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  SWITCHED FROM ARUBA TO NETHERLANDS  ▪ 2014: Denzel Dumfries made his debut for the Aruba national team in a double-header against Guam on the same day—he scored his first goal in his very first match. Those two games were his only appearances for the Caribbean nation. Dumfries father is from Aruba , country near Venezuela and Previously under Dutch rule. ▪ 2025: Eleven years later, he’s become one of the most important players for the Netherlands and Inter Milan, establishing himself as one of the best full-backs in the world today. LIFE COMES FULL CIRCLE ♻️

  Ghana and China are work­ing towards establishing an electric car manufacturing plant in Ghana, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has announced. Speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing China-Africa Summit in Changsha, China with Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister, Mr Ablakwa said the yet to be established company would be anchored on Ghana’s strategic lithium deposits. This strategic move, Mr Ablak­wa said was testament of Ghana’s commitment to supporting the cause of addressing climate change as Lithium is considered the backbone of green energy revolution. With critical minerals a cen­tral issue in the global energy transition, Ghana’s discovery of lithium deposits has brought international attention to Ghana. The Minister of Foreign Affairs who is also the Member of Parliament for North Tongu in the Volta Region, said he and his Chinese counterpart also discussed new industrial projects in line with President John Maha­ma’s vision including exploiting Gh...

  Saudi Sleeping Prince marks 36th birthday. Prince Al-Waleed, a member of the Saudi royal family, has been in a coma since a car accident in 2005 while he was studying. Even though doctors said there was little hope, his father chose to keep him on life support, believing that he might wake up one day. Prince Al-Waleed of Saudi Arabia, known as the ‘Sleeping Prince’, has been in a coma since a 2005 car accident while studying at a military college. Prince Al-Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family widely known as the "Sleeping Prince", marked his 36th birthday on April 18, 2025 Despite medical advice to end life support, his father declined, holding on to hope for recovery. Prince Al-Waleed, the great-grandson of Saudi Arabia's founder King Abdulaziz, continues to receive life support in Riyadh. His family remains hopeful. The Prince remains unaware of the years gone by, tethered to life through machines at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh. D...

  Pope Francis has died, the Vatican has announced in a video statement. The first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died at the age of 88 at 7:35 am (0535 GMT) on Monday 21st April 2025, said Cardinal Kevin Farrell in a statement published by the Vatican on its Telegram channel. Francis had suffered various ailments in his 12 year papacy, with severe complications in recent weeks after a bout of double pneumonia for which he spent five weeks in hospital. His death comes one day after a brief appearance before thousands of Catholic pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square for the Vatican’s open-air Easter Sunday mass.

  When a pregnant woman had her blood sampled back in 1972, doctors discovered it was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time. After 50 years, this strange molecular absence finally led to researchers from the UK and Israel describing a new blood group system in humans. In 2024, the team published their paper on the discovery. "It represents a huge achievement, and the culmination of a long team effort, to finally establish this new blood group system and be able to offer the best care to rare, but important, patients," UK National Health Service hematologist Louise Tilley said last September, after nearly 20 years of personally researching this bloody quirk. While we're all more familiar with the ABO blood group system and the Rh factor (that's the plus or minus part), humans actually have many different blood group systems based on the wide variety of cell-surface proteins and sugars that coat our blood cells. Our...

  Burkina Faso’s President Rejects Democracy as Path to Development Burkina Faso's President, Ibrahim Traoré, has stated that "no country can develop under democracy," arguing instead that his nation is undergoing a "popular, progressive revolution." In his remarks, Traoré questioned the widespread belief that democracy is a prerequisite for development. He emphasized the role of revolutionary change in driving meaningful societal transformation. Under his leadership, Burkina Faso has taken a more self-determined approach to development. Notably, his administration turned down an offer from Saudi Arabia to build mosques, choosing instead to focus on infrastructure projects that directly benefit the population.