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How Trump has already changed the world 2025-01-21
Dawn

(CLOCKWISE from top) Former US president Barack Obama greets former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton; incoming Secretary of State Mark Rubio speaks to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg; while, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and SpaceX...

photo: AP / Photo/Hiro Komae

Ghana soldiers kill at least 7 people described as illegal gold miners 2025-01-20
Wtop

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana, the West African country’s military said. Ghana’s armed forces said Sunday in a statement on X that around 60 “illegal miners” carrying locally manufactured rifles and other weapons breached the...

photo: US Army / U.S. Army Africa

South African police launch hunt for alleged illegal mining ‘kingpin’ 2025-01-20
The Observer

South African police are hunting an alleged “kingpin” of illegal mining after he escaped from custody following a rescue operation last week in which 78 bodies were brought out of an illicit goldmine. James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national known as Tiger, has been accused by other illegal miners of...

photo: AP / Photo/Themba Hadebe

Pfizer Foundation provides $15m to improve breast cancer care in sub-Saharan Africa 2025-01-20
Ghana Business News

The Pfizer Foundation has provided $15 million investment to a three-year initiative to improve the lives of women with breast cancer in Rwanda, Ghana, and Tanzania. The Grant funding will be provided to global health nonprofit organisations, Jhpiego and Partners in Health, to support and scale...

photo: AP / Richard Drew

More Kenyan police land in Haiti to bolster security mission 2025-01-19
The Philadelphia Inquirer

PORT-AU-PRINCE — An additional 217 Kenyan police officers landed in Haiti on Saturday to bolster a...

photo: AP / Odelyn Joseph

Seventy killed in central Nigeria after fuel tanker flips over and explodes 2025-01-19
The Observer

A fuel tanker exploded after flipping over in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing 70 people who had scrambled to take the fuel. Kumar Tsukwam, the head of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Niger State, said a truck carrying 60,000 litres of gasoline had...

photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

China's population falls for a third straight year, posing challenges for its government and economy 2025-01-17
Moosejaw Today

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for...

photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

Egypt arrests journalist, wife of jailed cartoonist after interview 2025-01-16
CPJ

Washington, D.C., January 16, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns Egypt’s January 16 arrests of Nada Mougheeth, wife of imprisoned cartoonist Ashraf Omar, and journalist Ahmed Serag, who was detained after interviewing Mougheeth about Omar’s ongoing detention and alleged...

photo: AP / Amr Nabil

In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists 2025-01-16
CPJ

China, Israel, and Myanmar emerged as the world’s three worst offenders in another record-setting year for journalists jailed because of their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2024 prison census has found. Belarus and Russia rounded out the top five, with CPJ documenting its...

photo: AP / Lintao Zhang, Pool

South Africa ends mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors 2025-01-16
Daily Bulletin

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies after hundreds of miners were trapped for months in one of...

photo: AP / Photo/Themba Hadebe