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Africa Intelligence Brief Comprehensive News Roundup For August 27, 2025
MENAFN
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August 27, 2025
(MENAFN- The Rio Times) On August 27, 2025, Egypt signed a $220 million deal with Gulf and Chinese partners to build a major solar-panel production complex, boosting its renewable energy capacity. Meanwhile, Algeria battled dozens of wildfires...
Savannah Energy provides year-to-date operational, financial updates
Business Day
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August 27, 2025
Savannah Energy Plc has provided update on its operating and financial performance for the seven months to July 31, 2025. The update shows that its gross production in Nigeria averaged 21.0 Kboepd (7M 2024: 24.3 Kboepd), of which 86 percent was...
Barred I.Coast opposition figures among 60 candidates for president
Bangladesh Sangsbad Sangstha
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Barred I.Coast opposition figures among 60 candidates for president ABIDJAN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Sixty people have officially submitted bids to run for president of Ivory Coast in October elections, including two leading opposition figures...
CDD warns against resurgence of military rule in Africa
News Diary Online
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August 27, 2025
By Perpetua Onuegbu The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa) has expressed concern over the resurgence and normalisation of military rule in parts of West and Central Africa. The organisation warned that the trend posed a major...
All Blacks v South Africa: The All Blacks’ late yellow card issue
The New Zealand Herald
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August 27, 2025
28-5 The scoreline while the All Blacks are up a player or more under Scott Robertson. My colleague Gregor Paul has gone as far as saying “The All Blacks have become rugby’s equivalent of an organised crime syndicate“. Maybe one that keeps getting...
A complex smuggling network owned by masterminds from Northern Africa has been exposed
Business Insider Africa
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August 27, 2025
Spain's Guardia Civil conducted raids on June 17-19 in Almería, Níjar, Tabernas, Espartinas (Seville), and Alicante. The criminal ring, led by a Moroccan individual, included suspects from Algeria and Morocco living in Spain. Investigators...
Views of Africa and the cartographic truth
Otago Daily Times
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August 27, 2025
Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a "Change the Map" campaign in April. "When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, they develop a biased view of Africa’s role in the...
Mauritania Enters Ukraine’s Game For Influence In Africa
SouthFront
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August 27, 2025
File image. Mauritania has denied that it was allowing Ukraine to traffic equipment and fighters through its territories to neighboring Mali. Alexander Ivanov, head of the Commonwealth of Officers for International Security, was the first to shed...
Everllence 175D Engines Power Indian Coast Guard Vessels
Turbomachinery International
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Everllence (formerly MAN Energy Solutions) will deliver 14 x 3 x 16V175D-MM high-speed engines to Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai, India, which is building 14 fast patrols vessels (FPVs) for the Indian Coast Guard. Each engine generates 2,960...
Looking at African liberation through its first post-colonial presidency
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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In the book’s dazzling second chapter, “Black is a Country,” French articulates an intellectual genealogy that begins with crucial 19th-century global figures such as David Walker, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Africanus Horton. Rejecting the Western...
Migrants detained in Africa ‘face torture, sexual abuse’, with EU policy blamed for adding to problem
The Irish Times
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A new report has alleged migrants in the west African country of Mauritania were subjected to systematic abuse, including rape and torture, by security and border personnel in the country – and that EU migration policy exacerbated the problem. The...
Lamola outlines South Africa’s foreign policy wins ahead of G20 Summit
IOL
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South Africa is cementing its role as a formidable player on the regional and international stage, delivering a string of diplomatic achievements and strategic foreign policy moves designed to strengthen the continent and global partnerships. In a...
Greater Horn of Africa headed for depressed rainfall in October to December season
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
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August 27, 2025
Climate scientists at the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), have forecast depressed rainfall in the greater horn of Africa region. In a forecast released during the 71st Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF...
South Africa: Green hydrogen could unlock RE boom
ESI Africa
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August 27, 2025
Green hydrogen has the potential to increase the local renewable energy industry and generation infrastructure by using production flexibility and the ability to enlarge equipment in order to sell power into the national grid. This is according to...
Bakadaji Hotel: A Jewel of Comfort And Culture On The Smiling Coast
The Voice Gambia
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August 27, 2025
By: Yunus S. Saliu As part of efforts to boost domestic tourism across The Gambia, affectionately known as the Smiling Coast of Africa, the Gambia Tourism Board (GTB) has embarked on a Familiarization Tour (FAM-Tour), visiting places like Bakadaji...
Morocco’s Atlantic Strategy Charts New Course for Africa’s Economic Integration
Morocco World News
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August 27, 2025
Rabat – Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita said on Tuesday in Rabat that King Mohammed VI’s vision places the sea at the center of Morocco’s development, continental connection, and sovereignty. At the opening of a seminar on...
CDD cautions against rising military populism in West Africa
The Cable
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August 27, 2025
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa) says it is concerned about the resurgence and normalisation of military rule in parts of West and Central Africa. In a statement on Tuesday, Dauda Garuba, Director of CDD-West Africa, said...
Largest cities in Africa as of 2025, by number of inhabitants
Star
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Africa’s urban population is expanding rapidly, with major cities continuing to attract millions of residents due to economic opportunities, infrastructure growth, and migration from rural areas. According to Statista (July 2025), Cairo, Egypt,...
Scientists split giraffes in Africa into 4 distinct species
Sabah
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August 27, 2025
Giraffes are a majestic sight in Africa with their long necks and distinctive spots. Now it turns out there are four different giraffe species on the continent, according to a new scientific analysis recently released. Researchers previously...
(Hello Africa) Kaleta Hydropower Station embodies vitality of China-Guinea energy cooperation
Star
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Photo taken on May 3, 2025, shows a 20,000-Guinean franc banknote bearing the image of the Kaleta Hydropower Station, with the Kaleta Hydropower Station in the background in Dubreka, Guinea. (CWE/Handout via Xinhua) On the Konkoure River flowing...