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Vusi Nova releases emotional soul track Phendula as he transforms heartbreak into healing through music across South Africa
TDPel Media
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June 15, 2025
We’ve all had those moments when a song speaks exactly what we’re feeling—especially in heartbreak. And right on cue, Vusi Nova has released a brand-new single that does just that. Titled Phendula, the track dropped on Friday, 13 June, and it’s...
New research shows Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion
Islam Channel
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June 15, 2025
Islam was the fastest-growing religion in the world during the decade leading up to 2020, according to estimates from the Pew Research Centre. From 2010 to 2020, the number of Muslims increased by 347 million people to 2.0 billion people. Muslims...
Ibukun Awosika Launches African Marketplace Dubai 2025
Fresh Angle
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The Ibukun Awosika Leadership Academy (IALA) is proud to announce the debut edition of African Marketplace Dubai 2025 platform that aggregates the finest export-ready SMEs, brands, and products from Africa and the Caribbean, spanning fashion,...
View 47,000-plus works at IU Eskenazi Museum of Art in online portal
Martinsville Reporter-Times - Indiana
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Standing next to paintings, sculpture and other artwork in a museum isn't necessary anymore and Indiana University's Eskenazi Museum of Art offers "Collections Online." It's a web-based portal the museum has initiated and is now working to expand...
Del-York Group partners with Tribeca Festival to present African Film Spotlight, supported by Afreximbank, BOI, UN Women
Pulse
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June 15, 2025
Del-York Group proudly announces its partnership with the world-renowned Tribeca Festival to unveil the African Film Spotlight a premier platform that champions Africa’s cinematic storytelling, cultural ingenuity, and creative potential on the...
Vibrant celebration of Black culture and history draws crowds to Rochester’s Juneteenth parade and festival
WHEC 10 - New York
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June 15, 2025
The day's major News events, business reports, sports updates, Rochester area weather information and tomorrow's forecast are presented by the News10NBC Team. ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission held its...
Outsmarting cybercriminals: How South Africa’s youth can protect themselves online
Cape Town ETC
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June 15, 2025
As South Africa celebrates Youth Month, we must confront a pressing issue that increasingly threatens the nation’s younger generation: cybercrime. While today’s youth are digital natives, their fluency in technology often breeds a dangerous...
Gut-Care Africa and Tusk Foundation celebrate fathers with health, food, and fitness event
Graphic
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June 14, 2025
In celebration of Father’s Day, the Gut-Care Africa Foundation, in partnership with the Tusk Foundation, hosted a vibrant community health event on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at the Tusk Basketball Court in Adenta East. The event combined free...
World's most secretive society meets in Sweden as tensions between Europe and Trump reach boiling point
Daily Mail
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June 15, 2025
The annual Bilderberg Meeting is underway in Sweden, providing a private forum for discussion at a time when President Donald Trump has upended security and economic ties between the US and Europe. The high-level networking event was formed in...
Economic Watch: China-Africa expo showcases vitality of economic, trade cooperation
Xinhua News Agency
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by Xinhua writer Zhao Zhiqin CHANGSHA, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, themed "China and Africa: Together Toward Modernization," opened on Thursday in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. The...
Using Art Diplomacy for Strengthening Russian-African ties
The News Chronicle
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June 15, 2025
On June 9, 2025, a Round Table discussion was held as part of the historical and patriotic project “Heirs of Russian Military Glory” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. The moderator,...
Hardly Firstborn or Lastborn: Study into Religious Formation Shows African Sister Most Likely to Be Middle Child
ACI Africa
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June 14, 2025
“As a lastborn, your African parents do not stop looking at you as their baby. You are their baby. And so, letting you go is never easy,” she said. Asked whether there is any specific way in which the middle children behave in Religious Life in...
“Give us work”: Women Religious in Research End Maiden Symposium with Unique Invitation to Catholic Dioceses in Africa
ACI Africa
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June 15, 2025
Credit: ACI Africa Held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in Nairobi, CERRA-Africa’s maiden research symposium brought together researchers from various ICLSAL across Africa and CERRA-Africa’s collaborators from other continents,...
Sisters' Orders in Africa Sending “seniors” for Further Studies Challenged to Give Younger Nuns Education Opportunities
ACI Africa
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June 13, 2025
Credit: ACI Africa “Medical courses came in at a low level, even though it is a traditional field in the Church,” Sr. Mary said. She noted that Sisters pursuing college education put into consideration the charisms of their Congregations as they...
When Black spirituality meets online culture
St Louis American - Missouri
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June 15, 2025
Stay Informed, Stay Empowered in STL Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. In an age shaped by scrolls as much as sermons, Black spirituality is undergoing a...
Researchers Explore Ways to Sustain Catholic Nuns’ Monasteries in Africa amid Severe Scarcity
ACI Africa
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June 15, 2025
The study found out that Nuns in Monasteries were relying on outdated, and therefore, inefficient equipment for production of hosts and other commodities which they sold for the communities’ sustenance. Credit: ACI Africa Issues regarding...
Brilliant Black minds in US, Africa and Middle East unite to advance digital talent bank for Africa’s future at 6th Annual AFRICA’s BRAIN BANK® Summit in New York
Baltimore Afro-American - Maryland
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June 15, 2025
Industry changemakers and Black stakeholders from African Diaspora establish global intellectual network as solution to Africa’s brain drain HOUSTON, (June 11, 2025) – Africa’s booming youth quake and projected 2.5 billion residents by 2050 have...
New York research centre celebrates 100 years of documenting Black culture
Africanews
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June 15, 2025
It’s one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country – and its most devoted supporters say not enough people know about it. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture hopes to change that Saturday, as it celebrates its...
YOUTH DAY | How gender‑based violence is scarring South Africa’s youth
IOL
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South Africa’s youth are paying a heavy mental price for a crisis that has become painfully commonplace: gender-based violence (GBV). Whether in homes, schools or communities, exposure to inappropriate conduct, ranging from bullying and harassment...
How East Africa's opposition has been muzzled
The Standard
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Activists Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire narrating their harrowing experiences in the hands of Tanzanian Authorities. June 3, 2025. [Benard Orwongo, Standard] As opposition gets muzzled in East African countries, the torture of human rights...