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Premier League leaders Arsenal will end their partnership deal with Rwanda at the end of this season, the African country’s development board announced on Wednesday.The Visit Rwanda partnership, signed eight seasons ago, had increasingly come under scrutiny due to spiralling violence in mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which borders Rwanda.The DRC accuses Rwanda of …

Arsenal to end partnership with Visit RwandaWed, 19 Nov 2025 11:01:00 GMT Read More »

The tourist boats that normally ply Kenya’s famed Lake Naivasha have had a different task in recent weeks: evacuating hundreds of flooded homes. Although the lake’s level has been rising for more than a decade and has repeatedly breached its banks, locals in the modest district of Kihoto are still astonished by the scale this year.”It …

Thousands of Kenyans displaced by Lake Naivasha floodingWed, 19 Nov 2025 07:24:40 GMT Read More »

Portuguese-speaking Guinea-Bissau, which heads to the polls Sunday for presidential and legislative elections, is historically one of the most unstable and coup-prone countries in the world.The poor west African nation’s chronic instability has made it vulnerable to corruption and South American drug cartels.- Coups, political instability -Located close to the tip of Africa’s western bulge, …

Guinea-Bissau: coups, cashews, cocaineWed, 19 Nov 2025 06:24:45 GMT Read More »

Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo is confident he will easily win another term as he criss-crosses the country with a signature red and white keffiyeh wrapped around his head, meeting enthusiastic supporters ahead of Sunday’s vote.Embalo is only the second leader since the introduction of a multiparty system in the west African country to see …

Guinea-Bissau’s President Embalo: candidate tipped for second termWed, 19 Nov 2025 06:17:54 GMT Read More »

Guinea-Bissau will elect its next president on Sunday, seeking to turn the page on a tumultuous history of coups and unrest with a vote that nonetheless lacks the country’s main opposition. Some 860,000 voters will choose between 12 candidates, including incumbent President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who is favourite to land a second five-year term.Voters in the …

G.Bissau to choose president, aiming to turn page on troubled pastWed, 19 Nov 2025 06:16:13 GMT Read More »

South Africa will host the G20 summit this weekend, aiming to secure commitments on debt relief for developing countries and to tackle global inequalities as the United States boycotts the event.US President Donald Trump, who has clashed with South Africa over its G20 agenda, is skipping the summit amid a wider US retreat from multilateralism …

South Africa to host G20 summit boycotted by USWed, 19 Nov 2025 03:38:43 GMT Read More »

Nigerian forces hunted Tuesday for armed fighters who abducted 25 schoolgirls in the northwest, in the latest burst of violence seized upon by US President Donald Trump’s followers.The early Monday morning raid on a secondary school in Kebbi State was the latest abduction of schoolchildren in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria, more than a decade after Boko …

Nigeria school kidnapping draws fresh US ireTue, 18 Nov 2025 22:41:13 GMT Read More »

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Tuesday for Sahel nations to put aside their differences to tackle mounting attacks by armed groups in an African region beset by humanitarian crisis.Attacks by Islamist militants and other armed groups are raging across the politically divided Sahel region, which has seen a number of coups in recent years, with juntas …

Sahel nations must unite to contain raging violence: UN chiefTue, 18 Nov 2025 22:30:38 GMT Read More »

Rap icon Nicki Minaj praised Donald Trump’s stand on the persecution of religious minorities on Tuesday, calling for an end to faith-based persecution in Nigeria, which the government there denies.Minaj, of “Starships” and “Super Bass” fame, spoke out at an event hosted by the US embassy to the United Nations and thanked Trump “for prioritizing …

Nicki Minaj stands with Trump on Nigeria religious persecutionTue, 18 Nov 2025 21:14:07 GMT Read More »

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed Tuesday a G20-commissioned report proposing the sale of some of the IMF’s “hoard of gold” and a review of lending practices among measures to tackle Africa’s crippling debt.The proposals were included in an expert study commissioned for the first G20 summit in Africa which will bring around 20 heads …

IMF gold sales among measures to tackle debt, says report for G20Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:44 GMT Read More »