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Central Bank Cracks Down on Currency Hoarding
Number One Citizen Daily
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September 4, 2025
By Kei Emmanuel Duku The Bank of South Sudan (BoSS) has implemented new, sweeping financial reforms by prohibiting hoarding both local and foreign currency and commodities. The circular issued yesterday and by BoSS governor Dr. Addis Ababa Othow...
Opinion – Dinka fattening tradition risks lives, it’s time for change.
Eye Radio
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August 29, 2025
Author: Lady Kola | Published: 6 hours ago Man in fattening competition - photo credit: courtesy In South Sudan, culture is the heartbeat of who we are. It connects us to our ancestors and gives meaning to our lives. As a proud Dinka daughter, I...
US removes 2,310 Nigerians
Punch
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September 6, 2025
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has removed at least 2,310 Nigerian nationals from the country between 2014 and 2024. A review of the agency’s annual reports and appendices also revealed that 20 removals have been recorded so...
Turbulence 101: What Pilots Wish Passengers Knew
Simple Flying
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September 7, 2025
Turbulence refers to the unstable cabin conditions that are often experienced aboard flights, as shaking and stomach-churning increases and decreases in altitude. It is usually a comfort rather than a safety concern, although a Singapore Airlines...
Central Bank warns against hoarding of currency
The City Review
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September 4, 2025
In a circular describing two hoarding illegalities, BoSS says the directive seeks to curb speculative practices that destabilize the foreign exchange and goods markets By Aguok Chok The Bank of South Sudan (BoSS) has issued a stern warning against...
Upper Nile governor launches second commissioners’ forum in Malakal
Eye Radio
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September 1, 2025
Author: Elsheikh Chol Ajeing | Published: 7 hours ago Upper Nile State Governor James Koang Chuol address media at the State House on Monday - Photo credit: PPU The Governor of Upper Nile State has today launched the Second County Commissioners’...
Michael Rider Talks His Celine Debut, Early Teaching Career, & Lessons From Ralph Lauren
W Magazine
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September 5, 2025
If there is one mantra that has served Michael Rider well throughout his two-decade-long career in fashion, it is this: “I never want to be the last one at a party,” he says, with the sort of casual confidence that can come only from experience....
Sebastião Salgado’s final thoughts: ‘If we lived thousands of years, we would think differently: we would understand the mountains’
El País
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September 5, 2025
“I’m not the best photographer in the world, I’m the hardest-working,” Sebastião Salgado told me in a soft voice. His almost perfect Spanish was enhanced by the calm, melodious cadence of his Portuguese: “A photographer belongs to a breed apart:...
Football star settles for DR Congo, set for debut senior appearance
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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September 4, 2025
Aaron Wan-Bissaka has pledged his international future to the Democratic Republic of Congo, earning a first call-up to the Leopards after years of uncertainty over his allegiance. The 27-year-old full-back, who sealed a summer move to West Ham...
Adelaide's high society tier list: Unholy gossips leak the City of Churches' hidden hierarchy - from a 'very aspirational' couple to the blow-in WAG who 'irked' all the footy wives
Daily Mail
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September 5, 2025
Adelaide may not have the flashing lights of Sydney or Melbourne, but make no mistake - its social scene is thriving, with exclusivity that rivals the east coast elite. From Hollywood stars to models, fashion heavyweights, AFL heroes and Instagram...
August Jobs Report Signals Impending Job Cuts At Bureau Of Labor Statistics
Wonkette - Michigan
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September 5, 2025
Wonkette’s cat economist Professor Prettypaws has been arrested and presumably deported to Katmandu. Or Mew Zealand. Maybe Pawtagonia. (Original cat mug shot: Bangkok police, via South China Morning Post) A month after Donald Trump shitcanned the...
Building Homegrown Instant Payment Systems to Drive Financial Inclusion in Africa By Dr Robert Ochola
Sahara Reporters
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Africa is undergoing a digital transformation, marked by rising mobile phone adoption even in remote regions, rapid fintech innovation, and the steady growth of digital public infrastructure such as interoperable payment systems and digital ID...
Goal and Highlights for Angola 0-1 Libya in 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Match
VAVEL
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September 4, 2025
Thanks! And that's all for now! Thank you so much for watching this World Cup Qualifying match, which continues in full swing here on VAVEL! Stay tuned for more matches from the competition throughout the week. Good afternoon, and see you next...
Highlights and goals: São Tomé and Príncipe 2-3 Equatorial Guinea in 2026 World Cup Qualifiers
VAVEL
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September 4, 2025
TRANSMISSION ENDS Thank you very much for joining us for our coverage of this African 2026 World Cup qualifier between the São Tomé and Príncipe national team and the Equatorial Guinea national team. Stay tuned for all the latest sports news on...
Lawmakers flagged absence of national carrier
Number One Citizen Daily
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September 6, 2025
TNLA’s session on Thursday highlighted the need for a domestic airline to ensure reciprocal benefits in UAE air agreement | Courtesy photo By Alan Clement Some lawmakers in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly have raised concerns that...
'There Is No Law': Scenes From a Houston Immigration Court in Trump's America
Common Dreams
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September 6, 2025
"I'm here because of due process." In June, a Houston immigration attorney was addressing protesters across the street from a prison owned and operated by CoreCivic for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the Department of...
Cultural expert: Don’t ban, help communities modify cultural practices to preserve heritage
Eye Radio
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August 30, 2025
Author: James Atem Kuir | Published: 6 hours ago Prof. Deng Nhial Chioh, the Director of Development of Tangible Cultural Heritage at the Ministry of Culture, Museums and National Heritage - Photo credit: X profile of Prof. Deng Nhial Chioh The...
Play It Again Sports General Scoreboard - Friday, Sept. 5, 2025
EdGlenToday - Illinois
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September 6, 2025
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS SCOREBOARD BOYS SOCCER Belleville Althoff Catholic 4, Quincy 1 Lebanon 3, Waterloo Gibault Catholic 1 Mascoutah 0, Chicago Von Steuben 0 GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Columbia 25-25, Bloomington 14-17 Edwardsville...
Moment man smokes massive 'roll up' outside migrant hotel in 'posh' UK city
Daily Express
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September 3, 2025
A man stood outside a migrant hotel on a posh street in Edinburgh was filmed smoking an 'oversized roll-up'.The male was pictured puffing away dressed in a South Sudan basketball t-shirt outside the Learmouth Hotel in the Scottish capital on...
Rights without responsibilities empty
Zimbabwe Independent
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THE discourse of rights generates more heat than light THE discourse of rights generates more heat than light. It is a discourse that is often approached with arguments of relativism depending on one’s location, socialisation, orientation,...