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رايد كلاس ClassRide: A Success Story Born in Africa, From Mauritania to the Continent
ABC Money
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August 5, 2025
The path taken by رايد كلاس ClassRide is a great test of this assertion. It’s a story of triumph that began in Mauritania, a West African nation, and has grown in stages to influence daily life across the African continent. Mauritania, with its...
African immigrant’s body found week after he disappears swimming at Queens Rockaway Beach
New York Daily News
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August 4, 2025
A young African immigrant’s body has been found days after he went missing swimming at Rockaway Beach in Queens, police said Monday. The 23-year-old man’s body was found washed ashore on Rockaway Beach near Beach 25th St. Friday, police said. He...
Amid GAY airport row, a look at other unusual codes across the world
Hindustan Times
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August 6, 2025
On August 5, A BJP MP took exception to the airport code of Gaya International Airport. The code ‘GAY’ was “socially and culturally” offensive, according to Bhim Singh who sought that the government change it to a “more respectful and culturally...
Milwaukee woman charged in Brady Street crash that killed West African immigrant
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin
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A 22-year-old Milwaukee woman fled a traffic stop, causing a fatal crash, according to prosecutors. The crash killed Al-Mukhtar Sidiya, a West African immigrant working as a rideshare driver. The incident highlights the ongoing debate surrounding...
Gambian Islamic Students Decry Tedious Access to Documents in Mauritania
Foroyaa Newspaper
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August 1, 2025
By Nelson Manneh Gambian students studying in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have voiced their frustrations and concerns regarding numerous challenges, including difficulties in accessing necessary documentation and experiences of...
Gambia Hosts National Workshop to Strengthen Capacity for Achieving SDG 6 on Water and Sanitation
The Voice Gambia
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August 6, 2025
By: Yunus S. Saliu The Ministry of Fisheries, Water Resources, and National Assembly Matters, in collaboration with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), UNESCO, and key development partners, on Tuesday, 5th...
New issue of Sharjah Cultural highlights global creativity
Sharjah24
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ditorial team contributions Managing Editor Nawaf Younes contributed an essay titled “Music… A Culture and Universal Language”, describing music as one of the most enduring human artistic expressions across and as a powerful —from Assyrian and...
Pentagon: U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Have Failed Africans
The Intercept
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August 5, 2025
The Intercept has been chronicling the U.S. military’s futile counterterrorism efforts on the African continent for the last decade. We have reported on increases in the number and reach of terror groups, rising militant attacks, spikes in...
EMMANUEL MWAMBA OF PF AMONG 388 ZAMBIANS OVERSTAYING IN AMERICA
Zambian Observer
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August 6, 2025
EMMANUEL MWAMBA OF PF AMONG 388 ZAMBIANS OVERSTAYING IN AMERICA The US government has introduced a non-refundable visa bond of $15,000 for Zambia and several other African countries due to the growing number of their nationals overstaying their...
With qawwali and couscous, a New York café is bridging cultural chasms – and winning loyal fans
Scroll.in
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A few months ago, when Sadia Khatri, a young writer from Karachi, was helping organise a tribute in New York for Sabeen Mahmud, the Pakistani human rights activist killed in 2015, she didn’t think twice before suggesting that it be held at Barzakh...
Turkmenistan, Mauritania Discuss Expansion Of Transport And Logistics Co-Op
MENAFN
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July 31, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, July 31. Turkmenistan and Mauritania have expressed interest in strengthening transport and logistics ties, Trend reports, citing the Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to the UN Office at Geneva....
Trump’s deportation deals signal a troubling shift in US-Africa relations
Institute for Security Studies
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Trump’s deportation deals signal a troubling shift in US-Africa relations Eswatini and South Sudan are just two on a list of many African countries America has asked to accept violent criminals. Published on 06 August 2025 in ISS Today By Kelly E...
From a Dream of Reaching Europe to a Tunisian Prison: Gambian Immigrant Receives a 25-Year Jail Sentence
The Fatu Network
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July 30, 2025
- Advertisement - By: Dawda Baldeh In the pursuit of success, there exists a thin line of regrettable choices. Lasana Baldeh, a Gambian migrant, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in Tunisia for allegedly facilitating multiple financial...
Luminous Success Story Inaugurated in Mauritania
The Good Men Project - California
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July 30, 2025
— We often associate successful stories with developed and advanced countries or big tech hubs in Europe or Asia, or technological industries like Silicon Valley in the US. But surprisingly powerful innovations sometimes originate in unexpected...
State Dept: Trump’s “Third Countries” for Immigrants Have Awful Human Rights Records
The Intercept
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July 29, 2025
The United States is building an unprecedented network of deportee dumping grounds, pursuing deals with around a third of the world’s nations to expel immigrants to places where they do not hold citizenship. Once exiled, these third-country...
Gambian students in Mauritania cry out over detention & deportation
The Point
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Despite diplomatic appeals and months of outreach, the students say their situation has worsened prompting questions about the strength and fairness of bilateral ties between the two nations. Essa Jammeh, a Gambian Islamic Studies and Arabic...
Spanish far right intensifies anti-immigrant assaults under PSOE-Sumar government
World Socialist Web Site
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July 29, 2025
Fascist mob in Torre Pacheco, Spain [Photo: Guillermo Rocafort @GuillermoRocaf1]In Spain, far-right groups are continuing the offensive against immigrants under the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE)-Sumar government. For two consecutive weekends,...
Mauritania's new US friendship group fuels anger amid Gaza war
The New Arab
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July 24, 2025
The US has provided Israel at least $17.9 billion in military aid since 7 October 2023. [Getty] In Mauritania, a newly launched parliamentary friendship group between Nouakchott and the United States has ignited outrage in the Northwest African...
99% of Interfaith Marriage Bans Found in Muslim Nations
Patheos
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July 27, 2025
Using freedom of interfaith marriage as an indicator of religious pluralism, this study reveals that 99% of legal restrictions on interfaith unions are imposed by Islamic countries. Specifically, 32 out of 53 Muslim-majority countries (60.4%)...
lifestyle Singaporeans continue to hold world's most powerful passport in latest ranking
Asiaone
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July 23, 2025
SINGAPORE — Singaporeans continue to hold the world's most powerful passport, with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 193 destinations out of 227 globally, according to the latest Henley Passport Index released on July 22. The Republic...