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Chaos, Controversy, and Cash Flow: Nine Takeaways from the New Live Aid Doc

Rolling Stone · July 22, 2025

“It was our Woodstock, but better,” Nile Rodgers asserts in Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World, referring to the all-star charity concerts broadcast around the world 40 years ago. Boomers may quibble, even with the presence of Mick...

GIABA Seeks ECOWAS Resident Representatives’ Support to fight Money Laundering, Illicit and Terrorism Financing in West Africa

Ghana Broadcasting Corporation · July 19, 2025

By Dominic Hlordzi The Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), an ECOWAS institution, is taking steps to leverage the influence of ECOWAS Resident Representatives in its efforts to combat money laundering,...

Nigerians and Guineans to Receive ID Cards Instead of Permits

The Voice Gambia · July 22, 2025

By: Nyima Sillah The Gambia Immigration Department (GID), has revealed that citizens of Nigeria and Guinea Conakry living in The Gambia will no longer be given residential permits but rather get Non-Gambian ID cards. In a media chart with The...

69% of fuel supply in West Africa imported – NMDPRA

Premium Times · July 22, 2025

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) on Tuesday said 69 per cent of fuel supply in West Africa is imported. The NMDPRA Chief Executive, Farouk Ahmed, disclosed this while speaking at the West African...

Digital Earth Africa to launch vital new tools for wetland conservation at Ramsar COP15

Business Ghana ·

For the first time in 20 years, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP15) returns to Africa, with its debut in Southern Africa, at Victoria Falls from 23-31 July. Amid growing threats to the continent’s wetlands—including urbanisation,...

Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel

Middle East Eye · July 10, 2025

More than 20 countries are convening in Bogota next week to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”, diplomats told Middle East Eye. The “emergency summit” is due to be held on 15-16 July, co-hosted by the...

David Moyes set for triple boost as Everton go from famine to feast in key area

Liverpool Echo · July 17, 2025

Less than 10 miles separate Blackburn Rovers’ Ewood Park from Accrington Stanley’s Wham Stadium but it could be all change for Everton for their second pre-season friendly on Saturday. The Blues could go from famine to feast in one crucial area of...

Colombia hosts first Hague Group summit to finalize action against Israel’s Gaza offensive

El País · July 15, 2025

Colombia will host the first emergency ministerial summit of the Hague Group this week. The meeting, scheduled for Bogotá on July 15 and 16, seeks to coordinate concrete actions, including “legal and diplomatic measures,” against Israel’s...

‘Foundations of Our Shared Humanity at Risk,’ UNRWA’s Lazzarini Tells Hague Group

The Palestine Chronicle · July 16, 2025

Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), By Palestine Chronicle Staff “This is not only a humanitarian catastrophe. It is a crisis for international humanitarian law and the rules-based international...

Ghana’s ECOWAS Parliament delegation approved with last-minute changes

Ghana News Agency · July 22, 2025

By Elsie Appiah-Osei Accra, July 22, GNA- Parliament has approved the composition of Ghana’s Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament delegation with some last-minute amendments to ensure compliance with the 30 per cent female...

How Mauritania-Israel normalization may boost US posture in the Sahel

Atlantic Council · July 16, 2025

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani recently met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the US-Africa Summit, according to media reports, which I confirmed through sources on background. The meeting reportedly...

'Love' and 'respect' as Man Utd-linked Jackson rejects two European giants

Sports Mole ·

Chelsea's Nicolas Jackson reportedly turns down the chance to join two Serie A clubs due to his desire to remain in England, but Manchester United are still unlikely to make a move. Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson has rejected the opportunity to...

African countries ranked among world’s 50 most food self-sufficient countries

Business Insider Africa · July 22, 2025

Feeding your own people everything they need, from fruits and vegetables to dairy and fish, is harder than it sounds. Out of 186 countries studied, just one, Guyana, hit the mark for full food self-sufficiency across all seven major food groups....

Goals and Highlights: Nigeria 2-1 South Africa in Women's Africa Cup of Nations

VAVEL · July 22, 2025

EVENT ENDED A very lively duel, the match went back and forth with both teams having plenty of chances, but it was in the final minutes of extra time that Nigeria managed to take the lead. A new change to refresh the Nigerian squad. Sikiratu Isah...

Social Eyes: Week of July 24-30

East Bay Express - California · July 22, 2025

THURSDAY, JULY 24 RAP OUIJA MACC Last summer, the rapper Ouija Macc posited on X, “I MIGHT BE THE MOST HATED JUGGALO.” For those uninitiated, the word refers to the scores of creep-tastic oddballs who follow the duo Insane Clown Posse in the...

Buhari’s 1993 interview with TheNEWS: Why Babangida overthrew me

The News (Nigeria) · July 17, 2025

In 1993, President Muhammadu Buhari, (who died on Sunday 13 July 2025 and was buried in Daura, Katsina State on Tuesday 15 July 2025) spoke on major issues about his regime when he and General Tunde Idiagbon were in charge. That is, his overthrow...

The Selloff Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Tainted Homes—And Where The Money Went

Forbes ·

Jeffrey Epstein's former estate on Little St. James Island in the U. S. Virgin Islands. Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Six years after his death in a Manhattan prison cell in August 2019, Jeffrey Epstein is once again...

69% of West Africa’s petrol supply still imported — NMDPRA boss

Tribune Online · July 22, 2025

The chief executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed, has disclosed that 69% of West Africa’s petrol supply is still imported. Speaking at the Global Commodity Insights Conference on...

Prison Harms Black Men’s Mental Health Long After Release

MindSite News · July 22, 2025

Photo: Bricolage/Shutterstock Good morning, MindSite News readers. In today’s newsletter, we look at how abuse and violence in prisons and jails continues to erode Black men’s mental health – even after they get out. Plus, we report on whether...

Abidjan dreams of becoming Africa’s next cinema hub

Taipei Times · July 19, 2025

In the shadow of Nigeria’s prolific Nollywood, Ivory Coast has only 15 cinemas and released just 20 films last year, but local directors and the government want to change that In the lush forests north of Abidjan, technicians were busy filming on...