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Leone Ranks Second Weakest Currency in Africa for September 2025
The Sierra Leonean Leone has been ranked as the second weakest currency in Africa, according to a Forbes currency calculator report for September 2025, underscoring the lingering pressure on Sierra Leone’s economy despite recent signs of easing...
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Barclays targeted in five countries
Paint and glue attacks cap 200 actions during ‘Summer of Sabotage’ by Shut The System and allies ~ Scott Harris ~ Shut the System says its activists and allied groups carried out coordinated actions targeting Barclays and BlackRock properties...
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Naira ranks ninth weakest currency in Africa – Forbes report
The Nigerian Naira has been named the ninth weakest currency on the continent, according to a September 2025 Forbes currency calculator report, highlighting ongoing pressure on the economy despite signs of cooling inflation. The Forbes ranking,...
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Young Libs in the Chocolate Factory
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A group of Young Liberals are touring Hobart’s Cadbury chocolate factory. They are warned – along with the other guests – not to take photographs or use recording equipment. They must not put their fingers in the giant vats of cocoa, touch any...
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Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘We are never completely free; we have moments of freedom’
The Nervous Conditions referenced by the title of the first novel of Tstisi Dangarembga, 66, were also described by Jean-Paul Sartre in the prologue to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Said nerves come from the loss of all references,...
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Cameroon 2018–2025 trade review: exports rebound, regional integration deepens
(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon, the economic hub of Central Africa, pursued a clear strategy between 2018 and 2025: modernizing infrastructure, expanding regional networks, and diversifying exports. During the same period, its trade...
Owner: Yasmine Bahri-Domon
Prix Pictet 2025: Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar wins prized photography and sustainability award
Alfredo Jaar's eerie image of the Great Salt Lake in Utah has won this year's Prix Pictet, one of the world's leading awards for photography and sustainability. The Chilean artist's series, entitled The End illustrates how the area is being...
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Entire nation declared a single UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
Pico de São Tomé in São Tomé and Príncipe, a newly designated UNESCO Biosphere Reserve . Image: Marion Tafani The tropical archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe has become the first entire country to be designated a single UNESCO Biosphere Reserve...
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Don’t give up on better world, UN deputy chief urges festival crowd
Foreign Deputy UN Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has thanked the crowd at New York’s Global Citizen Festival for using their voice for justice and “refusing to give up on a better world.” The music event, which took place in Central Park on the...
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$100 billion OmegaPro scandal highlights Turkey’s role as a haven for global fraudsters
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A massive US class-action lawsuit has turned the spotlight on Turkey’s growing role as a safe haven for international fraudsters, exposing how the country became a staging ground for the $100 billion OmegaPro crypto...
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The UN’s AI warnings grow louder
Welcome back to In the Loop, TIME’s new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. We're publishing these editions both as stories on Time.com and as emails. It was a busy week for our team: Tharin Pillay was on site during the UN General Assembly in New...
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‘What you’re witnessing isn’t just politics. It’s not disagreement. It’s not protest. It’s evil’
President Donald Trump takes the stage with Erika Kirk at the Memorial Service for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok) Imagine this: You wake up to news that...
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Forbes Report Says Nigerian Naira Now Ninth Weakest Currency In Africa
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The Forbes currency calculator report for September 2025 has ranked the Nigerian Naira as the ninth weakest currency in Africa. This latest ranking underscores the lingering pressure on Nigeria’s economy despite recent signs of easing inflation....
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Even if Trump is right about UN, US should be last to complain
United States President Donald Trump delivered an unscripted address at the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, railing against the institution and calling it a ‘failed organisation’. What might have been dismissed as another unhinged...
Owner: Mukesh Ambani
UN: criticized but where everyone wants to be
As has been the case for several years now, this time too there have been critical voices regarding the alleged ineffectiveness of the UN, the disproportion between its enormous expenses and the meager results obtained in its operations and,...
Owner: Javier Fernandez Arribas
Bolivia’s Afro-descendants fight back with dance and memory
AFRO-BOLIVIANS: People descend from the Africans enslaved in the Americas during the European conquest between the 16th and 17th centuries are gather testimonies documenting the community’s long-lost past. PHOTO COURTESY OF SOLIDARITYINSAYA.COM...
Owner: Robert G. & Michele Beatty
When govts put a price on everything
US President Donald Trump recently announced that professional work visas (H-1Bs) for the US will now cost sponsoring institutions $100,000. This is not a fee; it is the price that any company or university that wants to hire a foreigner must pay....
Owner: Qatari Government
Trump Puts America Up for Sale: Everything Now Comes With a Price Tag
US President Donald Trump recently announced that professional work visas (H-1Bs) for the United States will now cost sponsoring institutions $100,000. This is not a fee; it is the price that any company or university that wants to hire a...
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Kuminga lands at #83 in ESPN’s NBA Top 100 list
You know what might be the most Warriors thing ever? Having a player ranked as the 83rd best in the entire NBA according to ESPN’s annual rankings, and that same player spending half the season wondering if he’ll get meaningful minutes in crucial...
Owner: Jay Penske
United Nations : On verge of collapse or at threshold of reform?
Born out of the ruins of the Second World War in 1945, the United Nations was created with the hope of ensuring peace, justice and security for humanity. Its aim was to establish a global platform where all states would participate equally and...
Owner: Rased Mehedi