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'Louisiana Lockup': ICE’s Newest Prison Is Open for Business
Townhall
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September 3, 2025
DHS officials confirmed that 51 illegal immigrants have already been transferred to the facility, according to Fox News. A section of the prison has been repurposed to house them, providing around 416 beds, all made possible by funding from...
The Peoples Conference For Palestine: Another Step Forward
PopularResistance.org
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September 9, 2025
Above photo: Sabah Shah, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement of Dallas, waves a large Palestinian flag during the People’s Conference for Palestine on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025 at Huntington Place in Detroit. Katy Kildee, The Detroit...
Angola inaugurates Cabinda Refinery budgeted at over 400 million
Portugal Pulse
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August 31, 2025
The manufacturing unit, overseen by Sonangol and Gemcorp, will have a processing capacity of 60,000 barrels of oil per day but will start operations with 30,000 barrels daily in the first phase. The Cabinda Refinery, located in the Tando-Zinze...
Visa-free Africa can unleash a $3.3 trillion market and jobs – Mubarak, Team Lead, Trans-African Tourism and Unity Campaign
Business Day
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September 3, 2025
As Africa eyes the vast promise of the $3.3 trillion African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a bold Pan-African campaign is demanding visa-free travel across the continent to unlock trade, tourism, and job creation for its 1.4 billion...
My family's trip to Angola wasn't a vacation, it was a moving journey
USA Today
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A group of African Americans traveled to Angola to explore their ancestral roots and learn about the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The trip aimed to foster healing and recognize the connection between African Americans and Angola, with participants...
The countries with the most vacation days in the world
Conde Nast Traveller
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September 9, 2025
How much you travel depends on how much you’re allowed to—and, as it turns out, some countries are far more generous with time off than others. According to the Global Paid Leave Report for 2025 by Moorepay, a UK organisation that provides HR...
Nigeria Not Bothered About US President Trump’s Tariffs, Trade Policies – Tinubu
Sahara Reporters
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President Bola Tinubu has claimed that Nigeria’s economy is not moved by whatever trade policies the United States president, Donald Trump, has brought or plans to bring. Tinubu, on Tuesday, told visiting members of The Buhari Organisation (TBO)...
“Creation is wounded by human greed”: Catholic Official in Angola Laments, Calls for “attitude of care for creation”
ACI Africa
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September 2, 2025
He added, “We are guardians, not owners of creation. And God will hold us accountable for how we care for the world He entrusted to us.” The Angolan member of the Society of Jesus (SJ/Jesuits) outlined the dangers of environmental destruction,...
Newly appointed CARICOM Chair calls for a proactive and results-oriented Africa-CARICOM collaboration
Dominica News Online
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September 8, 2025
The tragic history of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which once brought immense suffering to their peoples, is now envisioned as a symbol of renewal through the Atlantic Bridge—a pathway of hope, progress, and rightful recognition. This transformative...
Dubai Investments partners with Angola’s sovereign wealth fund for real estate projects
Gulf Business
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September 2, 2025
Luanda, Luanda Province, Angola/Image: Pexels Dubai Investments, a diversified investment company listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), has signed a strategic agreement with Angola’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (FSDEA) to jointly develop...
African Credit Ratings Show Signs of Recovery as Market Access Returns
News Ghana
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September 2, 2025
African governments are experiencing a gradual return to financial stability, with improving credit ratings and renewed access to international capital markets signaling a potential turning point for the continent’s economic prospects. The African...
British and French withdrawal could be a boon for African banks
Zawya
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There has been a big changing of the guard in terms of Western banking operations in Africa in recent years. Some of the traditional British and French heavyweights have withdrawn since the Covid-19 pandemic but at least one US counterpart has...
Nigerian banks lead African trade surge
Zawya
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When First Bank, Nigeria’s oldest lender, opened its first cross-border branch in Ghana in 1997, it was such a novel idea that it took seven years before United Bank for Africa (UBA) followed the example in 2004. Then the idea caught on, with...
Africa’s Economic Growth Faces Headwinds Despite Inflation Cooling
News Ghana
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September 2, 2025
Africa’s economic recovery is hitting speed bumps as trade challenges and commodity volatility dampen growth prospects, according to the latest assessment from the African Export-Import Bank. The bank’s August 2025 macroeconomic report reveals a...
Africa: Bank customers switch to fintechs to avoid excessive service charges
Zawya
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Banking in Nigeria continues to be frustrating for customers on a daily basis – at most bank branches, long queues of cus- tomers can be found demand- ing answers about excessive charges on their accounts. The ever-expanding list of charges,...
International business briefs: Elliott takes $4bn stake in PepsiCo, pushes for growth
BusinessLIVE
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Bengaluru — Angola’s planned 30,000 bpd Cabinda oil refinery, the first to be built since independence a half-century ago, will begin producing fuel by the end of the year, the country’s oil and gas minister said on Monday. The project, Angola’s...
Agricultural trade mission from the Netherlands to Angola
Fresh Plaza
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September 2, 2025
From 6–10 of October, an outgoing agricultural trade mission will be organized from the Netherlands to Angola. The mission will focus on key growth sectors, including sustainable agriculture (fruits, seeds, and horticulture) as well as logistics....
FIRST E&P Eyes 250,000 bpd Oil, 1Bscf/d Gas Production by 2030
This Day
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September 8, 2025
Peter Uzoho Nigerian independent energy company, FIRST Exploration and Petroleum Development Company Limited has announced plans to increase its oil production to 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2030. The Ademola Adeyemi-Bero-owned company is...
Graduation from LDC: ‘We have 2.5 options to seek deferral’
Daily Star
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September 8, 2025
Debapriya says decision must rest on solid evidence, strong backing from dev partners Bangladesh should view its LDC exit not as a burden but as a milestone, an opportunity to advance long-delayed reforms for structural transformation of the...
Angolan writer and former political prisoner republishes book on practical tools against dictatorships
Global Voices
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August 29, 2025
Post-election protests in Maputo, Mozambique, in 2025. Photo: Wilson Tholee, used with permission Editor’s note: The author of this text is also a contributor to the new edition of the book by interviewee Domingos da Cruz. In June 2015, Domingos...