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Burkina Faso’s tourism revenue hits record $165 million despite security challenges
Monument to National Heroes in Burkina Faso honors the iconic figures and martyrs of Burkinabè history. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/The black photographer By Face2Face Africa Despite security
Read MoreDjibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh elected himself sixth term as president
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Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand (L), talks with Jean Arnault, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Middle East Conflict and its Consequences, in Tehran,
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Featured ArticlesBurkina Faso’s tourism revenue hits record $165 million despite security challenges
Monument to National Heroes in Burkina Faso honors the iconic figures and martyrs of Burkinabè history. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/The black photographer By Face2Face Africa Despite security
Burkina Faso’s tourism revenue hits record $165 million despite security challenges
Monument to National Heroes in Burkina Faso honors the iconic figures and martyrs of Burkinabè history. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/The black photographer By Face2Face Africa Despite security
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Shock as Ugandan Olympic athlete goes missing in Japan
Members of the Uganda Olympics team pose for a photo call as they arrive at a hotel in Izumisano city, Osaka Prefecture on June 20, 2021. AFP By AFP In a statement, Izumisano city said
A female spy from Somalia has been missing for more than two weeks
A photograph appeared on the Internet Ikran Tahlil Farah, a 23-year-old member of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) and former director of the Mogadishu mayor’s office,
Pharmacies pull J&J sunscreens off shelves after carcinogen found in some sprays
Johnson & Johnson’s Neutrogena Cool Dry Sport sunscreen, which is part of a voluntary recall of five Neutrogena and Aveeno brand aerosol sunscreen products after a cancer-causing chemical was
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President Joe Biden meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By AAMER MADHANI, ALEXANDRA
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Members of Amhara Special Forces stand guard along a street in Humera town, Ethiopia July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer By Dawit Endeshaw Ethiopia’s war in the northern region of Tigray looked
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Safaricom headquarters on Nairobi’s Waiyaki Way. By BRIAN NGUGI Safaricom’s plans to expand to Ethiopia have been complicated by a US State financier threatening to recall its loans following
Hotel workers in Qatar facing abuse in run up to World Cup, report says
To host the World Cup in November 2022, Qatar has massively grown its hotel industry (AFP/File photo) Doha says it takes ‘zero-tolerance approach’ towards violating companies, but
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File – In this Friday, April 30, 2021, file photo former Afghan interpreters hold banners during a protest against the U.S. government and NATO in Kabul, Afghanistan. With American troops
UK PM Johnson vows to tackle online racist abuse
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