Egypt’s Mohamed Salah, Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi, Malawi’s Temwa Chaŵinga and Nigeria’s Chiamaka Nnadozie lead African nominees for this year’s FIFA The Best Football Awards 2025

If the trial goes ahead, it would be a landmark moment for corporate accountability in Africa’s infrastructure sector. The outcome could set a precedent for transparency and business ethics in major international concessions across the continent.

Rights groups say the election was marred by intimidation, arbitrary arrests, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings.

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The Sudanese army says it intercepted drones fired overnight by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on two cities in the country’s northeast.

Prosecutors in Tanzania on Friday charged dozens of people with treason over their alleged roles in violence surrounding the country’s disputed election.

An International Monetary Fund official said its mission to Senegal had concluded without a new lending programme, but that it aimed to finalise one as soon as possible.

Kenya’s government has called on Tanzania to guarantee the safety of its nationals caught in the unrest following last week’s disputed presidential election.

Brazil hopes its flagship Tropical Forests Forever Facility will incentivize 74 forest-rich nations to keep their trees standing, backed by financing from wealthy countries and private investors. President Lula da Silva said the mechanism is expected to become a key outcome of the summit.

A businessman who confessed to being a fixer who delivered bribes to South African government officials, lawmakers and others in a corruption scheme that enraged the nation avoided jail time in a plea deal announced Thursday by state prosecutors.

An increase in armed assaults on vessels off the coast of Somalia have raised fears of a resurgence of maritime insecurity in the region.

Typhoon Kalmaegi hit central Vietnam, causing strong winds and heavy rain. At least five people died, and many are missing. Over a million households faced power outages.

Hannibal Gaddafi has been detained without trial for nearly a decade for allegedly withholding information about the fate of a Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim cleric.

The case is seen as a major test for the ICC as it explores how to advance proceedings in situations where suspects are unlikely to be arrested.

Post-Election Unrest Brings Douala to a Halt while Africa Moves to Close $90bn Annual Infrastructure Gap as Luanda Summit Backs 5% Agenda to Unlock Domestic Capital

In central Philippines, families mourned 188 Typhoon Kalmaegi victims. President Marcos Jr. declared a national emergency with another typhoon approaching.

Days of deadly protests followed the announcement that 92-year-old Paul Biya had won an eighth term in office.

The mass demonstration pushed Spain to hand over control of the disputed territory, paving the way for Morocco’s takeover.

It’s no secret that the Romans liked to build roads. But European researchers say they’ve discovered an extra 100,000 kilometres of Roman road that had been hidden over time, covered by new construction or fallen into disuse.

The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that has been at war with the Sudanese military for over two years, said Thursday it has agreed to a humanitarian truce that was proposed by US-led mediator group, also known as the Quad.

Organizers are hoping this year’s Conference of Parties — known less formally as COP30 — will yield commitments of money and action to support the goals laid out at previous such meetings, billing it as the “Implementation COP.”

The General Conference of UNESCO elected Khaled El-Enany as Director-General of the Organization, with 172 votes out of a total of 174 ballots

Attackers firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades boarded a tanker carrying gasoline off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, authorities said, likely the latest assault by resurgent Somali pirates operating in the region.

Pope Leo XIV met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time on Thursday, and they discussed the urgent need to provide assistance to civilians in Gaza and pursue a two-state solution to end the conflict in the region

Aid organizations say the growing number of displaced families is worsening already dire conditions in the camps, where clean water, food and medical supplies remain critically scarce.

One of two inmates who were mistakenly released early from a London prison surrendered Thursday after waving to reporters and smoking a cigarette on the steps of the Victorian-era lockup.

Tanzania is reeling from violence surrounding elections on Oct. 29 that some international observers say fell short of a free and fair vote.

According to the Afar regional government, TPLF forces allegedly launched heavy-weapon attacks in the Tonsa area of Megale district, targeting pastoralist communities.

FIFA has officially set a new Guinness World Record for the most nationalities participating in a football exhibition match, with 69 nationalities taking part

Tanzanian opposition politician John Heche, vice-chairperson of the CHADEMA party, has been charged with terrorism in the wake of protests over last week’s national election.

Citizens of South Sudan will lose their temporary protected status in January, the US Department of Homeland Security has said in a statement.

Paris Saint-Germain and Morocco right-back Achraf Hakimi must fight against time to recover from his injury before the Africa Cup of Nations, which will take place in his native country.

An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Mauritania and Senegal killed 42 people and infected more than 400 between September 20 and October 30, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the remains were identified as those of Joshua Loitu Mollel and that his family has been notified

Boeing has now resolved the majority of civil lawsuits linked to the two 737 MAX crashes, which together claimed 346 lives. The accidents — the Ethiopian Airlines crash in 2019 and the Lion Air crash in October 2018 — were both tied to a flawed automated flight-control system.

Activists from several environmental organisations called on world leaders to ‘wake up’ to the urgency of the situation.

A so-called supermoon happens when a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit. That makes the moon look up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the faintest moon of the year, according to NASA

“South Africa shouldn’t even be in the G’s anymore, because what’s happened there is bad.”

South Africa says 17 of its citizens who joined mercenary groups in the Russia-Ukraine war have appealed for help from the Donbas region, where fighting continues.

Launched in 2020 by Britain’s Prince William and natural historian David Attenborough, the competition recognises environmental innovators.