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Liberia Moves to Attract Global Fisheries Investment

By Stephen G. Fellajuah Margibi County, Liberia, March 31, 2026 — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has expressed strong optimism that Liberia is taking decisive steps to transform its fisheries sector into a modern, competitive, and investment-ready industry. Delivering the keynote address at the opening of the National Fisheries Investment Conference, the President noted that through the Liberia Sustainable Management of …

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Shelly Kittleson: What we know about the kidnapping of US journalists in Iraq | World News

An American journalist is kidnapped in Iraq. The kidnapping occurred in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to Iraqi officials, who said efforts were underway to find the whistleblower and perpetrators. Middle East Crisis: Follow the latest developments Here’s everything we know about the incident so far. Who was kidnapped? IraqThe Interior Ministry said in a statement that a foreign journalist had …

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Beyond nostalgia: coalition governance and the myth of Nigeria’s “single-party drift”.

Prince Charles Dickson’s recent essay, while undoubtedly elegant and rhetorically compelling, exemplifies a common pitfall in Nigerian political discourse: the tendency to favor evocative analogy over rigorous empirical analysis. To truly understand Nigeria’s political trajectory, a shift away from poetic allusions to historical figures such as Awolowo and Akintola, and towards a clear-eyed examination of contemporary structural realities, including coalition …

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Nigeria gets negative rating in global debt transparency review

According to the results of the Open Budget Survey 2025, Nigeria was rated poorly in terms of transparency, accountability, oversight and public participation in debt management. The report, which assessed publicly available data between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024, identified important gaps in the country’s debt accountability framework, despite the existence of legal and institutional frameworks. The investigation, …

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