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Locked up in Birobidzhan, set free in Bangkok: The wild, wary world of Tommy Sabbatical
TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific
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August 12, 2025
From Russian jail to African villages, YouTuber Tommy Sabbatical immerses deeply in places most travellers avoid, redefining authentic exploration. There are travellers. And then there’s Tommy Sabbatical. At the Extraordinary Travel Festival in...
PM orders BRT fast-track
Daily News Tanzania
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August 14, 2025
DAR ES SALAAM: PRIME Minister Kassim Majaliwa has directed operators of the second phase of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project to work round the clock to ensure the swift completion of infrastructure preparations along the remaining sections of...
African Development Bank backs Ethiopia’s cargo super-airport
Logistics Update Africa
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August 14, 2025
Ethiopia has launched its $10 billion Bishoftu International Airport project, with the African Development Bank as the initial mandated lead arranger, global coordinator, and book runner to mobilise nearly $8 billion of the required financing. The...
Can UNESCO Accommodate Both Preservation and Human Rights?
Foreign Policy
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During a private meeting in Paris last September, an Indigenous Maasai lawyer from Tanzania encouraged leaders from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to remove northern Tanzania’s Ngorongoro...
Voluntourism Spots That Drive Measurable And Sustainable Impact
Forbes
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Voluntourism drives impact getty Voluntourism has often been dismissed as feel-good travel wrapped in good intentions but shallow outcomes. However, when structured well, it can create real, measurable impact for both communities and volunteers....
Lesotho.biz – A Smart Digital Asset Investment
AfricaBusiness.com
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August 13, 2025
The domain name Lesotho.biz is more than just a web address—it is a premium, brandable digital asset that carries the name of an entire country. Short, memorable, and highly relevant, it is ideally positioned for businesses, organizations, and...
Not Just Another Treehouse Hotel: Sleep Inside a Thousand-Year-Old Tree of Life
Wego Travel Blog
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August 7, 2025
Why it’s special: Full-service safari suites within a thousand-year-old baobab trees, perched ten metres above the savanna. You can wake up eye-level with elephants and giraffes. Getting there: Most travellers land at Kilimanjaro International...
Redditch runner raises over £5,000 for Ifakara Bakery Project
Warwickshire World
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August 12, 2025
Enough to Bake 20,000 Loaves of Hope Over £5,000 has been raised for the Ifakara Bakery Project, a locally based charity serving a remote area in Tanzania thanks to the generosity of local donors and the determination of Redditch resident Gez...
A-level results: Prince William, Kate Middleton and Harry's grades with one royal failing
The Mirror
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August 14, 2025
As teenagers across England and Wales nervously receive their A-level results today, in previous years members of the Royal Family have been among them, with not everyone going home with the results they wanted Being a Royal doesn't exempt you...
Cote d'Ivoire to grace East African school games in Kakamega
Star
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St Peter's Mumias, the national rugby 7s champions during last week's nationals/HANDOUT Cote d’Ivoire are expected to field two teams as the 22nd Federation of East African Secondary Schools Sports Association (FEASSSA) games kick off in Kakamega...
4 exotic ticks species 'hitchhiking' on humans identified in Connecticut
WTIC-TV - Connecticut
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August 12, 2025
The tick species identified in Connecticut are from countries including Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize, Tanzania, Germany, Poland, and Scotland. CONNECTICUT, USA — Four tick species that likely traveled across continents while attached to humans...
Ethiopian, AfDB partnership takes off
Business Ghana
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Ethiopia’s ambition to build a new international airport that will rival some of the world’s biggest, took off on Monday with a monumental signing ceremony marking the African Development Bank’s role (www.AfDB.org) as the initial mandated lead...
The $3,500-a-night safari camp that ‘could harm nature’s greatest spectacle’
The Times
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It is billed as nature’s greatest show: each year, two million wildebeest, zebra and antelope sweep through east Africa’s famed reserves in the Great Migration. But conservationists are now fighting to stop the opening of a luxury lodge designed...
From adversity comes strength
Times Online
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August 13, 2025
Dave Becroft, respected teacher at Macleans College for 40 years and counting. Photos supplied One moment 33 years ago dramatically set the permanent course of Dave Becroft’s life. He was destined to stay in New Zealand and teach at Macleans...
This New Private Jet Expedition Lets You Explore All 7 Continents in 29 Days
Robb Report
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August 12, 2025
TCS World Travel is taking the air cruise to new heights. The Seattle-based travel company just unveiled its “most ambitious itinerary to date,” which will allow travelers to visit all seven continents in a month. The 29-day itinerary, aptly named...
Belize Bound
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
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In April of 2025, James Hill, OD, and his medical team journeyed to Belize in collaboration with the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired (BCVI) to support its efforts to improve the quality and availability of eye care for visually impaired...
Sharon Ramona (Mimi) Starr
Portland Tribune - Oregon
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August 13, 2025
July 12, 1944 to July 31, 2025 – Sharon Ramona (Mimi) Starr, 81, of Olympia, Washington, passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, July 31, 2025. She was born on July 12, 1944, in Caldwell, Idaho. Sharon is lovingly remembered by her two...
Culinary diplomacy on display as Kenya and Thailand celebrate Thai food in Nairobi
The Standard
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Thai Ambassador Morakot Jane Mutrakorn and officials savor authentic Thai dishes during the Thai Select Promotion at Thai Chi by Sarova in Lavington, Nairobi. [David Njaaga, Standard] Kenya and Thailand came together in Nairobi for the Thai Select...
TRA rolls out online tax education drive
Daily News Tanzania
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August 10, 2025
DODOMA: TANZANIA Revenue Authority (TRA) yesterday launched a tax education campaign targeting online businesses, ahead of the implementation of a new directive to impose taxes on digital enterprises, particularly those offering accommodation...
Leaders eulogise Ndugai as mentor, defender of justice
The Citizen
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Dodoma. President Samia Suluhu Hassan and other top leaders on Sunday paid glowing tribute to the late former Speaker of the National Assembly, Job Ndugai, describing him as a dedicated mentor, defender of justice and leader committed to...