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South Africa coach Hugo Broos on Monday included 17 local-based players in his squad for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) from December 21 in Morocco.    Most of the 24 contenders will rely heavily on footballers based in Europe, with former champions Senegal unlikely to include any from their domestic league.The 73-year-old Belgian tactician …

South Africa coach Broos picks 17 local stars for AFCONMon, 01 Dec 2025 16:30:30 GMT Read More »

More than a week after the mass kidnapping of hundreds of children from a Catholic school, emotions remain raw in the religiously mixed Niger state in central Nigeria.Predominantly Muslim, Niger state has a significant Christian population and followers of the two faiths live side-by-side in harmony. But the November 21 kidnapping of more than 300 schoolchildren …

School kidnapping evokes anger, prayers in religiously mixed NigeriaMon, 01 Dec 2025 14:41:02 GMT Read More »

Britain’s government said Monday it would withdraw its financial support for TotalEnergies’ gas project in Mozambique, which the French group aims to resume after halting it over a jihadist attack.It said it would withhold up to $1.15 billion of funding for the liquified natural gas project (LNG) in the country’s restive northeastern Cabo Delgado province, …

UK withdraws loan for Mozambique gas projectMon, 01 Dec 2025 14:11:16 GMT Read More »

Britain’s government said Monday it would no longer provide TotalEnergies with a loan for a gas project in Mozambique that the French group halted over a jihadist attack.Its decision to withhold up to $1.15 billion of funding for the liquified natural gas project (LNG) comes after a consortium led by TotalEnergies announced in October that …

UK withdraws loan for Mozambique gas projectMon, 01 Dec 2025 12:38:47 GMT Read More »

South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia were to begin on Monday administering a groundbreaking new HIV-prevention injection in the drug’s first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world’s highest HIV burden.Lenacapavir, taken twice a year, has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission by more than 99.9 percent, making it functionally akin to …

Groundbreaking HIV prevention shots to begin in AfricaMon, 01 Dec 2025 11:05:06 GMT Read More »

Growing up, Cyprial dreamed of being a lawyer. Instead, he now spends his days underground, swinging a pickaxe against rock in a pitch-black illegal mine that snakes for kilometres beneath South Africa’s coal heartland.The rumbling of wheelbarrows echoed down the narrow tunnels where he and dozens of other men had been mining since dawn.Some chipped away …

South Africa’s informal miners fight for their future in coal’s twilightMon, 01 Dec 2025 06:21:38 GMT Read More »

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accused the United States late on Sunday of peddling “blatant misinformation” by claiming his country was killing white people.US President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked South Africa since returning to the White House earlier this year, pointing to false claims of “white genocide” of Afrikaners, a minority population descended from …

Ramaphosa labels US attacks on S.Africa ‘misinformation’Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:20:21 GMT Read More »

Armed men have kidnapped 26 people including a pastor and a bride in two separate raids in Nigeria, the latest in a string of mass abductions to rock the west African country.A gang of criminals abducted the clergyman along with 11 worshippers on Sunday after storming an out-of-the-way rural church in Ejiba, in central Nigeria’s …

Pastor, bride among 26 kidnapped as Nigeria reels from raidsSun, 30 Nov 2025 17:19:38 GMT Read More »

Guinea-Bissau’s junta formed a government on Saturday days after taking power in a coup, as ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrived in the Republic of Congo’s capital Brazzaville.The military took control of the Portuguese-speaking nation on Wednesday — a day before the provisional results of national elections were due to be announced — and Embalo …

G.Bissau junta forms government as ousted president lands in BrazzavilleSat, 29 Nov 2025 21:24:39 GMT Read More »

Guinea-Bissau’s ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrived in the Republic of Congo’s capital Brazzaville on Saturday, days after he was overthrown by the military, Congolese government sources told AFP.Meanwhile in the capital Bissau, the west African country’s leading opposition party said its headquarters had been “invaded” by a “heavily armed militia”, in the wake of …

Ousted Guinea-Bissau president arrives in Brazzaville: Congolese sourcesSat, 29 Nov 2025 16:50:32 GMT Read More »