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The Doctrine of Intertemporal Law and the Challenge of Decolonising the Law on Territorial and Boundary Issues in Africa: Gabon/Equatorial Guinea at the ICJ
EJIL: Talk!
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July 8, 2025
Introduction On 19 May 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered judgment in Land and Maritime Delimitation and Sovereignty over Islands (Gabon/Equatorial Guinea). The Court relied on a 1900 boundary treaty between the Parties’...
Africa’s Addiction to Aid
Pressenza
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July 17, 2025
by Mesay Berhanu Gemechu Is it the beginning of the end of Africa’s overreliance on foreign aid? Trump’s decision to end the flow of aid going to the developing world, notably Africa, which has been channeled through the USAID over the past...
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...
Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner in Ghana Presents Letters of Credence in Burkina Faso
Sierraloaded
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June 29, 2025
His Excellency Mohamed Hassan Kaisamba, Sierra Leone’s non-resident Ambassador to Burkina Faso and high commissioner resident in Accra, Ghana, has on Thursday, 26th June 2025, formally presented his Letters of Credence to Captain Ibrahim Traore,...
Engineers & Planners defends $100m Azumah gold mine acquisition, dismisses political claims
Joy FM
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July 8, 2025
Engineers & Planners (E&P), the Ghanaian firm at the center of a gold mine acquisition, has clarified what it calls “misleading and false claims” regarding its purchase of Azumah Resources Ghana Ltd, a gold concession in the Upper West Region...
WHO plans trachoma elimination intervention in Nigeria, 19 others
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 17, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed Nigeria among the 20 countries in the African region that require trachoma elimination intervention. The countries are Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Côte...
Burkina Faso and Togo: a joint effort on operational flood monitoring and forecasting
World Meteorological Organization
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June 23, 2025
Improved operational capacity to use flood forecasting systems for early warning has brought together specialists from the two countries, facilitating the exchange of experience between meteorologists, hydrologists, and disaster risk reduction...
Tanzania to Face Burkina Faso in CHAN Opener
News Central TV
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June 28, 2025
The 2025 African Nations Championship (CHAN) is set to begin on August 2, with co-hosts Tanzania facing Burkina Faso in the opening match in Dar es Salaam. The biennial tournament, exclusively for footballers playing in their home countries, will...
French army leaves Senegal, ending military presence in west Africa
Yahoo News
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France on Thursday formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent army camps in either west or central Africa. Ending the French army's 65 years in independent Senegal, the pull-out comes after similar...
West Africa terror: why attacks on military bases are rising...
Modern Ghana
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More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country's military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), on the town of Boulikessi. The same...
Co-hosts Tanzania to face Burkina Faso in CHAN opener
Citizen TV Kenya
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June 28, 2025
Co-hosts Tanzania will play Burkina Faso in the opening match of the 2025 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Dar es Salaam on August 2, the organisers announced on Friday. The other co-hosts, Kenya and Uganda, will begin their campaigns on the...
Ghanaian elected Vice President of global Seventh-day Adventist Church
Ghana News Agency
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July 7, 2025
Accra, July 7, GNA – The World Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church has elected Professor Robert Osei Bonsu, a Ghanaian pastor and scholar, as one of its Vice Presidents at its ongoing General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri, United States...
West Africa terror: why attacks on military bases are rising – and four ways to respond
The Conversation
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July 7, 2025
More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country’s military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), on the town of Boulikessi. The same...
Zoomlion enters Burkina Faso
Ghana Business News
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June 27, 2025
Zoomlion Ghana Limited the leading subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies is set to extend its expertise to Burkina Faso’s waste management sector, following a high-level meeting between its Executive Chairman, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, and...
Zoomlion to launch in Burkina Faso
Business Ghana
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Zoomlion Ghana Limited, the leading subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies, is set to extend its expertise to Burkina Faso’s waste management sector, following a high-level meeting between its Executive Chairman, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong,...
GOOD MORNING MR PRESIDENT: Nationwide security vigilance is vital
The Point
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This action serves as a wake-up call for the authorities of The Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania, to work collectively to ensure proper security measures are put in place to keep their territories secure and safe. Indeed there is a need for...
Liberia: As Five African Heads of State Prepare for High-stakes White House talks, President Trump Pushes Trade over Aid in Renewed African policy framework
Front Page Africa
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July 7, 2025
Washington, D.C. – President Donald Trump is set to host the heads of state from Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal at the White House next week for a luncheon aimed at strengthening commercial and security ties between the...
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...
Our land, our legacy
The Nassau Guardian
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Dear Editor, I used to laugh and dance along to the satirical song “Dey Sellin” by Bahamian artist Kirkland “KB” Bodie. It was catchy, clever, and made light of an issue that, at the time, felt more like comedy than concern. In hindsight, I now...
Zoomlion extends sustainable waste management solutions to Burkina Faso
GhanaWeb
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June 25, 2025
Zoomlion Ghana Limited the leading subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies is set to extend its expertise to Burkina Faso's waste management sector, following a high-level meeting between its Executive Chairman, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, and...