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Kalmar unveils Gen 2 battery for electric equipment
Port Technology International
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July 4, 2025
Kalmar has introduced its second-generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery solution for its range of electrically powered counterbalanced equipment: reachstackers, empty container handlers and forklifts. The new battery system delivers enhanced...
Experts and producers meet to tackle Africa's most devastating banana diseases
Fresh Plaza
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July 4, 2025
In a context where bananas are an economic pillar and a vital component for the food security and cultural identity of many African regions, more than 100 specialists, authorities, producers, and international organizations participated in a...
Fifty Years of Gowon’s Overthrow, by Eric Teniola
Prompt News Online
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July 4, 2025
Tuesday, July 29,2025 will be the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon GCFR. He was overthrown in a bloodless military coup on the same Tuesday, July 29, 1975. Most of us remember where we were at 6.00 a.m. on Tuesday, July...
Fifty years of Gowon’s overthrow
The Cable
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July 4, 2025
Tuesday, July 29,2025 will be the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon GCFR. He was overthrown in a bloodless military coup on the same Tuesday, July 29, 1975. Most of us remember where we were at 6.00 a.m. on Tuesday, July...
Keep your America, Mr Trump, and we’ll keep our Africa
Al Jazeera
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July 4, 2025
On June 16, The New York Times disclosed that United States President Donald Trump is considering broadening his travel ban list to include as many as 36 additional countries, most of them African – including my country, Zimbabwe. Twelve days...
Royal Air Maroc Expands Munich Airport’s Route Network to Africa
Rus Tourism News
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July 4, 2025
Morocco’s national carrier is returning to Munich Airport: From October 20, 2025, Royal Air Maroc will resume its nonstop service between Munich and Casablanca. The route had been part of the airline’s schedule for many years until the pandemic,...
Africa Unites to Save Donkeys as PADCO-2 Validates Historic Strategy
Capital FM Kenya
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July 1, 2025
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Jul 1 – The Second Pan-African Donkey Conference (PADCO-2) closed with a strong continental call to action, delivering three historic outcomes to preserve Africa’s rapidly declining donkey population. Held under the theme...
The Intuition Trap
Psychology Today
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Imagine you're in a cab rushing down a busy street when the driver casually mentions he doesn't have a license. He doesn't need one, he explains, because he's very intuitive and just trusts his gut when driving. He's been driving for a whole week...
TikTok over talk shows: How Zohran Mamdani won with NYC influencers
PR Week
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June 25, 2025
NEW YORK: New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who claimed victory last night in the Democratic Party primary, didn’t win by cozying onto Jimmy Fallon’s and Stephen Colbert’s late-show couches like the many politicians before him. While...
Royal Air Maroc Restores Munich to Casablanca Nonstop Service
FTN News
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July 4, 2025
Royal Air Maroc is set to strengthen connections between Europe and Africa by restoring its nonstop service between Munich and Casablanca. Beginning October 20, 2025, Morocco’s national carrier will once again operate flights linking Germany’s...
Chinese investment advances labor rights and prosperity in Africa
CGTN
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Workers check the equipment at a cocoa processing complex in the PK24 Industrial Park on the northwestern outskirts of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, May 27, 2025. /Xinhua Workers check the equipment at a cocoa processing complex in the PK24 Industrial...
Can chocolate substitutes step in as cocoa prices soar?
Food Dive
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July 3, 2025
As cocoa prices soar, chocolate substitutes offer a cheaper and potentially more sustainable solution for the sweets sector. But can consumers be convinced to give up their chocolate addiction? Chocolate prices have nearly quadrupled in the last...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Flight delays, bird strikes, runway skids: Nigerian aviation sector’s persistent safety challenges (2)
Punch
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July 3, 2025
Despite a robust regulatory framework and billions spent on safety initiatives, Nigeria’s aviation sector remains plagued by recurring incidents, ageing aircraft, and weak oversight, leaving passenger safety hanging in the balance, writes PRINCESS...
Trump Invites Boakai to Key U.S.-Africa Summit
Liberian Observer
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President Joseph Nyuma Boakai is among five African heads of state invited to a high-level summit in Washington, D.C., hosted by U.S. President Donald J. Trump, aimed at strengthening U.S.-Africa relations through targeted economic and security...
The exit of CO Adebayo, an Awoist philosopher-king, By Ropo Sekoni
Premium Times
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July 5, 2025
The late Mr Cornelius Adebayo In sum, CO substantially impacted good governance in Kwara State and in Nigeria as a whole. First, he used his opportunity to participate in politics as commissioner and governor in the state to further democratise...
West African Compliance Officers Convene in Lomé for 2nd Grand Meeting, July 8-9
Togo First
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(Togo First) - For the second consecutive year, Lome, Togo's capital, will host West African compliance and anti-money laundering experts on July 8 and 9. The GRCRO, organized by the Togolese Association of Compliance Officers (ATCO), brings...
A Bull in the China Policy Shop
Foreign Policy
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With U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, Washington’s attention has shifted back to the Middle East once again. That wasn’t the game plan. It was during Trump’s first term that the United States labeled China a...
Durban FilmMart Industry Programme is Live
Business Ghana
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The Durban FilmMart (DFM) is pleased to announce that its industry programme is now live! Taking place from 18-21 July 2025 at the Elangeni Hotel (Durban), the programme presents a curated series of panel discussions, masterclasses and networking...
Customs hinges poor trade facilitation on multiple agency operations at borders
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 3, 2025
The multiple checkpoints mounted on the Lagos-Abidjan trade corridor are soiling Nigeria’s reputation in trade facilitation, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Area Command has revealed. The Customs Area Controller, Dr Ben Oramalugo, noted a...