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Why Jesse Marsch is under Concacaf investigation and Canada's response
The Athletic
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June 20, 2025
Canada Soccer says it is working to “resolve this matter” after Concacaf opened an investigation into Canada men’s national team coach Jesse Marsch on Wednesday. Concacaf initiated disciplinary proceedings over the possibility that Canada Soccer...
Champagne ‘harvest of shame treated workers like slaves’
The Times
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At least 14 champagne houses used grapes picked by illegal immigrants deprived of food, housed in insalubrious conditions and treated like slaves, a court has heard. One of the pickers said that even animals enjoyed better conditions. The claims...
French trial exposes human trafficking among champagne workers
BBC
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Conditions for grape-pickers in France's champagne business lie at the heart of a human trafficking trial that has opened in the eastern city of Reims. Three people – a woman from Kyrgyzstan, a man from Georgia and a Frenchman – are accused of...
US refuses visas for members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team, says its PM
The Straits Times
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June 19, 2025
Senegal Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko told his country’s minister of sports to cancel what was to have been a 10-day training camp in the US.PHOTO: AFP DAKAR – The United States rejected visa applications for members of Senegal’s women’s basketball...
Canada’s Suspended Marsch Under New Concacaf Investigation, Laments Lack of Acclimation Time at Gold Cup
Sports Illustrated - New York
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June 19, 2025
Canada’s men’s national team head coach, Jesse Marsch, is in hot water again, despite already being suspended. Currently serving a two-match suspension for his actions in the Concacaf Nations League Third-Place match against the U.S. men’s...
French champagne makers face human trafficking trial
Citizen TV Kenya
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June 19, 2025
Three French employers in the champagne sector will go on trial on Thursday accused of human trafficking, exploiting and housing seasonal workers in appalling conditions, during grape picking in eastern France in 2023. Around 50 migrant harvesters...
KQ Drops Fares to 16 Destinations
Kenyans.co.ke
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July 2, 2025
Kenya Airways has announced significant reductions in fares, offering passengers discounts on flights to several local and international destinations. In a statement on Wednesday, 2 July, the national carrier confirmed discounts of 20 per cent on...
US refuses visa for members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team: PM
The Sun Daily
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June 19, 2025
DAKAR: The United States rejected visa applications for multiple members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team which was scheduled to train in the country, the country’ prime minister said Thursday, as he cancelled the group’s participation in the...
Cheetahs leave for 2025 Rugby Africa Men’s Sevens Cup
New Zimbabwe
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June 19, 2025
By Sports Reporter The Zimbabwe Senior Men’s Sevens Rugby Team, the Cheetahs, left the country on Wednesday morning for Mauritius, where they will compete at the 2025 Rugby Africa Men’s Sevens Cup. Scheduled to run from the 21st to the 23rd of...
Where to Rock Climb: The Top Spots Worldwide
Newsweek
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July 2, 2025
By Matthew Tostevin is a senior editor at Newsweek and is responsible for editorial standards. He has reported from around the world for more than three decades on everything from conflict and politics to economics, business, the environment and...
Ghana court orders deportation of Nigerian fake currency smuggler
New National Star
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July 2, 2025
A Ghanaian court has ordered the deportation of a Nigerian, Aremu Adegboyega, who was convicted for smuggling counterfeit currency valued at over $100,000 into the country through an illegal border. Justice Christiana Cann of the Accra Circuit...
The fixtures Premier League’s Afcon stars will miss – including one huge potential title clash
The Independent
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June 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Chinese company helps Cote d’Ivoire transform ‘white gold’ into prosperity
Borneo Post
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June 18, 2025
Rubber farmers unload rubber from a tricycle at a plantation in Grand-Bereby, Cote d’Ivoire on May 30, 2025. – Xinhua photo ABIDJAN (June 19): At the break of dawn in Grand-Bereby, a town in southwestern Cote d’Ivoire’s San Pedro department,...
Ghana deports convicted Nigerian for smuggling fake $100,000
Punch
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July 1, 2025
A Nigerian, Aremu Adegboyega, convicted by a Circuit Court in Accra, Ghana, for smuggling counterfeit CFA francs worth over $100,000 into the country through an unauthorised border route will be deported to Nigeria, PUNCH Metro learnt on Monday....
The Uproar
Literary Hub
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June 30, 2025
The following is from Karim Dimechkie's The Uproar. Dimechkie’s first novel, Lifted by the Great Nothing was published in 2015. Dimechkie was a Fellow of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and his writing can be...
Lighting up local enterprises: How a 24-hour economy policy can boost SMEs
Business and Financial Times
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July 1, 2025
By Felix Larry ESSILFIE (PhD) Ghana’s policy debate has converged on the proposition that extending economic activity beyond daylight hours could unlock a fresh growth impulse anchored in the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) segment. A 24-hour...
Ghana Court Jails 55-Year-Old Nigerian Trader For Smuggling Fake Currency, Orders Deportation
Sahara Reporters
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The Circuit Court in Accra has sentenced a 55-year-old Nigerian trader, Aremu Timothy Adegboyega, to prison for smuggling large sums of counterfeit currency into Ghana through an illegal border crossing. Presided over by her honour, Christiana...
Esther Dyson to deliver keynote at 12th Angel Fair Africa in New York City
Joy FM
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July 1, 2025
Renowned angel investor and tech visionary Esther Dyson will headline the 12th edition of Angel Fair Africa (AFA@12) as keynote speaker when the event makes its historic debut in the United States on 19th September, 2025. Hosted at Google’s 9th...
ASKY Airlines under scrutiny
The New Dawn Liberia
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June 30, 2025
A series of missteps and poor handling of passengers is creating concerns among Liberians about the operations of ASKY Airlines, which makes flights to Liberia via Côte d’Ivoire and Accra, Ghana. By Stephen G. Fellajuah Monrovia, Liberia; June 30,...
Designer Sarah Diouf On Launching Her Beyoncé-Approved African Luxury Label Tongoro
Essence
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June 30, 2025
To put it plainly, Sarah Diouf is an image architect. The designer with a degree in visual communication spent the better part of her early twenties spearheading a magazine. She tells me over a call that this portion of her life fueled her...