last year's, according to several growers, including Mohamed Mbengue...
Letter of Intent signed: Daimler Truck becomes partner for vehicle assembly in Senegal
Automotive World
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July 3, 2025
Daimler Truck supports the Government of Senegal and its partner Global Truck Systems in setting up a truck assembly plant in Senegal Daimler Truck has signed a letter of intent on locally assembled trucks together with the government of the...
ImpactWorks Alliance Announced at FFD4 to Embed Sustainability into Business Decisions
International Organization for Standardization
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Sevilla, Spain | 3 July 2025 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), in collaboration with Social Value International (SVI), today announced the ImpactWorks Alliance at the...
China and Senegal reaffirm solidarity
Friends of Socialist China
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July 3, 2025
Prime Minister of Senegal Ousmane Sonko met separately in Beijing on June 27 with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. Sonko was visiting China to attend the 2025 ‘Summer Davos’ in Tianjin. Xi said that last September, he co-chaired...
Daimler Truck Plans Senegal Assembly Plant in Tripartite Deal
News Ghana
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July 3, 2025
Daimler Truck has signed a Letter of Intent with Senegal’s government and Global Truck Systems (GTS) to establish a truck assembly facility near Dakar, targeting production start in 2026. The agreement designates Daimler as exclusive supplier of...
Sustainable development and unsustainable debt
CADTM
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June 30, 2025
These laudable aims have, like many UN initiatives in the 21st century, proven unsustainable. As the world leaders pontificate this week in Seville, the reality is that the gap between the rich countries and the rest of the world has not closed –...
IMF Egypt / Senegal / International Aid Cuts
I News Cayman
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July 3, 2025
Julie Kozack The IMF praised Senegal for acting to engage reforms to strengthen its economy, while also working with the IMF to clarify and amend it’s debt position after it uncovered misreporting of how much the African country owed creditors, a...
UAE reaffirms climate commitment, support to multilateral work at 62nd Session of Subsidiary Bodies of UNFCCC
Memphis Sun - Tennessee
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BONN, GERMANY, 3rd July 2025 (WAM) -- The United Arab Emirates successfully concluded its participation at the 62nd Session of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB62) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which was held in...
Trump’s Pacific and Africa strategies: A critical minerals gamble to counter China
Natural News
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October 7, 2025
Trump’s Pacific and Africa strategies: A critical minerals gamble to counter China Trump’s executive order prioritizes seabed mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) through partnerships like Nauru to reduce reliance on China. U.S. summit...
Prime Minister Gaston Browne Champions Debt Reform and Climate Justice at FfD4
Antigua News Room
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July 3, 2025
Prime Minister Gaston Browne Champions Debt Reform and Climate Justice at FfD4 Sevilla, Spain – 2 July 2025 – Antigua and Barbuda took center stage on the third day of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), as...
“We’ve Planted the Seeds of Economic Sovereignty,” Says KIFEMA Capital CEO
Togo First
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(Togo First) - As Togo refines its development model through strategic investments, Togo First interviewed Arthur Lilas Trimua, the outgoing CEO of KIFEMA Capital. Trimua, a Togolese expert, departs after four years, leaving behind an operational...
IFAD and EU launch initiative to turn migrant remittances into climate resilience for rural families
Africa Business Communities
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A new €4.26 million initiative will support thousands of rural families in Honduras, Senegal and Pakistan to adapt to climate change and strengthen their resilience to weather shocks. The project ‘ResilientRemit', co-funded by the European Union...
Ending plastic pollution in Africa: a matter of justice for African women and communities
Greenpeace International
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July 2, 2025
This story was originally posted by Greenpeace Africa. In Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite, Joyce, a young mother rises each day not to farm her land or build her dream, but to scavenge through plastic waste to sell and feed her children. Years of...
Failure To Launch: ‘Akon City’ Scrapped After Rapper Allegedly Abandoned The Project
Black Enterprise
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July 10, 2025
Rapper and Millionaire, Akon's planned Akon City will no longer be a reality. The Senegalese government will now build a resort in its stead. Plans for a futuristic African city backed by New Jersey-born music mogul and entrepreneur Akon have been...
Trump touts US arms to African leaders
Colorado Star
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The president claimed recent strikes in Iran were evidence of the reliability of American-made weapons US President Donald Trump has urged African leaders to increase defense spending and buy more American weapons, claiming they are "the best...
Green Climate Fund approves a record $300 million for FAO-designed projects in Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia and the Sahel
Food and Agriculture Organization
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Port Moresby/Rome - The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved projects worth more than $300 million that will protect forests in Papua New Guinea, promote sustainable fisheries in Saint Lucia, and help grow Africa’s Great Green Wall. The...