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The Sun
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Who is Alima Gagigo and when is she joining Love Island 2025?
ALIMA Gagigo not only has brains and beauty — she's made the cut for the UK's biggest reality dating show. The Sun exclusively revealed the full line-up for Love Island 2025 — here's everything we know about Alima. 4 Who is Alima Gagigo? Alima Gagigo is a 23-year-old personal banker from Glasgow, who is set to star in Love Island 2025. She graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University with a degree in international business. Alima proudly posted about her achievement online, posing with a bunch of flowers on her graduation day. She also shares images from her holidays around the world on social media, including updates from destinations such as Lisbon, Mykonos and Morocco. One snap shows the rising reality star hanging out at Wayne Lineker 's Ocean Beach Club in Ibiza. She clearly left a good impression on the notorious party animal, who is now following her on Instagram. Alima also loves a trip to London for a bouji dinner and cocktails with pals. As of June 6, 2025, the Barclays employee boasts almost 8,000 Instagram followers — a number that will surely skyrocket during her stint on the show. Speaking about her chances on Love Island, Alima said: "I'm a good flirt. "I always ask guys on a night out to guess which country I'm originally from. Love Island 2025: Top villa snog spots "If they get it right, they can get my number. "But they never guess correctly so it works really well if you don't want to give a guy your number. "I'm originally from Guinea Bissau. If they're close and I really fancy them, I'll give them my number anyway." When is Alima Gagigo Joining Love Island 2025? Premiering at 9pm on Monday, June 9, 2025, Alima is part of the starting cast for the show's 12th season. I always ask guys on a night out to guess which country I'm originally from. If they get it right, they can get my number Love Island 2025 kicks off on ITV2 during the week following the Late May Bank Holiday — one of the show's traditions. Rather than joining later on as a bombshell, Alima is one of the initial batch of Islanders entering the villa at the very start of the season. Maya Jama flew out to Mallorca on May 26, 2025, sharing videos of herself dancing on Instagram along with the caption: 'On holiday until I start Love Island.' The Love Island host spilled the beans about the latest series to her followers on TikTok, saying: "Do I even know who the Islanders are? "Do I know what time and date I'm flying to Mallorca? No, but guess what? "We are so back. We are so f***ing back. I'm really excited, guys. The sun is out!" She added: "Summer Love Island 's about to happen." Maya also said she wants the show to be packed with more 'twists and turns' in the trailer for this year's series. She said: "This year Love Island needs something bigger, something bolder, I want ideas. "This year I want more drama, more bombshells, more break-ups, more makeups. "I want more twists, I want more twists than ever."
Malay Mail
04-06-2025
- Business
- Malay Mail
PM Anwar welcomes Guinea-Bissau's leader for first official visit, explores trade, agricultural cooperation
PUTRAJAYA, June 4 — President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who is on a three-day official visit to Malaysia, was accorded an official welcoming ceremony at the Perdana Putra Complex here today. Embalo, who arrived yesterday, is making his first visit to Malaysia since assuming office in February 2020. Upon his arrival at 9am, he was warmly received by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at the venue. The ceremony began with the playing of the national anthems of Guinea-Bissau and Malaysia. Embalo then inspected a guard of honour mounted by three officers and 103 members of the First Battalion of the Royal Malay Regiment (Ceremonial), led by Major Mohamad Waqiyudin Abd Rahman. Also present were Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof, Transport Minister Anthony Loke, senior government officials and diplomats. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (right) meets with President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo at the Perdana Putra Building today. — Bernama pic Following the ceremonial protocols, President Embalo signed the guest book before proceeding to a bilateral meeting with Anwar, where discussions focused on trade and investment, agriculture, education and capacity building. Both leaders are also expected to exchange views on regional and international issues of mutual interest. Malaysia and Guinea-Bissau established diplomatic relations in November 1974. Bilateral ties between the two nations remain cordial, underpinned by a shared commitment to cooperation on bilateral and multilateral platforms, including the United Nations (UN), the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). In 2024, Malaysia's total trade with Guinea-Bissau amounted to RM4.1 million, with exports to Guinea-Bissau valued at RM4.04 million and imports at RM0.06 million. — Bernama
Khaleej Times
20-05-2025
- Health
- Khaleej Times
Look: UAE to send two shipping containers turned into health clinics to Guinea-Bissau
Two shipping containers converted into mobile clinics in the UAE and will be shipped to Guinea-Bissau this week, a company director told Khaleej Times, in an effort to provide people living in remote places with much-needed health assistance. The clinics were built at Dubai's Jebel Ali port from standard 20ft cargo containers and are fully equipped with medical facilities, according Intertrade International Services (IIS). IIS is the company manufacturing these clinics and it will ship four similar units in total to the West African nation, with the other two manufactured in Europe. The mobile clinic includes everything one would find in a standard facility, with a water purification system, a patient bed, a storage area, and even a hydraulic lift on the side to lift people on wheelchairs. 'These clinics are mobile systems that can go to the people who do not have that opportunity to go,' Gianfranco Esposito, managing director of IIS, said. 'It will be moving in areas where people don't manage to get to hospitals.' He added that the host country, Guinea-Bissau, requested for the clinics via the World Health Organization. The last similar mission by IIS included the delivery of nine medical mobile clinics to Port Sudan, an eastern Sudanese city. They included seven 40ft containers and two 20ft containers which were turned into clinics, with the former accommodating a separate compartment for infants, children, pregnant women, and a medical laboratory clinic. IIS works mainly with the UN to provide humanitarian aid, vehicles, logistics, etc. It has offices in the UAE, Switzerland, and Italy. The mobile was showcased at the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference, a three-day event that took place from April 29 to May 1.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Everton transfer stance on Beto as David Moyes explains chat with striker
David Moyes heaped praise on Beto after the striker scored his tenth goal of the season. The 27-year-old had tears in his eyes after his stoppage time equaliser against the same side earlier this season. It did not prove to be a breakthrough in his campaign as he continued to struggle for minutes under Sean Dyche. The arrival of Moyes in January however, combined with an injury crisis up front, rejuvenated his Blues career and it his goals that pulled Everton away from what threatened to be another chastening survival fight. READ MORE: What Carlos Alcaraz did after hearing Everton away end speaks volumes ahead of seismic summer READ MORE: Everton player ratings as Michael Keane excellent but team-mate gets 9/10 vs Fulham He has continued to score too - his first-time effort at Craven Cottage following his header against Ipswich Town last weekend. Those goals mean only Mo Salah, Alexander Isak and Jean-Philippe Mateta have scored more goals in the Premier League since Moyes' return to Everton. This was Beto's seventh in that time, his eighth in the league overall. Speaking after his heroics in west London, Moyes highlighted the Guinea-Bissau international's importance at the end of a week in which it was claimed newly promoted Leeds United were intent on taking him to Elland Road. Beto holds value for Everton and Moyes, having initially been unconvinced, is well aware of what his goals have meant for the Blues' season. He has ambitions to overhaul the forward department and no-one's position is certain. But the sale of Beto would be a move Everton would be unlikely to countenance - certainly at this stage of the summer - given how important he has been and how difficult his goals may be to replace. It is even more unlikely Moyes would be willing to lose him to a potential rival next season. Moyes said: 'He's a great boy, I've got to say. He practices like you can't believe to try and get better, which when you've got that, you know then you've got something - he's trying to get better. 'He's incredibly humble. He is very honest with himself, which gives a manager a great chance to try to improve you. "So I have to say he's doing great. He's got eight Premier League goals. 'I sort of said to him a couple of weeks ago, I said, 'look, you might try and get 10'. If you think that he has not really played that much, he's only really come on the scene in January, so if he could get another two between now and the end of the season, it would have been a great run of goals for him in the second half of the season.'
New York Times
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Small West African Country Has Big Artistic Dreams
Starting an art biennale in a small country with virtually no galleries and no art schools — not even a formal shop to frame paintings and photographs — could have seemed impossible, the stuff only of dreams. But that's exactly what a group of five artists from Guinea-Bissau, a nation of just over two million people in West Africa, decided to do. They could no longer sit 'with their arms crossed and do nothing,' about what they saw as a dire gap in their country's art infrastructure, said Nu Barreto, the visual and plastic arts curator of the country's first biennale, MoAC Biss. The biennale is designed in part to create more opportunities for local artists, who have few current ways to display their work: at an outdoor artisanal market, or at internationally funded venues such as the Centro Cultural Franco-Bissau-Guineense. MoAC Biss, which began May 1 and runs through May 31 in Bissau, the capital city, features some 150 artists, from 17 countries. The event was designed to cover more disciplines than just visual arts. 'We know what the challenges are for the writers, painters, artists and theaters and dancers, and that's why we said, OK we are starting with five,' Barreto said. The biennale's vibrant opening night concluded with a concert by the Bissau-Guinean band Furkuntunda, who had not played live for 18 years. Welket Bungué, the performing arts and moving images curator, called the performance 'cathartic.' The group was brought together by Karyna Gomes, the music coordinator, who joined the group onstage to sing to a theater so packed that people were seating in the aisles. That the biennale was even opening was something of a feat, because it had lost more than half of its funding three weeks earlier when government upheavals in Portugal and Brazil — countries that had pledged support — caused funding to dry up. Then a nationwide blackout in Spain and Portugal delayed the arrival of one of the theater troupes. The irony of political instability and power outages — problems that coup-prone Guinea-Bissau is usually better known for than its European counterparts — did not escape the organizers. 'It's not just us who have challenges,' said Antonio Spencer Embaló, the conferences and public policies curator. 'This type of thinking is important for people here to understand as well — that everyone has difficulties.' In the biennale's main visual arts space, two semi-expressionist tableaus by the Guadeloupean artist Jean-Marc Hunt are some of the first art to greet visitors. They are part of Hunt's Jardin Créole series, a celebration of gardens where traditions are transmitted, daily needs are met, and overconsumption is discouraged; they serve as a stark contrast to the former use of the space as a timber mill factory. Next to Hunt's work is 'Big Kaombo,' by the Angolan artist Evan Claver: an installation created with bright yellow plastic jerrycans and painted with loudly shining black oil paint. One side depicts a group of young people waiting for visa applications at embassies; the other side shows the Statue of Liberty. 'In Angola, the young people are trying to emigrate a lot. And in the capital, outside the embassies are full of young people trying to get visas to leave the country and searching for new opportunities,' Claver said, adding that his playful work aims to poke fun at serious issues and encourage the youth to reflect on their choices. 'I think emigration is not the answer. America has a lot of issues, too.' Both Claver and Hunt were in Guinea-Bissau for the first time. 'Biennales nowadays are major meeting points,' said César Schofield Cardoso, an artist from Cape Verde who is showing 'Blue Womb,' a collection of cyanotypes, photographs, sound and video. 'They play a big role in cultural exchange, and Guinea-Bissau is such a rich country in terms of culture and creativity, but it's not well known.' Though its population is small, Guinea-Bissau has at least 33 ethnic groups, each with its own dances, its own ways of singing, its own ways to mourn, Embaló said. It is also one of the least developed countries in the world, with a life expectancy of just 64, according to the World Bank, and the curators believe that art can be a tool for development. Culture and art 'feed our soul,' Embaló said. 'It is true that people have to work very hard to get things that feed their body, but what feeds our soul is fundamental for us all to stand tall.' He said that curators want the biennale to be a living, breathing presence in the city even when the event is over. Construction is underway at the factory compound for areas that will serve as artists' studios for residencies. The spaces will also be available to local designers, like the Bissau-Guinean designer and painter Thyra Correia, who is showing furniture and lighting design at the biennale. The pieces are from her collection called Tchon, a Guinea-Bissau Creole word that means land, but equally means home in the Bissau-Guinean context. Correia works with local materials and local artisans to create her designs. Craft workers 'are everywhere' in Guinea-Bissau, she said. 'It is possible to make stuff in the most humble and pure way. I think this work has the responsibility to show people that we can have beautiful things, contemporary things, being produced here.' The organizers intentionally scheduled MoAC Biss in an off year from the Dakar Biennale, in Senegal. Ousseynou Wade, the longtime director of the Dakar Biennale, attended the Bissau biennale and said the two events confront two different realities. 'They have different relations with the government,' he said. 'The Dakar Biennale was an initiative of the government. This in Bissau was an initiative of independent will.' The Guinea-Bissau biennale this year had no government funding from the Guinea-Bissau state. 'This is important, not just only for Guinea-Bissau, but it's important in the geography of arts on the African continent, so that the areas on the continent develop,' Wade added. Biennales, he noted, can help break language and culture barriers. 'We have to knock down these borders, and Africa in all its diversity, can gather regularly in these spaces,' he said.
