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French national arrested in Mali over alleged coup plot
The South African
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August 15, 2025
On 14 August 2025, Mali’s Security Minister General Daoud Aly Mohammedine confirmed the arrest of French national Yann Vezilier. Vezilier is accused of working “on behalf of the French intelligence service” to destabilise Mali’s military-led...
UAE, Senegal strengthen partnership on water investment in Africa
Zawya
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Today at the Africa Water Investment Summit, the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Senegal, as co-hosts of the 2026 UN Water Conference, in partnership with AUDA-NEPAD, Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Global Water Partnership...
Civil society organizations consulted throughout the Caribbean to advise CARICOM Migration Policy Framework
Dominica News Online
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August 1, 2025
Group from St Lucia consultation. Photo: IOMIn July 2025, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), working with the CARICOM Secretariat and the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), held eight meetings with over 127 civil society...
Locals attend PS Psychedelic Society event for decriminalizing natural psychedelic plants
KESQ-TV - California
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August 9, 2025
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Palm Springs Psychedelic Society is looking to decriminalize natural psychedelic plants. Organizers and attendees say the plants can be used in medicinal and therapeutic ways. Six California cities have...
Taiwan’s Civil Society Is Not Ready for War
The Diplomat
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August 3, 2025
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and tensions rise in the Taiwan Strait, comparisons between the two flashpoints have become common. But for all the talk of parallels, one glaring lesson remains unheeded in Taipei: civil society must be...
National Convention invitations 'sent to celebs, not indigenous people’
East Coast Radio
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The convention is aimed at setting the agenda for the National Dialogue that will take place across the country in the coming months. However, not everything was off to a good start - a man had to be removed from the podium after he wanted more...
Why forcing civil servants to resign before elections harms Kenya’s democracy
TUKO
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August 9, 2025
Editor's note: In this article, Brian Mwiti, a youth and human rights activist, challenges the law requiring civil servants to resign before contesting elections. Drawing on the law's detrimental impact on political leadership quality and...
NESG Explores How Innovative, Risk-tolerant Financing Models Can Strengthen Nigeria’s Healthcare
Daily Independent
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August 15, 2025
1 Chibuzor Emejor The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), through its Health Policy Commission, has convened a high-level Pre-Summit dialogue to explore how innovative, risk-tolerant financing models can strengthen Nigeria’s healthcare sector,...
Iranian Civil Society Calls for “Life for All, War for No One.”
Dissident Voice
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August 4, 2025
Learn and support this radical, visionary initiative for peace in a wide sense. And share!! by Dissident Voice Communications / August 4th, 2025 We believe that war, wherever and by whomever it is initiated, leads to violence, poverty,...
50 Years Later, Lebanese Women Look for Those Who Disappeared During the Civil War
Media Line
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August 9, 2025
The lack of authorities' interest in finding the 17,425 missing stems from a general amnesty agreement protecting all sides at the end of the war. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Lebanon’s civil war, and much of civil society...
New Alliances Formed in TAPCPR Petition to Abolish Compulsory Surgery
New Bloom Magazine
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August 15, 2025
語言: English Photo Courtesy of TAPCPR ON THE MORNING of August 13, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR)—in collaboration with 44 other civil society groups and 31 experts from a variety of sectors—held a press conference...
LIVE: Ramaphosa slams National Dialogue boycotters: ‘This is the real tent where conversations take place’
IOL
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has slammed those who boycotted the first National Dialogue convention, saying true dialogue is about “bringing people together, getting people to speak together – not to speak to each other.” Ramaphosa made the remarks...
Minister ‘hugely disappointed’ as talks to agree UN plastics treaty fail
Express & Star
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August 15, 2025
Environment minister Emma Hardy has said she is “hugely disappointed” that negotiations for the world’s first treaty to combat plastic pollution ended once again in failure. Delegates were seeking to complete a legally binding international...
Civil procedure law: Article allowing prosecutors to annul final rulings ruled unconstitutional
Hespress
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August 6, 2025
Morocco’s Constitutional Court has struck down several core provisions of the draft civil procedure law, including the controversial Article 17, deeming them unconstitutional. The bill, adopted by Parliament in second reading in June 2025, will...
Manipur has made progress despite challenges: Governor Bhalla
Hindustan Times
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August 15, 2025
Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Friday said that the state has made remarkable progress in recent years adding that it is on the path of progress. Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla was addressing a gathering at Ist Manipur Rifles ground on...
Huge police swoop in Gloucester sees 33 e-bikes and scooters seized
Gloucestershire Live
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August 15, 2025
A police clampdown on illegal electric vehicles in Gloucester has seen 33 of them seized. The force ran Operation Shield on Wednesday, August 13, as part of a drive to cut anti-social behaviour. Alongside the bikes, officers from Gloucester...
Time works differently in Gaza
The Electronic Intifada
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August 15, 2025
Israa Alsigaly The Electronic Intifada 15 August 2025 People mourn their loved ones after a bombing in Khan Younis on 29 July. Abdallah Alattar APA imagesThey say there is a time and place. My experience tells me you might find yourself living in...
Several area residents honored in Civil Air Patrol ceremony
Bowling Green Daily News - Kentucky State
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August 9, 2025
Published 6:00 am Saturday, August 9, 2025 Civil Air Patrol, a non-profit civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force that works with local, state, and federal agencies to provide aerospace education, emergency services, and cadet programs, held a...
CHRR urges youths, women Chiefs, and CSOs in Lufilya to champion peace ahead of elections
Malawi 24
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August 15, 2025
Advertisement The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has called on youths, women chiefs, and civil society organisations (CSOs) in Lufilya Constituency to be champions of peace and avoid any involvement in violence as the nation...
Do Americans Really Want a “Civil War?” Forbid It, Almighty God! - Part 1
The Times Examiner - South Carolina
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August 9, 2025
OUR NATION BARELY SURVIVED A BITTER ELECTION SEASON ENDING ON NOV. 5, 2024. MANY RECKLESS BIG MOUTHS AND PSEUDO THINKERS OF ALL POLITICAL PERSUASIONS ARE CONVINCED THAT ONLY “ANOTHER” CIVIL WAR CAN SALVAGE OUR DISINTEGRATING REPUBLIC. ARE THEY...