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Google, Microsoft, TikTok Lead Efforts in Tackling Online Harms as NITDA Releases 2024 Compliance Report
TechEconomy
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August 20, 2025
Advertisements In a year marked by global debates on digital safety, Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has shone a spotlight on the role of major tech platforms in protecting users from online harms. The Agency,...
Adamawa Govt Reunites 14 Trafficked Children With Parents
The News Chronicle
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August 20, 2025
Tears of both joy and sorrow filled Yola on Wednesday as 14 children abducted and trafficked from Adamawa to Anambra State were reunited with their parents. At the event, Adamawa Deputy Governor, Prof. Kaletapwa George Farauta, described child...
Nigeria News17 minutes ago BREAKING: FG Shuts Down Over 13 Million Social Media Accounts The Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government has confirmed the closure of about 13,597,057 social media accounts belonging to users of platforms such as TikTok,…
Naija News
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August 20, 2025
Naija News reports that the various social media platforms were shutdown because of offensive content and violations of the Code of Practice. The action against the platforms was disclosed in the Code of Practice 2024 Compliance Report submitted...
Stakeholders must partner VODEC Africa to spotlight innovation of the Ghanaian youth
Ghana News Agency
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August 20, 2025
By Albert Allotey Accra, Aug. 20, GNA – VODEC Africa, a development-oriented organisation, has launched the National Emerging Leaders’ Economic Forum (NELEF) 2025 with a call on stakeholders to partner it to spotlight the innovation of the...
The Projector founder calls on Singaporeans to support creative and cultural businesses for S’pore to thrive as cinema announces closure
The Independent Singapore
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August 20, 2025
SINGAPORE: “If Singapore wants to thrive, it must find a way for creative and cultural businesses to survive — because culture is the cornerstone of identity and civil society,” The Projector founder Karen Tan wrote on Instagram as the cinema...
Ghost Coalitions: How the KMT-TPP Alliance Can Inform Taiwan’s Political Future
Ketagalan Media - California
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August 20, 2025
This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 10, Issue 15. Used with permission. To get the Global Taiwan Brief in your inbox every week, subscribe at...
How Jim Chalmers’ ‘boardroom blitz’ roundtable kicked off
Crikey
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August 20, 2025
The government’s much-debated economic roundtable is underway — here’s how it’s going so far. Jim Chalmers during the Economic Reform Roundtable (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas) After weeks of build-up, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has set out his objectives...
At TICAD9 Conference In Japan, Tinubu Lauds Nigeria’s Armed Forces For Their Success Over Insurgency, Criminality
This Day
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August 20, 2025
* Says military’s current momentum is path for national development and stability * Japan PM promises $5.5bn support for Africa * Seeks Africa’s support towards tackling problem of declining population Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Tinubu...
Transparency push: Romualdez, Tingog seek to open budget process to civil society observers
Politiko
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July 31, 2025
By Billy Begas Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez and the representatives of the Tingog party-list have jointly filed a resolution seeking to designate civil society groups as official non-voting observers in the budget hearings of the Committee...
Address digital gaps for gender equality — Participants
Graphic
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August 20, 2025
The 2025 Rise Women’s Conference (RiWoCo) in Accra has warned that Ghana risks losing ground on gender equality if barriers to women’s participation in the digital economy and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are not...
Deputy Mayor of Oswestry joins diamond anniversary celebrations for Oswestry Community Group for retirees
Shropshire Star
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August 20, 2025
Civil Service Retirement Fellowship (CSRF) Chief Executive David Tickner visited the Oswestry group this week to present them with a Diamond Group Award recognising their support of the CSRF’s charitable services at a special Diamond Anniversary...
Aurelien – The War Was The Easy Bit…Just wait until we get to the politics.
Brave New Europe
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August 20, 2025
The reality is that Europe since 1945 has been completely dependent upon the US for its security I had originally started to write about something else this week, but on Saturday morning I began to catch up with the fallout from the Trump/Putin...
UAE: $100b in foreign aid reach 1b lives, 206 countries
Gulf News
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International organizations have praised the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for its leading role and unwavering efforts in global humanitarian work, highlighting the contributions of its leadership, government, people, and local humanitarian partners,...
As G20 host, SA cannot afford to allow whistle-blower protection to remain rhetorical
Daily Maverick
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August 20, 2025
As South Africa assumed the presidency of the G20 this year, it finds itself at a historic crossroads. Among the many issues on the agenda, none carries greater immediacy for our domestic governance landscape than the protection of...
Boycotting genocide: Italy's civil society stands with Palestine
The New Arab
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July 31, 2025
While Israel’s massacres in Gaza and the West Bank continue, solidarity for Palestinians around the world is growing. This is true even in countries like Italy, where the government maintains critical support for Tel Aviv. Yet, over recent months,...
MLS takes judicial reforms to presidential hopefuls
The Nation Malawi
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August 20, 2025
Malawi Law Society (MLS) plans to take implementation of judicial reforms to President Lazarus Chakwera and other presidential candidates whose political parties were represented in the recently dissolved Parliament. The society said it was...
Civil Society Organizations Launches National Platform to Drive Security Sector Reform
Sierraloaded
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July 25, 2025
Civil society organizations (CSOs) in Sierra Leone have announced the launch of a strategic roadmap and the establishment of a National Coordination Platform aimed at advancing Security Sector Reform and Governance (SSRG) across the country. This...
All India Lawyers' Forum For Civil Liberties Moves Kerala High Court Against Bar On Use Of Toilets At Private Fuel Pumps By General Public
Live Law
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August 10, 2025
The All India Lawyers' Forum for Civil Liberties (AILF) has approached the Kerala High Court seeking to be impleaded in the ongoing writ petition, regarding the access to toilets in Petrol Pumps challenging the interim order that restricts...
PACE 51 members sign declaration on "Authoritarian backsliding in Geor...
Georgian Business Consulting
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August 20, 2025
Tbilisi (GBC) – Fifty-one members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have issued a written declaration named “Authoritarian backsliding in Georgia.” The declaration warns that, should Georgia fail to make progress in...
Thabo Mbeki Foundation mulls return to National Dialogue after EPG's invitation
IOL
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The Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF) is reportedly mulling over a return to the National Dialogue process, following an olive branch extended by the Eminent Persons Group (EPG). This comes after several legacy foundations, including the TMF, withdrew...