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Man Travelling from Sierra Leone Caught With $1.36 Million Worth of Cocaine in His Stomach
Sierraloaded
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June 25, 2025
Indian authorities have arrested an Ivory Coast national who was caught smuggling 1.13 kilograms of cocaine into the country after arriving from Sierra Leone. The arrest took place at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai...
Frimpong Manso joins FIFA TDS programme in Abidjan
Ghanaian Times
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June 26, 2025
The National U17 male team’s Head Coach, Stephen Frimpong Manso, is leading Ghana’s three-man technical delegation at the ongoing FIFA Youth National Team Coaches Exchange Programme in Côte d’Ivoire. Coach Frimpong Manso, Assistant U-17 Coach,...
Alex Berger, Larry Kasanoff, Shuzo John Shiota Set to Talk at Abidjan’s SICA as It Debates African AI, Shooting in Abidjan, Building a Globalized Market
Variety
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June 24, 2025
Alex Berger, producer of “The Bureau” and “La Maison,” Larry Kasanoff, behind the “Mortal Kombat” franchise, and Shuzo John Shiota, producer of “Transformers: Prime” will join a swathe of African and European voices set to debate the future of...
Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump’s Travel Bans?
The American Prospect
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June 23, 2025
In her early nineties, my mother had emergency surgery to remove her gallbladder, which had somehow managed to flip over and begun to rot. The physician who performed the surgery—from which she recovered completely—was an Iranian immigrant. I was...
US rejects visas for Senegal women's basketball team amid sweeping travel bans announced by Donald Trump
Sportskeeda
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June 21, 2025
Multiple reports came out last week that U.S. President Donald Trump is considering expanding a travel ban that originally included only 12 countries. Trump plans to add 36 more countries to the list. Although the Republican leader has not signed...
US Travel Ban: Senegal women's basketball teammates denied visas
GhanaWeb
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June 20, 2025
The United States of America (USA) have refused to grant visas to some members of Senegal's women basketball team who were scheduled to train in the country on June 19, 2025. The team had planned to train in the US ahead of the Afrobasket 2025...
African radio leaders discuss strategic transformation in Abidjan
Xinhua News Agency
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ABIDJAN, June 19 (Xinhua) -- African radio leaders gathered here on Thursday to reflect on the strategic transformation of radio stations in the new era aimed at enhancing technological innovation, financial resilience and content sovereignty....
TUI to launch first ever hotel in lesser-visited African country known for its beach resorts
The Sun
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June 19, 2025
TUI is opening its very first hotel in Côte d'Ivoire - an African country with beautiful beach resorts and rainforests. In fact, more than 20 hotels are set to open in Africa in the coming months and years. 4 Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa has...
US warns of expanded travel ban that could affect key African markets
ICEF Monitor
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June 19, 2025
"The United States is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration early this month," reports The Washington Post. The...
US threatens 36 more countries with travel bans — mapped
The Times
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The Trump administration has given dozens of countries an ultimatum to improve the vetting of their travellers to the US or risk being blacklisted. The State Department identified 36 countries in danger of joining the 12 already subject to US...
Liberia: President Boakai Sets Up Special Taskforce to Address Potential U.S. Travel Ban
Front Page Africa
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June 19, 2025
The Executive Mansion says President Boakai has already chaired the first meeting of the special taskforce. Credit: Executive Mansion. President Boakai has set up a special committee to investigate growing concerns of a possible US travel ban on...
Australian neighbours in possible new 36-nation US travel ban, but America-bound Aussie travel grows
KARRYON
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June 16, 2025
The memo, seen by The Washington Post, shows the new restrictions would apply to 25 African nations, including Egypt, as well as numerous countries in the Caribbean and Central Asia. Multiple Pacific Island nations also feature in the list,...
Trump Administration May Possibly Add 36 Countries To Latest Travel Ban List
Travel Noire
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June 18, 2025
The Trump administration may subject 36 countries to full or partial travel bans, which would extend the list of 19 countries it restricted earlier this month. The Washington Post relayed a list of the allegedly proposed 36 countries. The outlet...
Gold, Cocoa, and Tourism: Ghana Must Rethink Its Economic Future — William Savary
New Crusading Guide
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June 18, 2025
Accra, Ghana – Chief Executive Officer of Soley Advisory Group, William Savary, is calling for a bold rethinking of Ghana’s economic strategy, urging policymakers to leverage the country’s gold reserves, develop value-added industries, and unlock...
Trump gives 36 countries Wednesday deadline to avoid travel ban
FOX 10 Phoenix - Arizona
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FILE-President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House on April 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) President Donald Trump has given 36 countries a Wednesday deadline to commit to improve its...
Revealed: Analyst details motivation for Trump’s sprawling travel bans
AlterNet
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June 18, 2025
Although Donald Trump enacted a travel ban during his first presidency, he is taking it much further this time. Trump is now imposing either total travel bans or travel restrictions on 19 different countries. And according to reporting in The New...
Trump administration may add 25 more African countries to travel ban
BusinessLIVE
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Most (25) of the countries that could face a full or a partial ban if they do not address these concerns within the next 60 days are African: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Cameroon, Ivory Coast,...
US demands response from 36 countries - including Angola - to avoid travel restrictions on their citizens
Ver Angola
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A diplomatic cable sent over the weekend by the State Department instructs embassies and consulates in 36 countries to assess their hosts’ willingness by Wednesday to improve their citizens’ travel documentation and take steps to address the...
Trump administration weighs adding 25 African countries to travel ban
Times LIVE
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Most (25) of the countries that could face a full or a partial ban if they do not address these concerns within the next 60 days are African: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire,...
Trump Admin Gives 36 Countries New Deadline to Avoid Travel Ban
Newsweek
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June 17, 2025
The Trump administration has given 36 countries—most of them in Africa—a deadline of Wednesday to commit to strengthening travel vetting procedures or face the possibility of a travel ban on their citizens entering the United States. A diplomatic...