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Reconsider travel: Feds issue high-level advisory against travel to African destinations due to crime, terrorism
MassLive - Massachusetts
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July 15, 2025
The United States Department of State (DOS) has issued travel warnings for two destinations in Africa due to concerns of criminal and terrorist activities. Nigeria and Mauritania are under a “Level 3: Reconsider Travel” advisory as of Tuesday,...
A Giant Leap for African Unity: Kenya’s historic Visa-Free policy and the Trans African tourism and unity campaign
Joy FM
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July 15, 2025
Today, July 13, 2025, marks a historic milestone in Africa’s journey toward unity and free movement. Kenya has taken a bold and transformative step by eliminating all visa requirements and the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) for citizens of...
Mauritania’s president to attend Trump’s Africa mini-summit with Sahara diplomacy in view
Hespress
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July 6, 2025
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani will travel to Washington next Tuesday to take part in a mini-summit hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump on July 9 at the White House. The meeting will bring together leaders from...
Dr Biteko to grace CHAN gala dinner as Burkina Faso and Central African Republic set to arrive
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. The 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN) continues to gather momentum as Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic (CAR) arrive in Tanzania on July 31, 2025 ahead of the much-anticipated continental tournament. Both teams...
The U.S. Is About To Slap The World's Most Positive Country With A Travel Ban
The Travel
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July 7, 2025
The "New American Travel Anxiety" is real, and it's not limited to foreigners planning to visit the U.S. amid the Trump administration's controversial border policies. Experts also revealed that Trump's tariffs are impacting almost half of...
Georgia Africa Legislative Caucus says proposed travel ban will hurt the U.S.
Georgia Public Broadcasting
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On Wednesday in Atlanta, members of the Georgia Africa Legislative Caucus gathered at the state capitol to ask Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reconsider a potential travel ban for some African countries. In June, President Donald Trump’s...
A Primer for the White House Visit by Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal
Front Page Africa
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July 10, 2025
A few months ago, the Chairman of the Africa and Global Health Policy Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Ted Cruz, hosted a roundtable discussion that tackled energy and critical mineral partnerships with the...
Int’l travel restrictions spark fresh row over absence of ambassadors
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 10, 2025
The diplomatic community yesterday rued the brewing spat between Nigeria and the United States, partly blaming it on poor handling in the absence of full-fledged ambassadors in Nigeria’s various foreign missions overseas. This is just as the...
Trump’s ‘African lunch’: Trade, tensions & travel bans on the menu
African Insider
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July 9, 2025
The presidents of Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon – five nations located along Africa’s Atlantic Coast – will convene at Trump’s behest.Officials from the countries have told AFP that they expect talks to centre on trade,...
Georgia lawmakers address possible U.S. travel restrictions affecting African-Caribbean nations
SE Atlanta News - Georgia
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July 8, 2025
El-Mahdi Holly, Democrat 116 | Official U.S. House headshotEl-Mahdi Holly, Democrat 116 | Official U.S. House headshot State Representative El-Mahdi Holly, along with members of the Georgia Africa Legislative Caucus, is set to hold a press...
Privileged thrill-seeking teen travels the world broke to find adventure — and altruism
The Times of Israel
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July 5, 2025
After he graduated from a fancy private high school, Tal Dooreck Aloni was living it up on a yacht off the coast of southern France with friends, all expenses paid, when he realized he wanted to do something different with his life. “I looked...
After successful Mauritania pilot, gov’t to issue ID cards to Gambians in Gabon, Congo and Togo
The Standard Gambia
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July 4, 2025
- Advertisement - By Tabora Bojang Interior Minister Abdoulie Sanyang has disclosed that following the successful issuance of national identity cards to Gambians in Mauritania, the government is planning to dispatch another team to Gabon, Congo...
2nd Heritage Conf. continues discussions on Western travel literature
Sharjah24
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Economic Conditions Through Western Travel Literature In the session titled “Economic Conditions Through Western Travel Literature”, moderated by Dr Mani Bounama, Dr Mohammed Al Mansouri spoke about the profound transformations in the Trucial...
The global fallout of Trump’s travel bans
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 3, 2025
President Donald Trump’s sweeping orders banning citizens of 12 countries, international students, and his threats to ban Nigeria and 35 other countries from travelling to the United States—whether anchored under the guise of national security,...
Can Trump Win Africa Back?
Pakistan Today
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July 30, 2025
In the high-stakes world of 21st-century geopolitics, even a lunch can tell a deeper story. That was certainly the case when US President Donald Trump recently hosted a seemingly low-profile summit with African leaders at the White House. Leaders...
No Chosen People, Except the Conscientious
Modern Ghana
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Human beings are largely defined by choice, not by power and labels. Accordingly, there are only two types of people in different levels: The conscientious group in different levels and the non-conscientious group in different levels. Even from a...
The Moroccan Sahara will bloom: Christopher Nolan’s filming in Dakhla puts the seal of approval to the region’s development and future
The Times of India
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July 30, 2025
Christopher Nolan’s latest production ‘The Odyssey’ is facing some criticism because a part of it was shot in the Moroccan Sahara city of Dakhla. The protests are coming from so-called Sahrawi activists and FiSahara, which organises a movie...
Trump’s banquet for Africa’s Lilliputians
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 29, 2025
The presidents of five West and Central African states – Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Liberia’s Joseph Boakai, Guinea-Bissau’s Umaro Cissoko Embaló, Mauritania’s Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, and Gabon’s Brice Oligui Nguema – recently visited United...
Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam brace for CHAN 2024 economic bonanza
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. Tanzania is poised to reap significant economic benefits from hosting matches in the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN), with hotels, transport operators and tourism stakeholders preparing to capitalise on the expected influx...
'I've visited all 195 countries on Earth and these two stand out from the rest'
The Mirror
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July 29, 2025
An intrepid explorer who's visited every country on Earth by the age of 25 has named two surprising countries among his favourites. Cameron Mofid, who hails from San Diego, California, set out on a mission to visit every UN-recognised country and...