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America’s New Anti-Vaccine Foreign Policy
The Atlantic
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June 28, 2025
This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his address to a global vaccine summit to disparage global vaccination. The conference was organized by Gavi, the world’s leading immunization program, and in a recorded speech, Kennedy accused the...
RFK Jr. Axes ALL Funding For Bill Gates’ Global ‘Vaccine Alliance’
PJ Media - Virginia
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June 27, 2025
Whereas the general modus operandi in legacy media is to smear RFK Jr. as an “anti-vaxxer” within the first sentence, the Washington Post courteously waited until the second paragraph to label RFK Jr. a “vaccine misinformation” spreader on its way...
Ranked: Countries With the Most Children in 2025
Visual Capitalist
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June 28, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Ranked: Countries With the Most Children in 2025 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven...
RFK Jr. Slashes ALL U.S. Funding For Bill Gates’ Global ‘Vaccine Alliance’
Zero Hedge
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Originally published via Armageddon Prose: Last month, the unsuspecting and deserving people of Ghana got discreetly bitch-slapped by Bill Gates, Inc. when the bioterrorist-posing-as-heroic- nerd’s global bioterror network, GAVI, officially...
Interview – Olukayode Bakare
E-International Relations
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June 28, 2025
Dr. Olukayode Bakare is an esteemed scholar specializing in international relations and sub-Saharan African politics. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and has held teaching and research positions...
Cannabis is the most consumed drug in Africa and the presence of cocaine and opioids is increasing, according to a UN report
Ver Angola
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According to the World Drug Report 2025, published this Thursday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), around 10 percent of the African population aged 15 to 64 used cannabis in 2023, with a particular incidence in West, Central...
AU-IBAR Leads Drive to Safeguard Donkeys With New Continental Strategy
Capital FM Kenya
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June 26, 2025
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Jun 26 – Africa has taken a major step toward safeguarding the future of its donkey population, as leaders, experts, and stakeholders from across the continent gather in Abidjan for the Second Pan-African Donkey Conference...
World Bank: Conflict, instability driving extreme poverty in Nigeria and 38 other economies
Nairametrics
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June 27, 2025
The World Bank has raised alarm over the growing impact of conflict and instability on 39 developing economies, including Nigeria, warning that these states are being left behind on key development indicators, with extreme poverty, hunger, and...
FORCES: Mercenaries
Strategy Page
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June 14, 2025: Currently, dozens of mercenaries, also known as Private Military Contractors or PMCs, are operating around the world, most of them in Africa. These include Angola, Sierra Leone, Congo, Liberia, Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria,...
Actors cut from major movies, from Simone Ashley in F1 to Harrison Ford in ET
The National News
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It’s every actor’s worst nightmare. You’re attached to a project for months if not years, it finally gets greenlit and you film your scenes – only to end up on the cutting room floor. Case in point: Simone Ashley, the Bridgerton star due to appear...
New Index Ranks Vulnerabilities of 188 Nations to Climate Shocks
The Rockefeller Foundation
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June 25, 2025
Columbia Climate School identifies 65 ‘Red Zone’ nations across four separate climate scenarios. 43 nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, eight in Latin America and the Caribbean, six in Asia-Pacific, six in the Middle East, and two in Europe are most...
Mozambique: Collective effort needed to fight corruption – president
Macau Business
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June 26, 2025
Mozambique’s President, Daniel Chapo, on Wednesday again acknowledged that corruption in public institutions undermines development efforts, promising concrete action and calling for collective efforts in the fight against corruption. “Many...
Love Island spoilers: Harrison and Helena head to the hideaway - but it immediately backfires with explosive row
Daily Mail
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June 27, 2025
Friday's episode of Love Island sees Harrison and Helena head to the Hideaway - but it immediately backfires with an explosive row. The ITV2 dating show, presented by Maya Jama, has already seen plenty of arguments and antics in the villa in...
Global Climate Risk Index Ranks 188 Countries by Vulnerability and Access to Finance
State of the Planet
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June 25, 2025
The Climate Finance Vulnerability Index ranks 188 countries according to both their vulnerability to hazards and their financial resilience. Researchers at the Columbia Climate School, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, have unveiled a...
Hip-Hop musical 'Co-Founders' // 'Honoring Amílcar' documentary // RyanNicole's album '#YoursTruly'
KALW - California
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Welcome to “The Sights + Sounds Show with Jeneé Darden,” where every week we tap into the Bay Area arts scene and bring you rich conversations with artists. On today’s show, actress and hip-hop artist RyanNicole talks about her musical...
ECOWAS: As Tinubu’s two-year leadership comes to an end
The Cable
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June 25, 2025
BY LINDA NWABUWA AKHIGBE Only last month, on May 28, 2025, the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, celebrated its 50th anniversary with huge fanfare, commemorating the event with official ceremonies in Ghana and Nigeria. Back in...
China and Africa consolidate dynamic partnership
Friends of Socialist China
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June 16, 2025
On June 11, 2025, the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held in Changsha, capital of China’s Hunan Province. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi...
Mozambique marks 50th anniversary of independence with call for economic independence
The Malaysian Star
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June 25, 2025
MAPUTO, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Mozambique held a grand ceremony on Wednesday at Machava Stadium in Matola, Maputo Province, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the country's independence from Portuguese colonial rule. Mozambican President Daniel...
‘Humanitarian rescue’ of migrants, or the EU’s dirty work?
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Though illegal under international law, the Libyan capture of migrants on the Mediterranean Sea has become commonplace in recent years as the EU has outsourced its effort to stop refugees from crossing its borders. Of course, Europe is not alone...
Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations (FAO) And International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Launch Second Phase Of The Africa Phytosanitary Programme
MENAFN
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June 23, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), in collaboration with the Government of South Africa, represented by the Department of Agriculture,...