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Togo Frees Dozens Held in Anti-Government Protests
News Central TV
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June 10, 2025
More than 50 individuals who were detained during anti-government demonstrations in Togo last week have now been released, though several others remain behind bars, according to a statement from the public prosecutor. The protests, which unfolded...
WB approves $300 million to help Togo's agribusiness
Panapress
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June 13, 2025
13 june 2025 - 10:05:32 MA 174 Views Panafrican News Agency Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The World Bank Group (WBG) has approved $300 million to help Togo position itself as a regional hub in agribusiness and animal nutrition by scaling up the country’s...
Togo Police Quash Rare Anti-Government Protests in Capital
News Central TV
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June 7, 2025
Security forces in Togo moved swiftly on Friday to shut down a rare public protest in the capital, Lomé, as frustrations mount over arrests of dissidents, soaring fuel prices, and controversial constitutional reforms perceived as a power grab by...
Carnival rides and amusements highlight Spring into Summer fair
SaskToday.ca
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June 24, 2025
Food, crafts and a wide variety of other wares and activities keep visitors entertained. KAMSACK — The whoops and hollers, sights and sounds of carnival echoed through Kamsack June 20 to 22 as area residents were invited to “spring into summer.”...
Closed Clinics, Empty Shelves: Patients Struggle as War Unravels Lubero’s Health Care System
Global Press Journal
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June 10, 2025
LUBERO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — War is eroding the foundations of the health care system in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Months of violence between government forces and M23, an armed group with backing from neighboring Rwanda,...
WHO extends health emergency for mpox as cases climb in West Africa
Ghana News Agency
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June 9, 2025
As a result, the public health emergency declared for the disease remains in effect, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced in Geneva, following a recommendation from independent panel of health experts. Mpox, formerly known as...
Mpox still a public health emergency, says WHO
The Cable
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June 10, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the mpox virus is still a public health emergency of international concern. The announcement follows the fourth meeting of the international health regulations (IHR) emergency committee on the upsurge of...
Inside Maggie Sellers’ Morning Routine: Information Diets, Eye Patches & How She Built Hot Smart Rich
The Daily Front Row - New York
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June 9, 2025
19 She’s the founder, podcast host and angel investor redefining modern female empowerment — unapologetic, trailblazing, and impossible to ignore. With the Hot Smart Rich: The Podcast topping Spotify business charts and a growing investment...
CFCFA renews calls to end dog, cat meat trade and animal sacrifices
Ghana News Agency
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June 24, 2025
By Jibril Abdul Mumuni Accra, June 23,GNA- Coalition for Cruelty Free Africa (CFCFA), supported by various international animal protection organizations, is intensifying its campaign to end dog and cat meat trade and animal sacrifices across...
Trump’s travel ban could impact international medical patients
Atlanta News First - Georgia
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June 9, 2025
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - On Monday, President Donald Trump’s newest travel ban goes into effect. The order bans 12 countries, mostly in the Middle East and Africa. They include: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo,...
FDA destroys counterfeit pharmaceutical products worth GH₵42m
Joy FM
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June 7, 2025
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in the Volta Region has destroyed confiscated counterfeit pharmaceutical products worth GH₵42 million. The products included aphrodisiacs, post pills, body enhancement, antibiotics and processed food among...
The Challenges of Togo
Pressenza
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June 6, 2025
Togo’s Authoritarian Spiral: Roots of Violence and Pathways to Sustainable Peace Lome, on June 02 2025 Togo, a small West African nation, bears the deep scars of an authoritarian regime that has systematically violated its citizens’ fundamental...
S.I. leader fears Trump travel ban will thwart her charity’s mission
SI Live - New York
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June 6, 2025
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Elissa Montanti wakes up every morning with a nagging sense of fear. With President Donald Trump’s travel ban on 12 countries, Montanti is afraid her organization, the Global Medical Relief Fund, will not be able to help all...
Stop trading and eating dogs, cats; sacrificing animals crue...
Modern Ghana
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The Coalition for Cruelty Free Africa (CFCFA), backed by a network of international animal protection organizations, has intensified its campaign to abolish the dog and cat meat trade and ritual animal sacrifices across Africa and parts of Asia....
Gene Therapy, ASOs, and Beyond: What’s Coming for Huntington Disease
NeurologyLive
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May 31, 2025
Huntington disease (HD) is a progressive, inherited neurodegenerative disorder marked by movement abnormalities, cognitive decline, and psychiatric symptoms. Caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the HTT gene, the resulting toxic buildup of mutant...
Iraq confirms drone attacks on radar systems at military bases
The National News
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At least two radar systems were attacked by unidentified drones on Tuesday early morning at military bases in Iraq, a government spokesman confirmed, while there was no claim of responsibility for the attacks. The first drone hit the radar system...
Long-serving midwife remembers times gone by at Corniche Hospital
The National News
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ABU DHABI // British midwife Jasmine Sneyd is often greeted in the street by smiling strangers while out walking in the capital. Those strangers are parents whose child the 59-year-old has helped deliver or couples that Ms Sneyd, as a senior...
ECOWAS at 50: EBID Showcases Development Impact at Lomé Event
Togo First
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(Togo First) - The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) celebrated its 50th anniversary with a high-profile event in Lomé on May 27, bringing together senior executives, public and private sector leaders, financiers, insurers,...
52-Year-Old Man Jailed for Machete Attack on Rival
The Chronicle News Online
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June 24, 2025
The Accra Circuit Court, presided over by His Honour Kwabena Kodua Obiri-Yeboah, has sentenced a 52-year-old steel bender, Kojo Senagbe, to six months in hard labour after he pleaded guilty to attacking a 62-year-old man with a machete in what...
Ghana and neighbours host 160,000 displaced persons as EU pledges €10m support for West Africa
Joy FM
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June 23, 2025
As conflict and insecurity continue to escalate across the Central Sahel, the European Union (EU) has pledged €10 million in new funding to support refugees, asylum seekers, and host communities in four neighbouring coastal countries: Benin, Côte...